Posts tagged "Finance"

Getting Finance

After making an assessment of your options, you have now finally made a decision to purchase a business. With the status of our economy today, more often than not, owning your own business is a much more reliable way of getting financial stability as compared to just being an employee. One of the most common questions related to purchasing a business is about getting the needed financial resources to invest into a business.

It might be quite hard to imagine, but there are many people who are very determined to purchase a business despite their financial limitations or inability to borrow money. These individuals visit banks and other lending firms with the idea that borrowing money is as simple as requesting for it. Problem is, this is not the way banks and other financial institutions lend credit for the purpose of buying a particular business, even if evidence shows that it is very profitable. This is one risk that they are usually not willing to take.  Read more...

Cyprus ICIS structures offer best solution for raising finance

The International Collective Investment Schemes (ICIS) or in layman’s terms, Private Funds, are probably one of the best vehicles through which promoters may raise money from up to 100 investors worldwide and at the same time offer such investors a great deal of protection, with respect to safety of assets, valuations and that the company is operating under EU laws.

Cyprus is increasingly becoming a popular base where many ICIS formations are structured, since it has the unique advantage of providing an EU framework combined with all the tax advantages as well as very competitive rates.

The most popular ICIS structures made from Cyprus are the variable capital ones, whereby when there is demand from investors to subscribe to the shares or units, the capital increases as the new shares/units are issued, and when investors exit the company, the shares/units are canceled.

The original shareholders have the added advantage of subscribing to voting shares, while offering non-voting shares to new investors.

As stated previously, the only limitation of an ICIS is that it can only raise money from up to 100 investors. Once it passes the 100 mark, then it is treated like a public fund and has to go through a different registration and management process.  Read more...

Chattel Mortgage- Business Car Finance

A Chattel Mortgage is basically a standard mortgage against the vehicles and is offered for businesses looking forward to obtain a car, primarily for company use. This agreement gives the benefits to its consumers, by taking possession of the commercial vehicles, cars and other business equipment at the very time of the acquisition. This kind of agreement is different from a Commercial Hire Purchase where the financier sustains possession of the vehicle, until all payments have been made.

Benefits of making use of chattel mortgage:

It provides tax benefits to companys that make use of the cash accounting method.

The interest rate on a chattel mortgage is predetermined, so you never have to be troubled regarding rate rises. This agreement is flexible as, you can set your deposit, reimbursement and balloon payments that go well with your cash flow.

A chattel mortgage can also be reimbursed, prior to, the end of the term.

Depending on the lenders consent, 100% of the purchase cost of a car can be financed via a chattel mortgage.

No GST is charged on the monthly payment.

If the car is utilized for business reasons, interest compensated on the chattel mortgage with depreciation, can be tax deductible  Read more...

Lease Management – The Simple Yet Effective Solution to Finance Vehicles

With the intensive knowledge gained throughout the years, Lease Management has been able to sustain its stand for distributing vehicles of all type for all business and private individuals with different demands on variety of situations. They have been able to maintain extreme competitive price and measure up to a remarkable standard for 30 years. Among the acclaimed quality and services, of Lease Management is the finance, which has been known for the adaptable, consistent and reasonable solution to ones exceptional needs.

Lease management offers solutions of all kind so that everyone can enjoy financing their own vehicle. There are various options like contract hire, personal contract hire, maintenance, contract purchase and personal contract purchase.

With contract hire the company allows their vehicles to be rented with a fixed monthly rate for an amount of time planned beforehand.

The company holds the right of possession the entire time period, reducing administrative burden. The same goes for personal contract hire which is designed to provide enjoyment and usage of the vehicle without the usual issues of ownership, however unfortunately, being a private individual this is a cost which has to be paid, but it’s not reclaimable.  Read more...