About
Tim Adler is group editor of Small Business, Growth Business and Information Age. He is a former commissioning editor at the Daily Telegraph, who has written for the Financial Times, The Times and the Daily Telegraph. He is the author of three nonfiction books, the most recent of which was reviewed by The Sunday Times as “compulsively readable” and by the Daily Mail as “dazzling”.
Since becoming editor of Small Business in 2019, the website was named alongside the BBC, the Guardian and the Telegraph as a top live blog covering the coronavirus pandemic by journalist trade magazine Press Gazette.
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Government ‘should write off’ £1.7bn of Covid loan debt
Thousands of small business shopkeepers face collapse because of soaring debt levels incurred during the pandemic
News
20% of business workers self-isolating due to Covid
One in five small business workers self-isolate having been pinged by NHS test-and-trace app, forcing businesses to shut
Alternative finance
Pitalia Capital to invest £50m in small businesses
Equity fund can invest up to £10m each in growth capital for early stage businesses or management buyouts for mid-sized firms.
News
Future of small business is local, personal and about data
Data and working from home are going to transform small businesses, and the SME owner-director needs to be ahead of that curve
Success stories
Winning the Start-Up Series – Mathew Norbury, FC Labs
Wearable brain imaging technology tells you when your alertness is dropping and it’s time to take a break. Think of it as PPE for mental performance
Accounting
What is the Valuation Office Agency? A guide for small business
What is the Valuation Office Agency (VOA) and how does it go about calculating your business rates? What happens if you disagree with the VOA rateable value calculation?
Accounting
How can I reduce my business rates in England? A small business guide
Some small businesses can pay heavily discounted business rates or even reduce them to zero. Read on to see if your small business is exempt from business rates
Accounting
Do I need to pay business rates working from home?
Nearly half of the workforce was working from home at the height of Covid. But do you need to pay business rates if you’re working from home?
Accounting
HMRC to go easy on small business strangled with Covid debt
Kwasi Kwarteng, the business secretary, says HMRC will not press businesses to pay overdue tax immediately if they’re struggling with coronavirus-related debt
News
Brexit puts more than third of UK small businesses at risk of closure
More than two fifths of UK SMEs claim that Brexit will or already has resulted in redundancies
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Landlords blocked from evicting small businesses for another nine months
Government blocks landlords from evicting small businesses for non payment of rent due to Covid-19 until March 2022
