Partner Article

Making it easier to manage

By Colin Grimston of Business Link

Making sure that your business is complying with regulations and meeting tax deadlines is a key responsibility of management. However, sometimes it is difficult to keep track of changing legal requirements and identifying those that apply to your business and require action.

Business Link’s My Business function is an on-line support service to make it easier to stay informed, keep up-to-date and manage your responsibilities.

Available at www.businesslink.gov.uk/northeast the service invites entrepreneurs to create a personal profile by answering a number of questions about their businesses. My Business uses these profiles to identify laws, regulations, licences and permits which apply to you.

Businesses can save and update their profile to ensure that the information they receive through My Business is relevant and up-to-date.

Registering with My Business also enables businesses to access Government Gateway, which allows businesses to communicate and make transactions with Government from a single point of entry.

Businesses can use Government Gateway to enrol for one or more Government service, including self assessment, PAYE internet services for employers and electronic VAT returns.

My Business also provides companies with a wide range of business support information and advice on subjects including employing people, international trade, starting up and the environment.

It includes on-line tools to help businesses create a written statement of employment, covering terms and conditions which you legally have to give to an employee and a guide to good health and safety practice. Partially completed tools can be saved for completion at a later date.

Business Link’s substantial team of expert brokers operate across the region in local access points and on a mobile basis. For further information about Business Link visit www.businesslink.gov.uk/northeast or call 0845 600 9 006.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .