News Friday, 3 September 2010
“Merchant Cash Advances” are unsecured and proving popular
9 Jul 2010 If you are looking to raise from £3,500 up to £150,000 for your business to for example to refurbish, buy out a partner, purchase stock, pay a tax bill, marketing and advertising bills or wages Merchant Cash Advances are a fast flexible way to do it which are proving popular.
AMAZON.CO.UK Launches Online Grocery Store Business
9 Jul 2010 New Grocery store offers free delivery on thousands of great value household, niche, ethnic and international products.
2011 – VAT to increase to 20%
6 Jul 2010 George Osborne delivered his Budget report speech on 22 June 2010 and announced that the VAT rate will move upwards.
Councils and businesses to rebalance local economy RDA’s scrapped – 29 June 2010
1 Jul 2010 The Government set out plans for local enterprise partnerships that will bring together councils and business on an equal footing with one voice, replacing the current Regional Development Agencies (RDAs).
£1 billion fund to help regional business
1 Jul 2010 Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg today launched a £1 billion Regional Growth Fund to help areas and communities at risk of being particularly affected by public spending cuts. The fund, which will operate in 2011/2012 and 2012/2013 will help areas most dependent on public sector employment as the country makes the transition to private sector-led growth and prosperity. Both private bodies and public-private partnerships will be able to bid for funding by demonstrating that their proposal will bring in private investment and support sustainable increases in private sector jobs and growth in their area.
Call to arms in battle against red tape
1 Jul 2010 The Government has issued a call to arms against pointless regulation and unnecessary bureaucracy, launching a new Your Freedom website at www.hmg.gov.uk/yourfreedom . The site asks the public how they want the Government to redress the balance between the citizen and the state.
Late payments ‘hurting small and medium-sized firms’
15 Apr 2010 The cheque is in the post… or is it?
Answered: Your Top Questions about Invoice Finance
14 Apr 2010 Invoice discounting is a quick and cheap form of finance, but many businesses still have questions about how it works. To help you get a good deal from your factoring, here are the answers to your top questions…
Surviving the recession cost UK entrepreneurs £16 billion in personal savings
14 Apr 2010 London, UK (30 March 2010) – Entrepreneurs have pumped in up to £16 billion* of their own personal savings to get their businesses through the last year, making this the UK’s ‘piggybank recession’, according to new research released today.
Paying too much tax
13 Mar 2010 If an employee believes they are paying too much tax, you need to refer them to the Tax Office. Although you are informed of the PAYE tax code they are on, you are not informed why and how that tax code is allocated. That is information the Tax Office will only discuss with the individual employee.
HMRC – getting tough on time-to-pay and compliance
26 Nov 2009 Not only has HMRC’s stance on time-to-pay hardened considerably since the summer, it appears that a parallel strategy of prevention has been adopted to make the escalation of VAT and PAYE/NI substantially more difficult in the future.
Lord Sugar live at the Hilton Manchester
3 Nov 2009 Earlier this year Lord Sugar, Alan Sugar, was appointed to the position of ‘Enterprise Champion’ to the Government, a position from which he is using his wealth of experience in business to advise the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) on its work in helping businesses.
