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The key factors in deciding how to set up a UK business will be your commercial objectives, the likely scale of your proposed franchising activities, tax issues and whether you intend to set up business yourself, whether from your overseas base or through a UK subsidiary or through a UK master franchisee or master developer
Having decided to set up business in the UK, you have to decide whether to:-
- set up on your own
- establish a strategic alliance (by way of joint venture with or by appointment of a master franchisee or master developer).
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- International Franchise Expansion from the UK
- Direct Franchising in the UK
- Branch/Subsidiary Franchising in the UK
- Joint Venture
- Master franchise and master development agreement
- Basic Information about the UK for non-UK Franchisors
- Your Options
- Setting Up
- Tax Issues
- What are the relative tax advantages of a representative office, a branch and a subsidiary?
- Registration of Overseas Companies
- Setting up a UK Subsidiary – Specific Issues
- Directors duties and responsabilities
- Administration and records
- Joint Ventures and Partnerships
- People
- Property
- Protecting your Intellectual Property
- Profit: Dealing with Tax Issues
- Problem Solving
- Regulation of Franchising
- The British Franchise Association
- Competition Law
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