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  • Contactless limit could rise to £100
  • Amazon prepares to stop selling some products to Northern Ireland
  • ‘An absolute killer’: small UK firms struggle with Brexit VAT rules
  • Private rents fall in UK’s biggest cities by up to 12% amid Covid crisis
  • Cash machine use fell 38% in 2020 due to Covid contact fears
  • Shortage of building materials puts a ceiling on construction industry
  • Sir Philip Green’s fallen Arcadia empire owes its creditors £750m
  • Quarantine hotel plans set to be announced
  • UK jobless rate hits 5% as redundancies reach record high
  • HMRC extends tax self-assessment deadline by a month to 28 February

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The latest news affecting small and medium sized (SME) businesses in the UK

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Empty lorries leave Britain as Brexit trade laws unnerve exporters

25 January 2021 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Up to half of all lorries bringing goods into Britain are returning to Europe empty as British companies put off resuming exports to the Continent to avoid getting caught by new customs regulations.

UK Border

Rishi Sunak backs Covid quarantine hotels for all UK arrivals

25 January 2021 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Rishi Sunak has thrown his weight behind plans to force everyone entering Britain to quarantine in a hotel to prevent new coronavirus strains jeopardising the mass vaccination programme.

Paris

UK firms told ‘set up in EU to avoid trade disruption’

25 January 2021 News Business Matters 0 Comments

UK firms that export to the EU say they are being encouraged by the government to set up subsidiaries in the bloc to avoid disruption under new trade rules.

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Barclaycard customers to face higher minimum payments

25 January 2021 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Some Barclaycard customers will see their minimum repayments rise from Tuesday, at a time when finances are already stretched owing to Covid and Christmas.

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Ministers won’t commit to reopening schools in England after Easter holidays

25 January 2021 News Business Matters 0 Comments

The government has refused to commit to schools being open even after the Easter holidays, raising the prospect that parents will have many more weeks of homeschooling before even a phased return of most pupils to the classroom in England.

Debenhams

Boohoo to buy Debenhams’ online business for £50m closing all stores

25 January 2021 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Internet fashion retailer Boohoo has reportedly agreed to buy the online business of Debenhams, in a move which will see the department store chain close its remaining high street shops, according to sources close to the deal.

Asos bid

Asos lines up Topshop for its online wardrobe

25 January 2021 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Asos has emerged at the head of the race to acquire Topshop from the administrators of Sir Philip Green’s retail empire, although the new owners of Asda are also among those interested in the brand.

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Medical records ‘unlikely’ to be shared with police for enforcement but lockdown could last until summer

22 January 202122 January 2021 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Police officers are unlikely to be given access to people’s medical records to help them enforce lockdown restrictions, a cabinet minister has said.

clothes in wardrobe

Retailers warn they could burn goods stuck in EU

22 January 2021 News Business Matters 0 Comments

UK retailers could abandon goods EU customers want to return, with some even thinking of burning them because it is cheaper than bringing them home.

Electric Car Charging

Electric vehicles close to ‘tipping point’ of mass adoption

22 January 202122 January 2021 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Electric vehicles are close to the “tipping point” of rapid mass adoption thanks to the plummeting cost of batteries, experts say.

No Time To Die marks Daniel Craig's swansong as James Bond

James Bond film No Time to Die delayed again over Covid

22 January 2021 News Business Matters 0 Comments

James Bond film No Time To Die has been delayed again as Hollywood grapples with the continued disruption caused by the pandemic.

Shopping in Wales

Post-Brexit shoppers pay a third extra to get hold of EU goods

22 January 202122 January 2021 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Tens of thousands of internet shoppers are being hit with unexpected customs, VAT and delivery charges on orders from the EU as retailers on the Continent struggle to cope with Brexit red tape.

Shopping

Government plans £500 payments to self-isolate under plan to slow Covid

22 January 2021 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Everyone in England who tests positive for coronavirus could be given £500 to ensure they self-isolate under plans to stop hardship spreading the virus.

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December house sales highest since 2006

22 January 202122 January 2021 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Housing market transactions last month reached their highest level since 2006 as buyers raced to benefit from the stamp duty holiday.

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Yorkshire-based start-up firm on a mission to save business borrowers money and ensure fairness

22 January 2021 News Business Matters 0 Comments

An experienced financial expert is striking a blow for business borrowers by checking commercial loans and mortgages for any overcharged interest or incorrect application fees.

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