Robert Sherwood, who had qualified as a Chartered Accountant many years ago, joined the Direct Selling industry back in 1993 first as a distributor. 4 years later he was running an organisation of 4,000 downline based throughought Europe, but also realised that one of the major challenges in the industry had never been properly addressed.

Whilst every other aspect of building a successful Direct Selling business was catered for within corporate or distributor led trainings, there was no specialist help or advice for preparing accounts and income tax returns, both of which are real headaches to most Direct Sellers. In 1997 Rob approached the Direct Selling Association, got their full support and launched DSL…the rest as they say is history.

In the last 10 years DSL has helped over 2000 distributors to concentrate their time on building businesses leaving DSL to deal with the taxman, and has developed new products to make life so much easier for their clients. These achievements have been fully recognised by the DSA who have awarded DSL 3 times for their contribution to the industry.

One particular figure which stands out is the total amount of tax refunds they have reclaimed for distributors in their early years. Using their knowledge of available expense claims and tax regulations applicable to Direct Selling, DSL has so far recovered over £6 Million, money to be reinvested to promote further growth.

DSL offers a key supporting role to the would be successful Direct Seller. One of the major bugbears to any new or emerging business is the time and effort spent in keeping accounts and preparing the annual tax return. It is even enough to bring a business to a full stop!

With DSL a distributor can shed this responsibility and concentrate full time on acquiring customers and building an organisation….all that is required at the beginning is an annual “shoebox” full of bills and receipts and DSL does the rest turning this, as if by magic, into a tax refund!

How much is this worth? OVER £6 MILLION SO FAR, so if you are just starting your Network Marketing career read on and learn how you can get your own fair share.

As you climb the ladder and begin to earn serious money, DSL continues to provide support not only through processing your accounts but also by marketing its own simple software which really keeps you up to date and tracks your income and expenditure on a monthly basis. This is an option you can choose if you want.

And then, when you have reached the top levels, DSL’s new role is to mitigate your tax liabilities, introducing you to tax saving ideas including Limited Companies and also coping with the extra responsibility of VAT.