The latest news affecting small and medium sized (SME) businesses in the UK
The digital services tax has reaped almost £360m from US tech giants including Amazon, Google and Apple in its first year, raising more from most of…
Rail passengers will face further disruption across Britain at Christmas after the RMT union announced a series of 48-hour strikes in December and January.
Shell has warned it could ditch its pledge to invest £25bn in the UK’s energy sector, after Chancellor Jeremy Hunt beefed up the windfall tax last…
Only one in seven deals on Black Friday offers a genuine discount, with the vast majority of promotions cheaper or the same price in the six…
Fears of tougher restrictions have reignited across China today, after the country recorded its first Covid-19 death in six months.
The appetite for UK bonds has staged a tentative recovery in the weeks since Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget caused investors to dump gilts at the fastest rate…
The Bank of England has delayed plans to move hundreds of staff from London to Leeds as the wider economic turmoil slows the institution’s plans to…
Major ports and airports are set to be disrupted by strikes over the Christmas period.
Almost seventy per cent of manufacturing decision makers agree that their sustainability strategy has been restricted due to cost pressures.
Twitter stands a 50% chance of a major outage that could take the site offline during the World Cup, according to a recently departed employee with…
Rail cancellations have reached their highest level on record with more than 314,000 trains fully or partly cancelled across the UK in a year.
The hospitality sector is buckling from a “toxic mix” of headwinds as higher labour and energy costs combined with a slowdown in consumer spending lead to…
Rishi Sunak will be told by business leaders today to increase migration to tackle “vast” labour shortages and avoid a “dormant economic decade”.
The former Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley has taken over the Coventry Building Society Arena after buying its three operating companies.
Thousands of shops, pubs and restaurants are in line for £14 billion in relief aimed at countering next year’s rise in business rates, but the government…