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Blick Rothenberg warns cake shed owners that HMRC can check council and hygiene records to find bakers who have not declared income from roadside sales.
An independent review published today estimates refugee entrepreneurs could add £2bn to the UK economy if barriers to starting a business were removed.
SME bank lending outstanding across Great Britain has fallen by £26.8bn since 2022, with nine in 10 postcode sectors seeing less finance, analysis shows.
The state pension rise due next April is likely to be £488, taking the full new state pension to £13,036.40 a year, after wage growth of…
The Foreign Office IR35 case enters a second year, with the department still unable to say what it owes HMRC after hundreds of wrong assessments.
![New buy-to-let company formations are on course to fall for the first time since 2008. Hamptons found 41,483 were set up in the first eight months of the year, against 44,802 a year earlier. Aneisha Beveridge, its head of research, said the incorporation boom was driven by landlords moving properties they already owned into limited companies after the tax changes that began in 2016, and that the trend is reaching its tail end. She added that the Treasury's stamp duty income from those transfers, worth about £1.2bn a year, was likely to start falling. What does a slowdown in landlord incorporations mean for rental supply in your area? Read the full story: [ARTICLE URL] #BuyToLet #Property #Tax](https://bmmagazine.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/shutterstock_390007225-420x236.jpg)
Buy-to-let company formations are on course for their first annual fall since 2008, with 41,483 set up in eight months, analysis by Hamptons shows.
Jefferies analyst Jonathan Pierce says lenders could offer the chancellor a freeze on deferred tax assets to avert a steeper tax rise on 28 October.
The British Business Bank's £210m South East Investment Fund, launched on 9 September, offers loans and equity to smaller firms from Kent to Oxfordshire.
Make UK and Bishop Fleming survey finds inheritance tax changes and energy costs are prompting family-owned manufacturers to consider selling up.
B&Q, Five Guys, Serco and Whitbread are among 658 employers named by the government for minimum wage underpayments, repaying £4m to 27,000 workers.
New Companies House filings show Harvey Nichols and Company went into administration owing £270.5 million to unsecured creditors, and administrators FTI Consulting expect no more than…
The former Match of the Day presenter, one of more than 120 signatories to an open letter asking Andy Burnham for a 2 per cent wealth…
Thousands of people and employers with outstanding Loan Charge liabilities are being invited to settle under the new Loan Charge Settlement Scheme, which HMRC says will…
