Conservatives want you to start a business from home
by Chris Dawson
So you run an eBay business but you live in a council or housing association house. Your tenancy forbids you from running a business at home, or possibly even if you own your house the deeds forbid you from running a business from home.
In the past most online start ups have simply ignored the tenancy agreement, but you do run the risk of at best having to close your business down or find new premises and at worst being kicked out of your house ,if your neighbours complain.
Now David Cameron, the potential next Prime Minister has promised to change this. Emma at Enterprise Nation quotes Cameron as saying it “May sound like a small thing but I think it’s actually significant – a huge number of small businesses are started in people’s homes. But do you know what? Many social landlords forbid you to run a business from your home. We’re going to change that as well in discussion with social landlords.”
Bravo Cameron – now show that you really understand the needs of small businesses by simplifying and reducing the burden of taxation.
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pre election tripe
saying it and doing it are miles apart
I dont like paying tax, though I dont feel its that bad for small business,
what bemuses me is that
nurses ,doctors, ambulance, police, firemen, pay any at all
…dustmen are just if not more important to society…everyone should pay tax.
yep dustmen are just as important too
but I dont fancy an enema from any of them
…but I dont fancy an enema from any of them
…That statement implies that there are a group of people that you DO fancy an enema from…
“what bemuses me is that nurses, doctors, ambulance, police, firemen, pay any at all”
And if they didn’t just think how many less of those nurses, doctors, ambulance, police, firemen, there would be.
Council tax suppliments fire and police services …..
just think how many more of those nurses, doctors, ambulance, police, firemen there would be
because they would feel valued and rewarded not TAXED and want the job
reduce politicians and the legal professions salary and expenses .to a reasonable level
to help pay for it ,not to mention the financial sector
Taking away the barriers to people working from home sounds commendable. However, you wouldn’t find it so commendable if the neighbour was a mechanic with a dozen cars up and down the street; or some role which involved “noise”.
I followed these comments with interest!
And then came to Antony’s comment. Understand your point entirely but what we’re seeing is a significant increase in ‘quiet’ businesses based from home – online businesses selling goods or people running professional service businesses. They’re doing it from home and not dirturbing the neighbours but they are contributing to the economy which is why it’s spot-on for David Cameron to be expressing support for the sector.
Lots more to be done to encourage everyone with a business idea to get started but the tories do seem to be making the right noises.
Thanks, Tamebay, for highlighting the point.
Emma
Is that to say that this should only apply to quiet businesses? I think Steves point is very valid…
…I think it’s great that people decide to work for themselves, so long as it doesn’t have a negative impact on my life.
The point I was making is it sounds great …. If the business doesn’t impinge on the neighbours. But car mechanics etc aren’t going to be happy if the “law” suddenly became selective and it only applied to “certain” types of business.
If this is going to happen (and I doubt it, politicians are all hot air after all) it has to be done RIGHT.Where I lived in Birmingham one of my neighbours (4 or 5 doors down from me) was a mechanice and despite being 4 doors down blocked up half the street, mad a racket and made the place look like a mess.
Lets not get carried away.
This is a sound bite and has no meat attached at this stage.
This info has been in the public domain for years and Cameron is referring to a report made by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation in 2002.
http://www.jrf.org.uk/publications/social-tenants-access-home-working-opportunities
Apart from the actual conditions set by the RSL’s (and these may also be conditions set by the actual owners of a private development, there are a myriad of other restrictions on home working which apply to everyone regardless of the type or ownership of the property.
Some of these conditons are there to protect the community as a whole. There are planning considerations, insurance considerations and rating considerations.
In the same interview with Andrew Marr, Cameron also says and I quote “…But this is an indication of how far from spewing out commitments and being loose with our language or anything else, we are being very disciplined.”
I think the opening quote will prove to be extremely loose.