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7 things you can do to perk up your on-page SEO

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Originally written by Anna Jordan on Small Business
Everything counts when you’re setting out your webpages – on page and off. How you build and create your website, pages and blogs can help search engines to understand your content to improve your rankings. This is referred to as your on-page SEO, and we’re going to look at this area of search engine optimisation in today’s article.
What is on-page SEO? What’s the difference between on-page and off-page SEO?
It is as it sounds: the SEO credentials that will appear on your webpage. On-page SEO refers to both content and HTML source code on a page whereas off-page SEO refers to external links, backlinks and social media.
Factors affecting the success of your on-page SEO are changing all of the time so it’s a good idea to keep up to date with what’s happening. SearchEngineJournal has a full history of Google algorithm updates.
Now we’ll guide you through some of the vitals of on-page SEO and a few examples to make things clearer.
1. Build internal links
External links count as off-page SEO but internal links count towards your SEO too.
Having lots of relevant and useful links to other content on your site will bump you up in

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VAT on taxi fares, vehicles, fuel and staff travel – what can I claim?

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Originally written by Ben Lobel on Small Business
Small business owners often have a tough time navigating tax and what expenses they can claim VAT on.
Let’s start with Taxi fares. Zero rating of domestic passenger transport does not apply if the vehicle is designed to carry fewer than ten passengers.
Taxi and hire car fares are therefore, standard rated and if the business provider is registrable for VAT, it must charge VAT to customers.
Extra charges for baggage, waiting time, etc are also standard rated as are referral fees from other taxi businesses.
Tips and gratuities given voluntarily are not payment for supplies and are outside the scope of VAT. VAT due is calculated by multiplying the fares, including extras, by the VAT fraction.
Registered persons (such as a standard rated Taxi driver) must issue a VAT invoice to any customer who asks for one.

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If the taxi is VAT registered they should issue you with a receipt which includes the VAT registration number, the date and the amount of the fare which will enable you to reclaim the VAT as Input VAT (the VAT added to the price when you purchase goods or services

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