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The news section on Small Business UK allows you to keep up to date with the latest news, economic trends and regulatory developments affecting new and established UK small businesses.

One in four small businesses fear closure

Small business owners say survival is their key priority over next six months as energy prices rocket and 80% have difficulty recruiting staff

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Who won at this year’s British business Awards 2022?

Over 200 people attended this year’s British Business Awards 2022, with supermodel businesswoman Caprice Bourret hosting the glamorous event

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Hunt scraps VAT-free shopping and presses on with IR35 reforms

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt reverses nearly all of Kwasi Kwarteng's tax cuts, loading billions onto bills of small business owners

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Corporation tax to rise to 25% as planned

Government drops planned corporation tax cut to 19% as Prime Minister Liz Truss sacks chancellor

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Energy Bill Relief Scheme – how it works

Government bows to pressure and backdates energy bill relief scheme to December 1 last year before the war in Ukraine broke out

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Welcome to your new look Small Business 

Small Business and its sister site Growth Business unveil bright new logos

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What will a UK version of GDPR look like?  

New UK version of GDPR must have at its core a commitment to lower costs and compliance issues for small businesses, says Federation of Small Businesses

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Truss scraps small business minister title

Small businesses do not have a dedicated small business minister for first time since last Labour government. Instead, championing small businesses has become part of much wider ministerial role

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What will a UK version of GDPR look like?  

New UK version of GDPR must have at its core a commitment to lower costs and compliance issues for small businesses, says Federation of Small Businesses

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Truss scraps small business minister title

Small businesses do not have a dedicated small business minister for first time since last Labour government. Instead, championing small businesses has become part of much wider ministerial role

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Government slashes red tape for thousands of businesses

Business secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg simplifies regulations for thousands of businesses, raises threshold for employee numbers from 250 to 500

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What the economic crisis means for small businesses

Experts predict that the current economic crisis will have a significant impact on small businesses – but will it all be negative?

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Truss to review visa schemes to ease labour shortages

PM Liz Truss wants to review visa conditions to make it easier to recruit key roles, such as broadband engineers

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Mini Budget – what it means for small businesses

Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng announces raft of measures to boost business growth, including scrapping planned corporation tax and National Insurance rises, raising the limit on Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme investment, and creating low-tax investment zones to encourage new industry

Business Technology

How to keep your small business safe online

Here's how Security Service Edge from Vodafone can help to protect your SME from ever-increasing cyber threats

Business Technology

How to grow a global creative agency in record time

Find out how creative agency, Myth Studio, used technology to grow their business and quadruple their staff count in 18 months

Partner content

Attracting and keeping top talent through Total Reward

Employment benefits specialist, Drewberry, explain why you should base your benefits around a Total Reward Strategy

Partner content

5 things every small business owner needs to know before starting

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