Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs
Articles, news and analysis on business rates issues for UK SME commercial properties, such as shops, offices, pubs, warehouses, factories, holiday rental homes or guest houses.
News
Taxing online sales and home deliveries seen as one way to right the scales in favour of independent retailers stuck with paying high business rates
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Chancellor Rishi Sunak wants to keep studying the business rates problem for small businesses versus online retailers before committing to wholesale reform
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Labour would increase business rates reliefs for small businesses before phasing the tax out completely, shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves will tell party conference
Accounting
The Treasury has delayed publishing its review into business rates four times already. Rishi Sunak says the review will be published this autumn. What can we expect?
Accounting
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
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
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?
News
Small business organisations call for stop to employers helping pay for furlough, forbearance on Covid loans and extending the ban on landlords evicting commercial tenants
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The Government has extended business rates relief to more firms. However, they've also cancelled Covid-19 business rates appeals.
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The Treasury is considering extending a 2% online sales tax to all small businesses, according to a Business Rates Review interim report
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Furlough and Covid financial support set to be extended, while Treasury keeps on business rates suspension for many
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The number of business rates appeals have soared over the pandemic and talks halted before a final decision was made
Business Loans
Everything you need to know on what small business loans are and what types of loan are available for your business.
Business Technology
To run an optimal business, you must have optimal tech. We explain why you must upgrade your business technology on a regular basis
Investing in a franchise
Starting a new business is an exciting venture. But – especially in well-established industry sectors – a key question is whether it would be better to buy a franchise or go solo.