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.
Small Business Insurance
Businesses forced to add data-loss cover on top of buildings insurance
Insurers fear IT outages from fire and flood could be so expensive they exclude computers from buildings policies
News
Hike corporation tax to cut business rates, urge retail bosses
Retail bosses to call on government to increase corporation tax to 21% to slash business rates by £6bn
Accounting
Sajid Javid may guillotine, not scrap, Entrepreneurs’ Relief
Chancellor mulls keeping on Entrepreneurs’ Relief for existing businesses, but abolishing it for start-ups
Small Business Banking
Barclays launches largest ever loan cashback scheme for SMEs
The cashback scheme for term loans is part of a much larger fund launched by Barclays to help SMEs through and beyond Brexit.
Tax
Amazon warns small business will pay price for Digital Services Tax
Internet giant could pass cost of 2% digital tax imposed by Conservative government onto small business, just as it has done in France
Setting up a company
Company formations rise by 3% in 2019 hitting 681,704
Five tech start-ups launch per hour as business formations reach new record in 2019
Accounting
Small businesses spend hour and a half each day chasing late payments
UK SMEs are owed more than £50bn of late payments between them as big companies put off settling invoices
International Business
What the UK can learn from Estonia as the destination to start a business
The UK lies in 17th place as a country that incubates entrepreneurs. What can Britain learn from No 1-ranked Estonia as a place to launch a start-up?
News
Reading has potential to be UK’s top entrepreneur hotspot
UK economy would be lifted by £34bn a year if towns and cities put focus on adopting technology to support start-ups and scale-ups, says report
Accounting
Freelancers call government 6-week review into IR35 ‘an insult’
Government confirms review into controversial IR35 tax changes, which will drag thousands of freelance contractors into PAYE
News
Small businesses applaud Conservative business reform pledges
Small businesses and larger company directors both give thumbs-up to new Government's pledges to upgrade infrastructure and reform business rates
Business management
Cricket legend Andrew Strauss: 5 tips to boost your business performance
Andrew Strauss, former England cricket captain, shares his 5 tips to boost your small business performance – learnt from sportsmen performing at the highest level
