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Improving agility is a top priority for European SME leaders seeking to take advantage of a digitally empowered workplace according to a new study.

Businesses rates, VAT and corporation tax are levies most likely to prevent small business growth with the average UK small business spending £5,000 and three working weeks every year on tax compliance, according to a new report.

Do It Digital, an independent not-for-profit campaign, has delivered on its pledge to help one million of the UK’s small business owners with their digital skills.

The taxman’s treatment of the self-employed has been thrust into the spotlight again as a former BBC presenter has been told to pay back hundreds of thousands of pounds to HMRC.

Small businesses for the East of England are on the rise, with latest figures from the Office for National Statistics showing some 45,400 new businesses that have been set up by entrepreneurs across the East.

Fitness entrepreneur Robert Parker has said he is not worried by Brexit after seeing export growth at a business he set up in a spare bedroom rocket by 50 per cent since the vote to leave.

Employees across the UK are spending over one million hours a week looking for misplaced documents at work, costing businesses around £20 million a year, a new study released today has revealed.

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One in ten of UK employees would be willing to leave their current careers if flexible working was offered elsewhere, research commissioned by direct selling company Vorwerk has revealed

Business leaders reach the top aged just 39, according to new research

With job vacancies at a record high, new analysis reveals Britain’s 20 most undersubscribed roles

Parts of the UK that backed a Leave vote would face the heaviest hit as a result of Brexit, according to estimates by government officials.

More than a third plan to work well into their seventies with one in ten saying they will never be able to retire.

The average cost of renting a home is now rising across every UK region for the first time in almost two years, according to the latest Landbay Rental Index.

Royal Bank of Scotland has denied an MP’s allegation that its executives misled a parliamentary committee over the extent to which the bank mistreated small businesses during and after the financial crisis.