SME Business News

As many as one in three firms are worried that the planned increase in VAT could have an adverse effect on their business, a new survey has claimed.
A study of the reaction of 500 businesses to measures introduced in the emergency Budget, carried out by YouGov research, found that 30 per cent of respondents believe [...]

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The coalition Government’s proposals to slash the red tape stifling business growth is welcome news for the UK’s 4.8 million small firms, says the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).
Research by the FSB shows that nearly a third (27%) of small firms that wanted to expand said the proposed increases in regulation is a difficulty in [...]

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The new coalition government recently announced that Ed Vaizey was to be the new broadband minister, and the Federation of Small Businesses is now already calling on Vaizey to ensure that businesses have access to basic broadband speeds.
It was announced recently that the new broadband minister in the UK was to be Ed Vaizey, and [...]

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As the leaders of the three main political parties join for the final of the groundbreaking televised debates today, the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has raised key arguments which it believes are vital to strengthening economic recovery that each party leader should answer to.
Small businesses are the UKs biggest employer with 4.8 million businesses [...]

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Unemployment figures confirm that recovery is still too fragile for small firms to take on more staff, says FSB
As unemployment increased to 2.5 million, new figures from the ‘FSB Voice of Small Business Index’ show that while small firms are slowly moving into recovery they still aren’t in a position to take on more staff. [...]

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FSB-ICM research shows that the Government needs to provide better information to small businesses to help them go green.
Small firms feel that energy efficiency can provide their business with cost savings but said they need the Government to put systems and business support incentives in place to help, according to the findings of a Federation [...]

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For small businesses the priority, as always, will be to carry on creating wealth and jobs – and the FSB is calling on government to create the right conditions for growth by providing an economic stimulus for small business.
One key concern over the past 18 months is that of affordable finance for small business. The [...]

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Public sector clients are still late to pay small businesses, a survey has found.
A survey by the Federation of Small Business (FSB) found that 22% of payments from local authorities were late, while 35% of payments from central government were still outstanding after the agreed payment period.
The FSB believes the government, nationally and locally, must [...]

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The Federation of Small Businesses was pleased with the announcement to take 345,000 small businesses in England out of the business rates system, is looking forward to the introduction of the new credit adjudicator giving small businesses the opportunity to appeal against a decision by the bank to reject a loan application, welcomed the Chancellor’s [...]

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The FSB has discovered that 48 per cent of business sectors have seen a rise in the level of flat rate VAT they pay
The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has discovered that the flat rate VAT charged by HMRC to the smallest of businesses has risen to a higher level and the FSB has urged [...]

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