
£200 million digital investment set to support growth
HM Revenue and Customs’ Digital Services are to be transformed by £200 million of Government investment, as taxpayers get direct access to their tax affairs.
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HM Revenue and Customs’ Digital Services are to be transformed by £200 million of Government investment, as taxpayers get direct access to their tax affairs.

The founders of Bebo has bought the social network for $1m just five years after selling it for $850m.

Latest employment data from The Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo) reveals that the marketing and media sector continues to suffer from a mass talent shortage.

A military charity has said that if MoD helped nurture an entrepreneurial mindset from the day recruits joined up it could save the department money and…

The insolvency rate fell in seven out of the eleven government regions in May 2013 – a major improvement on the same month in 2012.

Reforms to curb excessive executive pay have been confirmed today after the new regulations were laid before Parliament, Business Minister Jo Swinson announced.

Chancellor sets out three Brownite-sounding principles in his review: reform, growth and fairness

Consumer minister to hold talks with lenders, regulators and debt charities on whether more regulation is needed

Small businesses in Britain are likely to be damaging their cash-flow because they wait too long to chase unpaid invoices, according to new research of the…

The Prime Minister outlined plans to create an extra 100,000 engineering technicians within the next five years, as BAE Systems chairman Sir Richard Olver called for…

A £1 million competition to help small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) drive motorsport technologies around the world has been put on the starting grid by…

UK SMEs are optimistic about their prospects this year with more than a quarter expecting double digit growth for 2013, a survey reveals.

British businesses received £4.3 billion worth of support from the government through UK Export Finance in 2012-13, the highest figure in 12 years according to new…

Labour peer and producer of the Oscar winning Chariots of Fire film, Lord Puttnam has called for a taxation on online gambling to help fund UK…

There is a stubborn shortage in the skills the UK needs to remain competitive and fuel long-term growth, according to the annual CBI/Pearson Education and Skills…