Finance
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Heart Distribution Launches Producer Growth Scheme
30 September 2013 NewsEarly September saw the launch of The Heart Distribution Producer Growth Scheme, providing loans to small businesses to aid their growth within the marketplace -
Funding Available for Yorkshire Food Companies
23 November 2012 NewsFunding and consultancy is now available for food and drink companies in the Yorkshire and Humber region that want to expand into robotics and automation -
Government to Scrap Proposed Pasty Tax
30 May 2012 NewsChancellor George Osbourne is to reverse the decision to charge 20% VAT on hot takeaway food. -
Taxing Times
25 November 2008 FinanceAre you ready for the tax changes? HMRC answers your VAT questions -
Keep Your Business On Track
17 September 2008 FinanceIndependent financial adviser, Smith & Williamson, gives its top tips to keep your shop out of trouble -
Make Your Business Recession Proof
14 July 2008 Retail"The ‘Recession diet’ is a trading down across the whole market and applies to all products and people," explains Rob Ward, fresh from a five-week trip to America where he saw this new phenomenon in action. "High value lines or services that lack either necessity or… -
How Will The 10p Tax Scrap Effect You?
29 April 2008 NewsThe Forum of Private Business (FPB) is calling on the Government to rethink its plans to force employers to pay for the loss of the 10p rate of income tax by increasing the National Minimum Wage. The move is likely to compel smaller businesses to put… -
Calls For 2008 Budget To Lay Off Small Firms And Retailers
20 February 2008 NewsThe chancellor, who will be delivering the first budget since the end of the Gordon Brown era at number 11, has to deal with what is described as one of the most challenging time for the British economy in nearly two decades. But, with rising costs,… -
Business: Budget Fails Small Businesses
21 March 2007 DelicatessenThe chancellor, Gordon Brown has today delivered a political budget, doing little but create more red tape for small businesses to deal with, according to the Forum of Private Business.