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Summer 2012
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Top five digital PR tips for hotels
Facebook. Twitter. Reviews. YouTube. And the rest. The internet and social media have transformed how hotels communicate with its customers. But tread carefully! Moore and Smalley asked Emma Booth, a digital PR specialist at Lancashire marketing communications consultancy, Freshfield, to give her top five tips to make your social media strategy a winning one. 1. [...]
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Colin Johnson
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Advice for Tourism and Leisure businesses
On May 3 2012
Compulsory submission of VAT returns online
From 1 April 2012, all remaining VAT-registered businesses – those registered for VAT before 1 April 2010 with a VAT-exclusive turnover of less than £100,000 – will also have to submit VAT returns online and pay any VAT due electronically. Most of our clients have actually been quite positive about filing returns online as they [...]
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Colin Johnson
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Advice for Businesses, Tax
On March 22 2012
Budget 2012: Could a reduction in VAT rate benefit tourism businesses?
Colin Johnson, corporate services director at Moore and Smalley, and head of the firm’s leisure and tourism team in Kendal, on the need to support the tourism sector. There have been well publicised calls for the rate of VAT on tourism-related activity to be cut to five per cent in line with many other European [...]
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Colin Johnson
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Advice for Businesses, Advice for Tourism and Leisure businesses, The Budget
On March 16 2012
Should there be a reduced rate of VAT for tourism related businesses?
Tourism and business leaders in our region are calling for the Government to get in line with other EU countries and drastically cut the rate of VAT on the tourism industry. They argue that although every business sector would get a boost from a general cut in VAT, a new rate of 5% for the [...]
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Colin Johnson
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Advice for Tourism and Leisure businesses
On February 2 2012
