News

Changes on way for employee share schemes
07 February 2014

​HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has announced changes to the way that new and existing employee share schemes and arrangements are administered.
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Trade drive targets mid-sized businesses
03 February 2014

​Every mid-sized business in the country is to be offered tailored trade advice and an intensive support programme to help them start exporting or break into new markets.
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PM urges small firms to make most of support
03 February 2014

Prime Minister David Cameron has urged the UK’s 4.9 million small businesses to take advantage of measures that could save them up to £10,000 each a year.
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From Autumn Statement to winter payment: SMEs set to profit in 2014
08 January 2014

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) featured heavily in Chancellor George Osborne’s Autumn Statement on December 5, namely the much welcomed announcement of a business rates cap and tailored tax reliefs to small firms.
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Start-ups made easier as restrictive names list is reduced
08 January 2014

​A third of a list of ‘sensitive’ start-up business names that otherwise would have been subject to approval before official registration has been cut by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS).
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Electronic prompt issued from HMRC to help employers with PAYE
08 January 2014

​A friendly online reminder designed to help employers keep up to date with their Pay-As-You-Earn (PAYE) has been introduced by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC). The electronic message informs the employer that they have not sent one or more of the Full Payment Submissions (FPS) that were expected for the last month. Acting as a prompt, it plainly states that an FPS is due each time their employees are paid.
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Self-assessment faces paperless future
08 January 2014

​Self-Assessment (SA) is set to be transferred completely online in a bid to make the process easier for the individual, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has announced.
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How accountants can set start-ups off on the right foot
08 January 2014

​According to research carried out by the ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants), the majority of start-up SMEs (small to medium-sized enterprises) do not seek professional financial advice in favour of cutting costs and doing it themselves. However, in the midst of a turbulent economy, accountants can be the nurturers start-ups need to grow.
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Over 2 million people say “I’m in” to automatic enrolment!
08 January 2014

​The automatic enrolment scheme, devised to ensure people have a better chance at a comfortable retirement by saving into a workplace pension has seen great success, as the Pensions Regulator announce over two million people have opted in to automatic enrolment.
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10,000 and counting: New entrepreneurs receive the ‘get up and go’ from Start Up Loans
11 December 2013

​Since its launch earlier this year, the new-business aid scheme, Start Up Loans has recently celebrated the transaction of its 10,000th loan, which was awarded to Cornish entrepreneur, Allen Martin to help him initiate his new business providing online help for landlords.
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