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.
News
Average wait time to be paid now 31 days
January saw a sharp spike in the length of time clients are waiting to pay overdue invoices to small businesses
Starting a Business
One fifth of all new companies are founded by women
All-women teams established over 150,000 new businesses last year, with young women aged 16-to-25-years-old the most active entrepreneurs
Accounting
Sole traders pay most tax since records began
Self-employed paid £22bn in income tax in January – the biggest-ever figure since records began in 1999 and one-third higher since last year
Accounting
Sole traders increasingly avoid charging VAT
Tens of thousands of small businesses deliberately stay small to avoid charging VAT, which means you have to hike prices if you wander over the £85,000 threshold
News
Nearly 60% of businesses face going under
Six out of ten business owners consider throwing in towel, buffeted by inflation, soaring energy bills and an economy heading into recession
Business management
Businesses face £34bn pension black hole
Businesses offering final-salary pension schemes pushed towards safer investments in move that could see underfunded schemes facing bills of tens of billions of pounds
Series
Who were the Dragons’ Den Dragons and where are they now?
Now that we're at series 20 in Dragons' Den, we remember the previous occupants of those infamous chairs and find out where they are now
News
Brexit is not working, say small businesses
Nearly 80% of firms that trade with the EU say that the current Brexit deal is not helping them increase sales or grow their business
News
Hunt delays details of business energy support extension
Chancellor wants more time to design replacement of current Energy Bill Relief Scheme – leaving millions of small businesses in limbo
Making Tax Digital
Making Tax Digital mothballed for millions of self-employed
HMRC postpones Making Tax Digital income tax reporting for millions of small businesses, raising threshold to £30,000 income from April 2026
News
Energy cost support to be extended for all businesses
Previously Government said energy cost support for businesses would only be extended for ‘vulnerable’ sectors post March 31 2023
Accounting
Self-employed Making Tax Digital faces delay until 2026
Treasury set to announce two-year delay to rolling out its Making Tax Digital system to the self-employed and microbusinesses earning over £10,000 from April 2024 to 2026
