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There’s some Positive news for the UK economy from the British Chambers of Commerce, with their quarterly business survey suggesting the economy grew by 0.6% in the second quarter of 2013.
The rise in confidence is partly driven by export sales, which hit their highest level since the survey began in 1989. Employment balances also rose following a decline in the previous quarter, with +19% of manufacturing companies creating new jobs. The service employment balance (which incorporates financial and accounting roles) rose nine points, to +15%, the best level since the first quarter of 2008, while the service employment expectations balance rose 11 points, to +22%, the best since the final quarter of 2007.
“The improvement in most key balances in quarter two, building on the upturn recorded in the first quarter, supports our view that the UK economy is slowly strengthening,” said British Chambers of Commerce chief economist, David Kern. “If recent progress can be sustained, there are realistic hopes that growth forecasts will be revised up further.”
And although businesses are feeling positive, that doesn’t seem to be translating to their balance sheets: cash-flow balances in both sectors are weak, increasing by just two points to +4% in manufacturing, and falling by five points to +1% in the services sector.
“We’ve certainly seen a slight increase in confidence in the market, and a steady upturn in Accountancy Vacancies in Norfolk across all levels since the Spring,” said Big Sky Additions’ directorJustin Murray. “As a result, we have welcomed Tina Maguire to our recruitment team to ensure that we can continue to cope with rising demand for our Accountancy Recruitment services and maintain our one to one style of working to deliver exceptional customer service to all of our clients,” he added. “Tina’s extensive local business network cements our position in the Norfolk and Norwich jobs market by ensuring that we continue to be knowledgeable about all movements and developments.”
For further information and support in your financial and accountancy recruitment please call Justin on 01603 516230
Many people would be forgiven for thinking that HR’s role was only concerned with ensuring administrative processes work smoothly and employee relation issues are managed appropriately. All in accordance with complex and continually changing employment legislative requirements.
HR’s role however, is ultimately focussed upon the on-going development of the organisation to support the delivery of the business plan. The most successful organisations recognise the importance of progressive people practices that touch all aspects of their operation. An HR professional’s role is therefore a varied one operating at both a strategic and operational level. The three most important stakeholders of the HR function are usually senior managers, line managers and employees.
Establishing and implementing an HR strategy centred upon the employee is essential to their engagement and productivity level. By building two-way relationships with their employees, organisations can truly listen and understand what motivates them. By strategically planning how an organisation will meet its current and future people needs and aligning this with individual employee development plans, is critical for organisational success, productivity and the career and engagement level of the employee. To help achieve this, HR’s role to coach and mentor line managers has never been more important, helping them to improve their leadership and softer management skills – which are often the hardest to develop.
It has also never been more important for HR professionals to provide challenges to senior managers. Particularly in relation to the values and culture of the workplace – a key driver of employee engagement. Effective company values will always trump company strategy. Putting people practices in place, that encourage internal behaviours that mirror your organisation’s external behaviours, is critical to creating an effective employer brand and ensuring your business stays ahead of the curve.
If you would like to discuss how ChamberHR can assist your business in staying ahead of the curve with HR, call 01455 852037.
The amount of Duty paid is dependent on three things;
What the product is/is made of Classification Where the product is made Origin How much it costs Valuation
If the goods you purchase originate (are made) outside the EU whether you import them directly or indirectly they will be subjected to import duty.
Duty is usually charged as a % rate based on the cost of importing the item
Duty Rates vary dependant on the type of good being imported i.e. the product Classification
The amount of duty paid can also vary dependant on the origin of the goods. Some Countries have agreements with the EU which give them preferential i.e. reduced or even zero duty rates
HMRC can go back 3 years to reclaim duty underpayments
HMRC can charge penalties for errors that are found on a per instance basis
Once goods have been imported into the UK and the customs duty VAT paid those goods are deemed to be ‘in free circulation’. This means that they can move freely throughout the EU member states without incurring any further duty charges. This rules excludes excise goods which are subject to additional in-country excise-tax when entering another member state.
Norwich based company Liquid11 continues investing heavily in the region with the ground work commencing on six new starter units in Oulton Broad, near Lowestoft. The new units are aimed at start-ups and small businesses and will offer a modern and safe place to work or store materials. Sally Harding, Liquid11’s Business Development officer said: ‘despite Brexit fears, we feel the UK is a nation of small businesses that constantly innovate, our units will appeal to new companies and existing small business. With good access to North Lowestoft and the train station, we think it’s an excellent location and are excited to see what new buiness we will meet over the coming months’.
Liquid11 also entered into a partnership with local construction company, Mattoms Builders to build 6 new executive homes in Gt Yarmouth which will represent around 2% of the new homes needed to support plans for the town. Pat Cullumbine the director for Mattoms builders said ‘our region is crying out for new homes and whilst there is a buoyant market in mass build homes by existing large scale developers, there is a gap in the market for traditionally built, high spec homes for management and executives moving to our region, our homes will help to fill this gap.
Local councils and planning authorities are supportive of smaller builders and have been helpful in making this and other smaller developments possible in the town.
The Liquid11 group employs around 50 people in the region and typically a further 15 contractors are employed at any given time. Their total investment over the last 12 months in new projects has been circa £3,000,000. The technology focused company continues to grow despite the economic uncertainty.
With three new products launched in the last 12 months the outlook for 2018 is positive for the company.
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) statistics reveal that companies in the East of England accounted for 10% of 22,445 research and development tax credits claims in the tax year 2014-15, with HMRC paying back £250m to companies in the region, out of £2.45bn of tax relief paid out nationwide.
But tax specialist Jumpstart says that many small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are still unaware they could claim back thousands in Corporation Tax from the Government.
The firm says the figures show that the East is lagging behind other regions in terms of the increase in claims by SMEs over the last five years. Since 2010, the amounts claimed by SMEs in the East have increased by 198%, compared with 438% in the North East at 438% and 364% in London.
Chapter 64 of the UK Trade Tariff is where you will find nearly 90 commodity codes used on the import or export offootwearin the UK.
Classification is aone of the 3 key elements whichdefine the amount of duty that is paid on import and as footwear attracts duty rates between 5 & 17%getting it wrong could prove costly.
Applying the correct commodity code requires a greater understanding of the article of footwear. In order to confirm an accurate classification you will need to knowwhat materialit is made from, who will be wearing it, whether the shoe is for use in sportwhether it is, a wellington, a flip flop, or wornfor health & safety purposes.Tthe height of a heel and length of sole are also determining factors in shoe classification& whether the item covers the ankle or knee or whether if it is used for sport.
All of this can be daunting for the fist time importer or the seasoned professional so we at IEShave designed a tool to assist you with the classification of footwear and where the classification is still unclear (which can happen for new innovativefootwear designs) we can then assist with the submission of a Binding Tariff Infromation sheet to HMRC which will give you a decision as to the classification of the footwear.
For starters, you might look a little confused whilst you make sure that you are in fact in the right log file, but then you knuckle down and find out what the issue is and how you can fix it.
I was faced with the above problem very recently and I can tell you, it’s a bit of a pain to solve sometimes. To add a bit of context, a client sent us an email saying that they had tried to run a piece of functionality on some software we are developing for them and had been given the typical “Sorry, an error has occurred” message on their page. That’s okay, in development sometimes bugs come up that we need to fix. I take a stroll into the server logs, expecting to see the error and have a quick fix for it. What do I find? Nothing, actually. Nothing that relates to the error, anyway. Rewind back to the first section of this post about looking a little confused for a while, that was me.
After realising that I probably wasn’t going to get anywhere looking at the server logs, I decided to fire up a development instance of the project, retrace the steps the client made and find the error message there instead. Because of the UI not being completely finished, it took quite some time to follow the steps (as it is a case of clicking checkboxes and adding values to arrays, more on that later) but alas, I got to the stage of being ready to submit the form. I hit submit, and the age old error message pops up. This time, however, we get the error message in the log. Progress.
Looking at the error message, I see that it is complaining about the index of my array of data. Any time the index goes over 256, the error is thrown (I had to check this by assuring 255 values went into the array first, then 256, then 257. It took time.).
So after discovering the problem, a quick Google Search and a StackOverflow question lead me to a quick solution to my problems. It turns out that Spring (view my other post about Spring and Spring Boothere) sets the default max index of an array to 256 and to override this, you need to add in a short function. Seems easy enough, and it was actually. A few lines of code and another test of the functionality and it just worked.
After celebrating my victory of conquering the error with no output, I realised that this problem was probably the same problem we were having with another system we were creating. This too had a large array of values that we were trying to create.
I confirmed the error message was the same, added in the same function that had fixed my first problem, tested it and found that it too had been fixed.
After feeling like I had accomplished greatness, I checked in my changes and went on my merry way. In the process, I learned that through a bit of trial and error, you can often find solutions to even the strangest of problems. You might even hit two birds with one stone.
We are excited to be working with Western Circle, technology & data oriented lending company. The company develops and integrates technologies to enable affordable loans online under FCA regulation. The technologies faciliated include underwriting expert systems, online loan intelligence analytic and proactive compliance management systems.
WCL has already helped over 4,000 people in the UK alone to obtain affordable loans online, through the use of pay-per-click advertising (PPC) and search engine optimisation (SEO).
Our contact at Western Circle explained: “We are using our technology to faciliate easy quick loans whilst maintaining transparency and compliance in a very competitive industry. The power of our technology is to assign the user’s details with the best financial product for them, giving them the highest chance of approval and keeping their data and security safe.”
Our Contribution
We have been assisting Western Circle through traditional online marketing methods. This includes conducting keyword research to find hundreds and thousands of long-tail key phrases that they can target through PPC and SEO and we have helped them create content for these pages too, optimised with meta-data, headings, keywords, internal links, images and more.
Trying to get up the search results for online finance products is always challenging so keeping content clean and consistent (never duplicated) and using clean link building techniques is helping achieve our goals. This means not using directories, paid submissions or reciprocal links (I link to you and you link to me strategies).
We are now helping the company maintain a strong position in the market, especially with upcoming changes in data protection (GDPR). We must ensure that the site is fully compliant and has clear details of what data can be stored and how it is used for each individual customer.
When the weather turns to temperatures like we are currently experiencing, it will drive rodents into buildings such as sheds, factories, schools, workshops, houses and garages. You name it and they will find a way in. This week is ‘Pest Awareness Week’ and it was reported by the British Pest Control Authority (BPCA) that the insurance sector has estimated rodent damage to wiring is responsible for 25% of all electrical fires in buildings. If this is not a big enough concern on its own, think about the opportunity you will give them to share your food stocks, probably without you even noticing it. Make sure you check for all entry points, broken drain covers, poorly maintained brickwork and get the maintenance completed. When the thaw arrives over the next few days we will be inundated with a surge of calls and the Abate team will be ready with all hands-on deck. For Health & Safety reasons for all Abate staff, they have been told to stay at home for the third day running, but will be ready when needed? Abate Pest Management from Morley near Wymondham, delivers rodent control, insect control, bird proofing projects, woodworm treatment and specialist hygiene services to commercial and domestic customers throughout Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Herts and Beds. They offer free surveys and can be contacted at www.abateltd.co.uk or by calling 0800 980 9767.
We talk to hundreds of local business owners every day; we hear their concerns, understand their challenges and share in their successes.
One common conversation is that, in the digital age, advertising is complicated and it can be hard to see any return on investment.
Some concerning research shows that 46% of business owners don’t actually know if their marketing strategies work – and that is a worrying point.
The ad industry has tried to solve this challenge by creating lots of new products.
The small business owner can now buy an ad in the newspaper, on a website, a newsletter and even an app for almost every newspaper that exists… but how does the business owner understand if any of it works?
It’s as if the ad industry has become so inured to the idea of technology, tools and twiddly buttons that we have somewhat forgotten what ‘advertising’ and ‘marketing’ are for.
The fact that businesses want customers, and advertising that delivers measurable effect is a challenge that our industry is now coming to terms with.
Advertising is now at a sort of crossroads and the advertising industry is starting to take its head from the sand and choosing a direction.
Here at Archant we have launched Local Impact, created to deliver the small business owner insight into the digital and traditional advertising market, advice and support to build a marketing strategy and products and services designed to best enable a business to sell its product or service.
We aim to support the business owners with advice, practical help and products that deliver a measurable effect.
As Local Impact grows I will share what we are doing, how it is working and deliver as much practical advice and help as I can in 350 words.
If any of you have questions or topics that you would like discussed do get in touch. My email is always on and I almost always read it…
Landlords and tenants quite frequently enter into side letters (supplemental to the lease) to reflect particular arrangements between them. Side letters can include rent concessions where the landlord might, for example, agree to accept a lower rent than that specified in the lease. It is relatively common practice for a landlord to specify in such a case that if the tenant breaches a condition of the concession or a term of the lease then the concession given to the tenant will be cancelled. The property industry was taken by surprise recently in a case concerning a concessionary rent where the tenant was late in paying an instalment. In that case the Court decided that the landlord’s attempt to bring the concession to an end (so as to revert to the higher rent referred to in the lease) was void on the basis that it amounted to a “penalty”. The Court referred to a recent decision of the Supreme Court which reviewed the law relating to penalties. Previously, a penalty might broadly have been described as a payment specified as being due by a party in breach of contract which was not a genuine pre-estimate of the innocent party’s loss arising as a result of the breach. The decision of the Supreme Court suggests that rather than being focused on whether a sum payable on breach is a genuine pre-estimate of loss (i.e. a liquidated damages clause), there is now a more general test as to whether the sum or remedy stipulated as a result of breach of contract is exorbitant or unreasonable in the circumstances. Against this background, one can understand that if a side letter states that a remedy for the landlord following a breach by the tenant is to cancel the concession itself then the tenant might seek to argue that the remedy is exorbitant or unconscionable. The law remains complex and each individual case will depend, amongst other things, on how the individual side letter is drafted and construed. The reality, however, is that a landlord will no longer have the guaranteed ability to cancel a concession or other term of a side letter in the tenant’s favour purely because the side letter states that such remedy is available to the landlord.Landlords must be mindful of this when negotiating any side letters which include concessions.