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The formation of a company in the United Kingdom is not a difficult process if you are prepared for all costs involved. As long as you are aware of the financial requirements, then at least you can concentrate on selling your product or service. Detailed below are some main factors that need to be considered during that initial start-up process.

Business Registration / Licensing – The first stage of setting up a business in the U.K is to register the company name. It is relatively cheap to register a business name with Company House, from as little as £20 in fact, or even if you require, £50 for a same-day service. You must also bear in mind what services you will be offering or products you will be selling as there will most certainly be licenses needed in many cases. For example, if you are looking to open a bar or restaurant, then you must obtain proper licenses to sell or serve alcohol.

Tangible And Intangible Items – It is also very important to consider exactly how much it will cost you to physically set up your company. Will you be trading solely online, or within a bricks and mortar type shop in a high street? With an online shop or service, you need to find out the costs of things such as computers, printers, web-domain/server registration costs, stock and web design. Concerning a ‘bricks and mortar’ shop, there are many more costs involved; these costs will range from shop fitting, telephone/internet service set-up, safety features such as fire extinguishers and CCTV, stock, cash registers, and lighting.

Overheads – Monthly and annual overheads will be a large factor in determining the sales price of any products and/or services that you offer. Whilst also taking into account such costs as internet and telephone bills, and water and electricity bills; you must also be very aware of the rent or mortgage you will be paying, as that will most likely be your largest monthly expense.

Marketing – Marketing costs vary greatly depending on the medium that you are looking to utilize. Whereas leaflets, for example, are cheap to print, they are also much less effective than, for example, newspaper or magazine advertisements. When forming a company, it is important for most business types to let the public know you exist. Word of mouth can work in some situations but not all, and certainly not if you are looking to greatly increase your exposure in a short space of time.

You must also bear in mind other costs such as accounting costs (if you will not be working out national insurance contributions and pay as you earn tax payments yourself), business tax, merchant banking costs and, most importantly, the cost of human resources.

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