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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Retailers call for Chancellor to fix ‘broken business rates system’
Fifty retailers call for Chancellor Sajid Javid to freeze increases in business rates to help reform 'broken business rates system'
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Michael Gove orders taxman to help small business if there’s no deal
Michael Gove, the cabinet minister in charge of no-deal planning, says HMRC has been told not to pressure SMEs when it comes to paying tax if it comes to no deal
Accounting
Crunch to roll out accountancy on its new freelance bookkeeping network
Crunch, the Brighton-based digital accountancy platform, plans to add freelance accountants to its new self-employed bookkeeper service
Small Business Banking
Exclusive – B-North to open national small business bank by end-2020
B-North plans to open network of eight branches across England, combining face-to-face lending with cutting-edge technology
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Whitehall fails its own test, rewarding outsourcers who pay SMEs late
Outsourcers who fail to pay small business on time could be barred from Government contracts. But Whitehall has form when it comes to ignoring its own test, according to research
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Small business will be especially badly hit by no deal, warns CBI
CBI makes 200 recommendations as to how Government and EU can prepare for no deal, with Britain ahead of Europe in emergency preparations
Export & Import
Small business exporters shrug of threat of no-deal Brexit
Small businesses involved in international trade see US protectionism and global economic slowdown as greater threats than no-deal Brexit
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Boris Johnson hires Andrew Griffith to lead Downing Street business team
Andrew Griffith, COO of Sky TV, will build a large team as bridgehead between Downing Street and business
Small Business Banking
Revolut launches free accounts for freelancers and small business
Digital challenger bank is mainly used by tech start-ups with staff who either travel abroad a lot or are paid regularly in international currencies and want to avoid punishing foreign exchange fees
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KPMG urges SMEs to speak to banks before shock of no-deal Brexit
Small business should speak to their banks now about shoring up overdrafts and loans as threat of no deal moves closer, says KPMG
Small Business Banking
Co-Operative Bank offers new business customers 2½ years’ free banking
Co-Operative Bank offers new small business customers 30 months' free banking in bid to double SME market share
Financing
British Business Bank increases small business support by 27pc
Government economic development bank supported over 89,000 start-ups and scale-ups with £6.6bn of finance in 2018-19 - an uplift of 27pc
