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25% of online purchases abandoned due to delivery gripes

Almost £32m of online sales are abandoned at checkout because of frustrations over high delivery fees, slow speeds and limited options

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Win a pop-up shop space on London’s Oxford Street

We've teamed up with Sage to bring you the chance to win a pop-shop space on Oxford Street. Read on to find out how to enter

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Minister mulls U-turn on VAT-free shopping

Business minister asks businesses hurt by scrapping VAT-free shopping for overseas visitors to provide him with ‘data and information’

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Business fraud costs firms £16,000 for each incident

Fraud cost companies tens of thousands of pounds each time they are victimised but most do not bother to report incidents to police

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Suppliers urged to shrink costly energy deals

Over 90,000 businesses face closure or downsizing, being stuck on exorbitant fixed-price energy deals compared to current market prices

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Entrepreneurs made £11.8bn selling firms in the past year

Business owners have been selling their firms – but total sales figures are down significantly compared to previous years

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80 per cent of UK tech start-ups investing in skills to mitigate gaps

With almost half of small businesses surveyed by the Department for Education citing a lack of skilled staff as a concern, investment in this challenge proves widespread among UK tech start-ups

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Half of businesses press pause on investment

Small businesses scrap plans to immediately invest in technology and training, citing economic uncertainty and rising costs

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80 per cent of UK tech start-ups investing in skills to mitigate gaps

With almost half of small businesses surveyed by the Department for Education citing a lack of skilled staff as a concern, investment in this challenge proves widespread among UK tech start-ups

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Half of businesses press pause on investment

Small businesses scrap plans to immediately invest in technology and training, citing economic uncertainty and rising costs

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What the 2023 Spring Budget means for UK tech

UK Chancellor Jeremy Hunt today announced his 2023 Spring Budget, which included R&D funding and governmental investment in quantum

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Spring Budget 2023 small business checklist

Hello and welcome to our Spring Budget 2023 live coverage of what today's announcements mean for small business owners

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Hunt replaces super deduction with new tax break

Among his announcements in the Spring Budget, the Chancellor has introduced full expensing, successor to the super deduction tax break

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Budget 2023 what small business can expect

An extension to the ‘super-deduction’ tax break for business investment and tax breaks for companies that help long-term sick and disabled get back into work are being mooted

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