Essential information at your fingertips

Our site is updated with new business articles every working day, but as well as up-to-the-minute news, we have hundreds and hundreds of high quality, easy-to-access permanent pages of relevant content. Specific areas include:

1 Tax Centre

A comprehensive guide to your personal and business tax planning, including…

  • Budget Report – available by 9am the day after the Budget
  • Our Year End Tax Guide – ensuring your taxes have beenminimised
  • Up-to-date Tax Rates, data and allowances
  • Pre Budget Report, usually announced in November Tax Tips
  • Frequently Asked Questions

2 Business Guides

An extensive area comprising over 50 essential Business Guides, a full list of which is attached. Areas covered include:

2.1 Business start-up

Starting in business? Then this area will provide advice and guidance, although you will also find essential industry specific assistance in Online Services section.

2.2 Business general

Dedicated business guides, including 'Should You Form a Limited Company'?

2.3 Limited companies

Should you pay a bonus or declare a dividend?  What are the changes in taper relief and capital gains tax?  See this area for an overview and analysis.

2.4 Partnerships

Specific guides relating to partnership law and tax matters.

2.5 IR35

Although the IR35 rules have been with us for some time,
this is a valuable overview of the key aspects of this controversial legislation.

2.6 Business management

A large resource of great management advice, from forming a limited company to increasing your bottom line.

2.7 PAYE and national insurance

Strategies for saving tax and making the most of your money.

2.8 VAT

All the facts and figures, dos and don'ts, and how to survive the law enforcement powers.

3 Personal Guides

Reliable information on personal tax planning and savings, including the Children's Tax Credit, self-assessment, stakeholder pensions and much more.

4 Search: Your gateway to the web

Our comprehensive search facility makes the site a great portal to the web.

We have three levels of search engine:

Search this site – enter key words to find the relevant information within the vast resources on our own website

Search the web – use the Google search engine or Yahoo! index to locate information on the whole web

Local Area Search Engine – limit your search to our carefully-chosen but wide-ranging list of relevant websites

So even if the information you want is not on our site, we give you the tools to find it. We offer a great starting point for searching the web – making our site the ideal Homepage.

5 Links

Our website also provides a huge directory of essential business web links, arranged in topics including management, e-commerce, regulatory guidance and best practice. We have taken the hard work out of finding websites for you and your business. We have identified over 48 categories of website and within each are relevant websites. In total we include 600 websites that are content-rich and will provide a useful starting point for research and information.

6 Online Services

We offer a variety of useful online services, with new ones in the pipeline. Current facilities include:

6.1 ICC Company Information searches

Company financial reports – Detailed financial reports on all 1.5 million "live" companies in the UK - your clients can retrieve credit reports in seconds.

Director reports – Reports on over 8 million directors - your clients can find out who are the directors of any company.

Images from Companies House – Images (in PDF format) of over 20 million imaged documents from Companies House: annual returns, change of directors, they're all there.

  • Free to Search
  • No Setup Charges
  • No Monthly Charges
  • 20,000 New Documents Added Daily
  • 4 Million Businesses Reports Charged on a Transaction Basis
  • At a Glance Risk Scores
  • Purchase Order or Credit Card Payment

6.2 Key Note Marketing Reports

As a businessperson, we know you will find these Reports essential reading.

Key Note is the number one source of UK market information, producing highly respected off-the-shelf publications which cover a comprehensive range of market sectors, from commercial and industrial to service and consumer titles.
A selection of these reports are available now and can be purchased using Pay-Per-View.

You may view the full report index and Executive Summaries before buying. The material provides an excellent searchable reference source which is regularly updated. The Reports provide practical reference for keeping up to date on market and Industry developments.

The Key Note range comprises over 200 current titles with around twelve new or updated titles produced per month. The reports are split into the following chapters:

  • Executive Summary
  • Buying Behaviour
  • Market Definition
  • Outside Suppliers to the Industry
  • Market Size
  • Industry Background
  • Current Issues
  • Forecasts
  • Competitor Analysis
  • SWOT Analysis
  • Company Profiles
  • Further Sources

Reports are updated every twelve to eighteen months, depending on the type of industry. Some reports are written in response to particular market conditions and may be one-offs, whereas others will be produced regularly year on year.

7 Our website

Our website is here to serve you and your business

We regard our site as a great online extension of our services to you, and we hope you find it useful, informative and interesting. However, we appreciate that there is always room for improvement, so if you have any feedback or ideas about what you would like to see on the site, please let us know.

There is a large quantity of information on www.woolford.co.uk  that will be applicable to you or your business, but there really is no substitute for personal advice. So if you want to discuss how we can help you in your specific circumstances, please contact us.

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