Start the Year with Growth Not a Tax Payment
Wednesday, January 5th, 2011It’s the start of the year again when Value Added Tax eats into your business plans for the next 12 months. Do not let VAT slow your plans for growth. Business loans can be utilised to retain a business’ profits for driving marketing and other growth strategies by spreading out the tax bill throughout the year and the cost of doing so can be more than paid back by growing profits. The question then is what type of company loan do you need and what source should you get it from?
The common perception now is that business finance has become more difficult to obtain since the credit crunch. This is right and banks are promoting secured business loans and reducing the number of unsecured business loans they are issuing. If you don’t want to secure the loan on your residential property then you should put yourself in the best position to get an unsecured loan.
A repayment loan will allow you to pay back the loan on a monthly basis so you pay less and less in interest as the loan matures. On the other hand, you can delay the whole tax bill with a bullet loan but this will not help your cashflow and could compound the problem next year. This adds to the cost as well.
Don’t be put off by the perception of difficult access to finance. Give yourself the best opportunity by providing your bank statements, invoices and management accounts for financiers. This will help you access affordable unsecured business loans. You should also look for new alternatives such as peer to peer lending for firms as the costs are more reasonable than banks for unsecured loans.
New alternatives such as the peer to peer lending players also restrict themselves to creditworthy firms as they protect their private lenders. If you are accepted then you can get easy access to a low cost unsecured monthly repayment loan. The best advice is to get a range of quotes and choose the best one for you.