Since its launch earlier this year, the new-business aid scheme, Start Up Loans has recently celebrated the transaction of its 10,000th loan, which was awarded to Cornish entrepreneur, Allen Martin to help him initiate his new business providing online help for landlords.

‘Research suggests that only 50 per cent of women in their 30s work full-time, compared with 81 per cent of men of the same age.’

Employers associated with Employer Financed Retirement Benefit Schemes (EFRBS) will be receiving letters from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) regarding an opportunity to reconcile any outstanding liabilities they may hold ascertaining to the scheme.

When an employee can be heard as well as seen is when a business inevitably reaps the benefits, which is why employee ownership is a highly protractible business model designed for the longevity of not only the retention of a firm’s workforce, but for the company as a whole.

Business Secretary Vince Cable has launched a funding campaign in a bid to help the UK’s some 4.9 million small firms to develop.  

Effective from 1 January 2015, alterations to the European Union (EU) VAT place of supply will affect businesses who provide broadcasting, telecommunications and e-services to consumers, as they will be required to keep records about the variety of electronic services they supply, to whom they supply them to and to where they are supplied.