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The financing channel looks at the different small business funding options available to start-up companies and established SME businesses looking to grow. Read a wealth of guides and tips to help manage your accounts and cash flow better, views on the future of business banking and where to source alternative finance.

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

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

The EU VAT e-commerce package: how accounting can help

The EU is expanding the ‘one-stop’ system for reporting and paying VAT across the bloc to include all distance sales of services and intracommunity sale of goods. The updated schemes are together known as the EU VAT E-commerce Package. What does it mean for UK businesses and how can you adapt?

Alternative finance

Business finance options for UK construction firms

Funding Options explain what construction finance is and what options are out there for SMEs in the construction industry

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

Small Business Banking

What is the Business Banking Resolution Service (BBRS)?

BBRS chairman Lewis Shand-Smith answers your questions about how to use the SME banking dispute resolution service

Accounting

Payroll: how UK small businesses can get it right

For a small business, handling your payroll is tricky at the best of times, but the coronavirus pandemic and emergence of hybrid working have complicated matters further. Here’s how you can get it right first time

Small Business Banking

What is the Business Banking Resolution Service (BBRS)?

BBRS chairman Lewis Shand-Smith answers your questions about how to use the SME banking dispute resolution service

Accounting

Payroll: how UK small businesses can get it right

For a small business, handling your payroll is tricky at the best of times, but the coronavirus pandemic and emergence of hybrid working have complicated matters further. Here’s how you can get it right first time

Government Grants

Sunak ignores small business pleas for more help to get through lockdown

Treasury points to £1bn worth of ad-hoc local authority grants still to be distributed, as pain starts to bite with furlough being wound down and business rates becoming payable

Tax

What taxes does a business pay when employing staff?

Businesses that employ staff have an obligation to collect and pay taxes to HMRC in relation to that employment, as Emma Twynholm explains

Tax

What taxes does a business have to pay on its trading activities?

Joanne McLaughlin of Hillier Hopkins explains what taxes your business will have to pay on its trading activities

Government Grants

Just 25% of cash earmarked for £20m Brexit Support Fund applied for

The government's £20m scheme to help small businesses get through Brexit paperwork appears to be a damp squib as SMEs are put off by complicated application process

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