Plan Your Cash Position for Growth
As the new year starts firms should be planning for growth irrelevant of whether they have a value added tax bill due next month. Your growth shouldn’t be slowed down by VAT. Small business loans can be taken out to spread the payment across the year and you can use today’s cashflow to drive growth. The question then is which form of business funding is best for you?
Small business owners should target an unsecured business loan. This is the best way to smooth your cashflow without the need to put any charges on your home. Banks have reduced the number of unsecured business loans they offer since the start of the financial crisis in place of secured loans.
Paying your loan back with a monthly schedule is the best way to spread your profits and means you pay less interest as the outstanding loan amount diminishes during the lifetime of the loan. On the other hand, you can delay the total tax bill with a bullet loan but this will not help your cashflow and could complicate the problem next year. Bullet loans are more costly over the course of the loan as well.
Accessing loans may take time but make sure you give it a go from a range of alternatives including banks and social lending companies. To get a loan from any option at a healthy rate will need your business to demonstrate a healthy cash position. Give yourself the best chance of success by providing up to date performance figures.
Unsecured loans from social lending sites are often cheaper but conversely they are limited to robust firms. Try to avoid invoice finance or factoring as this can be a very expensive way of smoothing your tax bill over the longer term.