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Business Growing Pains: The Money Bin

30 March 2017

Eight years and nearly eight successful self-assessment tax returns. I'll admit, it was a bit of a learning curve to start with. The terminology alone used by the HMRC is a hurdle the size of Everest. The text may as well have been hieroglyphics to any self-respecting new…

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Business Growing Pains Prologue

27 March 2017

There's no doubt in my mind that starting my own business was the right move for me after an eight-year stint selling asparagus to upper-class Sainsbury's customers. I loved my time there, but it just didn't utilise my skillset. In fact it leaned quite heavily upon putting me…

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