Category: Opinion

This summer has seen an unprecedented level of attention given to the future of the UK’s ailing broadband infrastructure.

The school holidays are in full swing and if you’ve got your own business, you are in a fantastic position to offer your children a summer job.

The Internet of Things, or IoT, is one of the more recent technological terms to have crept into the mainstream media in recent years.

Fintech was treated as both an opportunity and a threat since it appeared in the society and it started being used at a greater level.

Traditional working practices, underpinned by the classic nine-to-five routine, are not an attractive look for the millennial generation

More than half of new UK businesses don’t survive beyond their first five years and while SME owners will readily blame the tax system, lack of bank lending or late payments, often the failure is down to something much more basic – bad financial management.

Digital technology is responsible for changing the face of many of our traditional industries and none more so than the world of engineering.

For a generation the UK has been able to hold its ground in the global art market through a combination of expertise, competitive costs and a comparatively benign regulatory and fiscal environment.

As part of the drive to mark Independent Retailers Month in Swansea throughout July, Amelia Rudman, Projects Manager of Swansea Business Improvement District, shares her ten reasons why businesses should set up in the city. 

Proposals put forward by the government on employment tax compliance and reporting obligations for those coming to the UK for short business trips (“short term business visitors”) do not go far enough and may adversely affect small businesses.

Annette Stone of Thomas Westcott Chartered Accountants explains to us about a client of hers who operates a takeaway recently found themselves the subject of an HMRC VAT investigation.