Most small businesses can ignore this one. But if you make, import, warehouse or sell vaping products in the UK, HMRC has just opened the approval process for a new duty regime that could become…
Patent news is easy to ignore if your business is not inventing anything new. But for product startups, engineering firms, design-led manufacturers, specialist software businesses and smaller companies hoping to protect an idea before pitching…
Late payment is one of those small-business problems that can quietly turn a decent trading month into a cashflow headache. So a new figure from the Small Business Commissioner is worth noticing: the office says…
The CMA says it will investigate Microsoft’s business software ecosystem and is pushing Microsoft and Amazon on cloud switching barriers. For UK small businesses, the practical issue is not Westminster process but whether your contracts, data and AI tools are about to become harder or easier to move.
A new government-backed push to keep more people in work is gathering pace across the UK, and small employers should pay attention even if the first wave is full of big names. The latest update…
A fresh procurement push in England will not put a public-sector contract on anyone’s desk overnight. But for small growers, wholesalers, caterers and local food producers, it is one of the clearer signals in a…
Welsh Labour says it would freeze Welsh income tax rates in the next Senedd term if it wins May’s election. For many small business owners, that may sound like background politics. It is not a…
Weekend jobs used to be a fairly normal way into work for teenagers. For many small firms, they were also a useful way to cover busy shifts, build a future staff pipeline and bring in…
UK shoppers are getting more cautious again, and that matters for the smaller firms that rely on everyday discretionary spending. GfK’s Consumer Confidence Barometer fell two points to -21 in March, while expectations for the…
HMRC has updated two key Making Tax Digital for Income Tax publications just over a week before the new regime starts for the first group of taxpayers. On the surface, the 27 March changes look…