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The Forum of Private Business (FPB) have met HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) during the last few days to highlight its concerns about the administrative burdens…
I recently visited a growing IT business in the M5 corridor – that hot bed of entrepreneurial IT businesses. During my conversation the MD described how they…
A Government Minister has described 2012 as the most important year since 1908, it will change the financial landscape in this country forever. No, not the…
Commercial bank managers have long complained that it is much easier for clients to get unsecured loans personally, where no evidence is required as to how…
The Forum of Private Business (FPB) is welcoming the Payments Council’s new National Payments Plan, announced this week, in which it agrees not to phase out…
I see a lot of businesses that are very busy but they just aren’t making any money. Let me give you a recent example of a…
In a competitive world where costs are key to success, employee retention plays a vital part. Long serving employees save on recruitment costs and the training…
Any item for sale benefits from quality presentation, whether it be a bottle of perfume or a three piece lounge suite. Businesses are no different. An…
Banks and building societies are reporting an expected cut in the amount of secured lending they will offer after the Bank of England admitted the credit…
With spring time now officially upon us and a new tax year started, there has never been a better time for small businesses to spend some…
Insolvency practitioners are warning that banks are forcing entrepreneurs and family-run firms to take second mortgages on their homes and offer personal guarantees before agreeing to…
Remember the boom in stockmarket flotations, at the end of the last century and the start of this one? That was the time when companies came…
As a result of a recent legal case, businesses which have had VAT claims restricted to only three years, or have not made claims believing they…
There are a whole number of reason for stopping a business. I've frequently heard Directors say 'if only I'd sold the business five years ago, we…
It is one of life’s certainties that life is full of uncertainties and business life in particular has a habit of presenting us with all kinds…