Cohabiting couples who run a business together need to cut out complacency and take appropriate measures to protect themselves and their business should the relationship break down.
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Tips on how SMEs can challenge new business rates
Listen to our latest podcast for top tips on how you can try to recoup costs owed to your business
Patent Box legislation stays intact and moves a step nearer
The draft Patent Box legislation remained intact at its first reading in Parliament, with just some minor tinkering at the edges according to a leading firm of patent attorneys.
Landlords welcome Government response to Portas
The British Property Federation has welcomed the Government response to retail guru Mary Portas’s review of the high street.
Keep you mitts off Private Exec Pay
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg’s statements that he is going to get ‘tough on exec pay’ in the private sector are ‘ludicrous and totally unrealistic’ according to Will Davies – co-founder of one of Britain’s fastest growing property maintenance companies.
Help available for riot-affected businesses
If your business was affected by the riots in English cities last week, there are some measures in place to help you get through this difficult time.
Government launches next phase of Growth Review
Skills, the rural economy and medium sized businesses will be at the centre of the next stage of the Growth Review, the Government announced today, as it continues its focus on restoring the economy’s health.
Budget 2011: Chancellor George Osborne focuses on business
Chancellor George Osborne’s speech was billed as a Budget for Growth and presented as the Budget for Business and he pummelled the point home with the word “business” featuring 37 times in his hour-long speech.
A Quick Guide to help you meet the Self Assessment deadline
Not filed your 2009/10 self-assessment tax return online yet? Well you’re in good company. As of 17th January 2011, over three million people who’d been issued with tax returns to fill in hadn’t filed them yet. Here is, qualified Chartered Accountant, Emily Coltman with a few answers to some of those burning questions you may have, to help you meet that Jan 31st deadline.
Nearly half of small businesses face £3,000 fine over poor records
&Nearly half of all small and medium sized businesses that keep poor trading records are set to face investigation and fines of up to £3,000 under a planned HM Revenue Customs clamp down.
Two down & one to go
The Clegg bubble has burst. Politics is back to business as usual.
Gordon Brown started off badly and got worse. The man is in denial. He looked tired, lacked conviction and was forced into an embarrassing position over the content of his party’s election leaflets. Coupled with that smile: Jack Nicholson, playing The Joker!
Labour party
Your source for all the latest news, comment and analysis that might affect your business from the Labour Party and leader Gordon Brown in this year’s general election.
The Budget in full
For anyone who missed the last Budget that Chancellor Alistair Darling delivered before the General Election, you can read the full transcript here.
Joint Ventures – What are the best options?
Businesses across all industries often look to collaborate with others for mutual advantage. It could be the pooling of resources for R&D; an investment agreement in which one party contributes cash while the other provides technical expertise; or a more complex arrangement involving a separate company with its own funding, management and staff.
Profile: Karren Brady
We talk to Karren Brady, who is set to take over from Margaret Mountford as Lord Sugar’s eyes and ears on The Apprentice. Karren became managing director of Birmingham City football club at the age of 23; the only woman to hold this position in the premiership and the youngest director of a UK plc. Now 38, she is married to retired footballer Paul Peschisolido and lives in Birmingham with her two children – Sophia, 12, and Paolo, nine. Once the takeover is complete of Birmingham City FC it is widely predicted that she will blow full-time on her career as the first lady of football.
