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Before selling a business you may have plans to expand it, here are some tips for getting support from business investors.

1. Your presentation doesn’t have to be perfect, just make sure it is captivating enough to keep the investors attention. Be clear on what you want to say, it will be a stronger story.

2. Once you have finished explaining your business and have answered any questions, remain alert until you have said… Continue reading

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I had some correspondence this week from a chap who owns a debt collection agency and is looking to buy small businesses in order to expand.

Having found something he liked up in Scotland, he asked for advice in valuing the business as he had no idea whether the price being asked was too much, or a good deal.

The information he provided on the business is as follows:

Turnover is: £70000
Outgoings from… Continue reading

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Don’t think that Alistair’s partial u-turn on CGT means that small businesses are being treated well by this government.

In each of the last three budgets, the government has steadily added to the tax burden of small businesses, and lightened the load on larger corporations. Take a look at this illustration:

Profit (net and pre-tax): £11,000

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Alistair Darling, the UK chancellor has finally made up his mind on the new capital gains tax regime due to take effect after April 5th this year, and announced a major concession for owners of small businesses.

Any business owner making a profit of one million pounds or less on the sale of his or her business will only be liable for CGT at 10%, rather than at the previously proposed… Continue reading

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News, views, tips and advice from the publishers of BizSale, the UK’s leading listing of small businesses for sale.

On the back of many requests from our BizSale subscribers, we finally got around to launching our business blog. So hello everyone!

We decided on using Wordpress as the platform, as it is the most popular and seems to have many useful plug-ins. Anyone have experience of the various blogging platforms?… Continue reading

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