ALIEXPRESS DROPSHIPPING GUIDE

If you wish to do an e-commerce business where you don’t have to worry about inventory or shipping issues, then dropshipping is the best way to go.

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Dropshipping is a straightforward business where you can list the products for online sales and send an email to ask your supplier to directly despatch the product to the customer on your behalf whenever you get the order. It is as simple as that.

Dropshipping may appear to be the easiest way to start an online business on e-commerce sites, but you may find it challenging to search for dependable suppliers. You may have to dig deeper online to find such reliable suppliers. You can choose from millions of items for online sales from the AliExpress site for your dropshipping business.

WHAT IS ALIEXPRESS?

AliExpress is a huge e-commerce portal where you have a choice for millions of different products. The suppliers of these products offer competitive prices on AliExpress because most of them manufacture their products overseas. You can get all the products under one roof. The range of products on AliExpress has a wide variety, including women’s clothing, electronic items, jewelry, home and so on. If you have already decided to sell products through e-commerce, AliExpress is an excellent source for supplying a comprehensive range of products.

WHAT IS ALIEXPRESS DROPSHIPPING?

If you wish to do an online business where you don’t want to worry about inventory or shipping problems, then AliExpress can help find the products you want to sell on your e-store. You can choose the product you wish to sell from the AliExpress site and add them to your store. You are free to decide your sales price by adding your profit margin. As soon as you receive an order, AliExpress immediately despatches the product to your customers, and you will only pay the wholesale price for that product.

WHY ALIEXPRESS FOR DROPSHIPPING? AliExpress can also work as an online retailer, but most sellers on this platform know very well that many of their customers are resellers. Those resellers want to sell products through dropshipping. Secondly, the dropshipping business is relatively more straightforward through the AliExpress platform. Since it does not charge you anything upfront, you can take a calculated risk by choosing any products. The financial commitment, in that case, will not be significant. You can start the dropshipping business today itself with only a view clicks through Oberlo. It helps you quickly find the products you want to sell and add them to your online store.

ACCOUNTING SERVICES FOR DROPSHIPPING

Any company engaged in the online sales of products which is a registered limited company needs accounting services as follows: abbreviated accounting and statutory accounting for the company.

Corporation tax including CT 600

The statement regarding compliance with payroll and pension requirements

A self-assessment return for Director’s tax

Filing of VAT returns along with bookkeeping every quarter

Statement of confirmation

TIPS ON CLAIMING ALLOWABLE EXPENSES FOR E-COMMERCE BUSINESS

Please find below a few of the top tips to claim the expenses incurred for an online e-commerce business:

You should ensure to maintain a proper record of all the costs incurred in the e-commerce business.

You can claim the expenses of hiring a professional accountant or using accounting software as a business expense in these three categories: Tax preparation expenses, tax filing expenses, and accounting expenses.

The claim of travel expenses includes the costs incurred by either the business owner or its staff to travel for sourcing products or deliver the products to the post office or the courier office.

You can include courier charges and taxes for your sales in the shipping cost.

You can claim internet service expenses, computer systems, stationery expenses, furniture, and other such expenses as office expenses.

In the manufacturing of products, you may include all the expenses to manufacture, e.g., raw material, tools, and cost of other supplies.

If you use some portion of your house exclusively as a home office, you can claim a deduction for the home office.

The business owner can also claim damaged or returned products as expenses. For this purpose, the owner needs to maintain the records of opening and closing stocks for the financial year.

The expenses also include e-commerce charges, bank charges, PayPal fee, postage expenses, and reselling related costs

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ACCOUNTING SERVICES FOR WRITERS AND AUTHORS,  self employed.

We have specialist accountants who can submit accounts for writers and authors to HMRC. We provide accounting services for full-time writers and even for occasional writers. We do our best to learn about their account status and optimize their tax liabilities.

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The foremost question to answer is whether you are employed or not. You are most probably self-employed if you are not working for publishers or news companies directly.

Our tax experts team will find out whether they can consider your income from self-employment as a trading income or not. The team handles your account directly to ensure that if any tax payment is due. They pay due taxes two times in a year by choosing the self-assessment system of tax payments.

In case you work as a writer or author for an employer, our team ensures that your employer correctly deducts taxes at the source. Moreover, if you have several income sources, our tax experts help you in declaring them correctly.

If you handle many contracts in the UK and abroad, we depute a dedicated accountant to manage the accounting activities. The team also ensures two essential things: secure payment of due taxes by optimizing the tax payments and ultimately ensuring that you comply with the taxation laws. Nobody would ever like to get into HMRC investigation problems. However, it is quite possible to put yourself into trouble because the UK taxation laws are too complicated. We work intending to provide peace of mind to our clients.

HOW TO WORK OUT YOUR TAXES?

If you are working as a writer, you may have several income sources. They may include the income from writing books or writing ad-hoc articles, or even copywriting, and we account for all of those income sources. It is vital to understand that HMRC wants to classify taxpayers rightly as employed or self-employed. Our tax experts help you register in the correct category since HMRC has clearly defined the precise rules to determine the right position.

In rare cases, some writers and authors fall under the category of “Reserved Trading Income Status,” which they earlier referred to as “Reserved Schedule D Status.” They will be deemed self-employed and will continue to be taxed accordingly to discharge tax payments properly by ensuring no possibility of any employment break.

THE ALLOWABLE EXPENSES FOR WRITERS AND AUTHORS TO CLAIM?

An Expense refers to something essential to operate the business. Below is a list of allowable tax deductions for writers and authors from their tax liabilities.

* · MARKETING COSTS – Business cards, reprints of your work
* · WEBSITE COSTS – Hosting a website and maintaining it to promote your working
* · TRAVELING EXPENSES – Train tickets, petrol costs, etc
* · ACCOMMODATION – Hotel expenses for overnight stays for business purposes
* · COMPUTING EQUIPMENT – Laptops, printers, and editing software
* · INSURANCE FOR THE ABOVE COMPUTING EQUIPMENT – To protect your livelihood
* · COMMISSIONS – Fees paid to literary agents

For a self-employed person who works from home, we can suggest to include household expenses which you can attribute to your business. Those costs include fees for heating, phone service charges, a room used as your office, etc.

DOUBLE TAXATION AGREEMENTS

The UK government has double taxation agreements with several other countries. As a taxpayer, it is your responsibility to optimize the taxes payable in those countries. We provide guidance and assistance to authors and writers for avoiding double taxation. If you do not prevent or reduce your taxes in time, HMRC can refuse to give any relief later. Our expert team ensures that such a situation never arises.

If the other country does not fall under the double taxation ambit, we suggest you ensure full compliance and thereby help you avoid excess tax payments.

THE COMMON PITFALLS

Taxpayers usually make a common mistake of showing income net of VAT or any commission to agents. It is a wring practice. You should always declare gross income and show such commission and VAT expenses separately and claim as a deduction from such income.

Last year, we detected a new type of problem of new cash basis. HMRC referred to it as simplified expenses. If you opt for this, you cannot set-off losses against other income and limit some claims to costs. The earning basis provides more flexibility, which implies that you declare the income as earned instead of received and declare the costs as incurred instead of paid.