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.

Tax

Self-employed should pay equal tax with employees, says top thinktank

Government loses £15bn a year tax revenue from self-employed, says IFS, which urges wholesale reform of tax system

Government Grants

MPs give taxman six weeks to sort out Covid payments for freelancers

Over 500,000 freelancers wait to see if they will be included in final round of self-employment Covid-19 grant.

News

Big companies must pay small business suppliers within 30 days

Companies will have to pay 95% of small businesses within 30 days, down from 60 days

Business management

What are the benefits of agile working? – a small business guide

A blended office environment with a mixture of physical desk space and working from home is seen as the future of work. Here are the pros and cons of agile working

Podcasts

Gerald Ratner: ‘I don’t think it’s right that there’s such a stigma attached to failure. It’s a British disease’

In this episode of Small Business Snippets, Tim Adler meets Gerald Ratner, an author, motivational speaker and businessman

News

Taxman gives self-employed more time to file your tax return

HMRC to waive penalties for self-employed who file 2019-20 tax return late due to Covid-19

News

Quarter of a million small businesses set to fold without more Covid help

5% of small businesses say they will go out of businesses this year without more coronavirus financial support

News

Which small businesses can stay open in national lockdown?

Find out which small businesses can still stay open despite different national lockdown restrictions in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

News

£9000 lockdown grant for businesses in retail, hospitality and leisure

Government announces £4.6bn in new lockdown grants to support small businesses in retail, leisure and hospitality

Starting a Business

One in five Brits say they want to start a business in 2021

Only 6% of those surveyed say that have been pushed into working for themselves after losing their job

News

Free start-up checklist

As we enter 2021, many of us will be thinking of going into business for ourselves. Use this free 20-point start-up checklist for launching your own business

News

Businesses ‘crippled’ by Tier 4 call for more government help

Retail alone facing £2bn in lost sales each week as tough Tier 4 restrictions are imposed across London and South East