It is no secret that we are going through some economic difficulties at the moment. Nor is it unapparent that small businesses are being particularly affected by the downturn, and facing such financial problems that many people are being made redundant.
However, almost half of all companies are planning on making job cuts, with as many [...]

Tax Returns Can Be Taxing!
Tax is the issue of the day for small businesses as the deadline for filing online tax returns is creeping ever closer.  However, HM Revenue and Customs are getting a little worried as there has been a huge number of online applications already and the deadline isn’t until tomorrow.
Brought forward a [...]

Just do it!
The country is in a recession, the unemployment rate is on the rise to record levels and there are massive amounts of businesses failing to survive through the economic drought.  However, that doesn’t mean budding entrepreneurs have to put their plans on starting up their own small businesses on hold.
Rome wasn’t built in [...]

The dragons from the BBC progamme, Dragon’s Den, have created a website in the wake of the economic downturn that will be aimed at aiding small businesses in Britain as more and more small businesses are being forced to close their doors throughout the country. 
The website, labelled Smarta.com, is hoping to supply advice and [...]

Small businesses in the pub sector will be feeling even more pressure today as figures released from the British Beer and Pub Association have shown that two million fewer pints of beer are being sold everyday in the pubs in the country, compared to figures recorded a year ago.
The massive drop in sales, revealed in [...]

The Federation of Small Businesses has released figures showing how calls to their small business hotline have risen by a staggering 214 per cent a the country plunges further into a recession and more small businesses are being forced out of business.  The FSB have claimed that the calls are relating to concerns and issues [...]

It is now official, the country is in the worst recession it has seen in the last 29 years and to ass salt to the wound, Gordon Brown has announced that he didn’t expect the economic downturn to actually hit Britain and that Britain will not be seeing any relief from the recession in 2009 [...]

The declining strength of the pound has become even more apparent over the last few days as the country has watched it’s worth drop against the dollar.  The pound has fallen to close to a 23 year low, standing at $1.3915 for every pound and 1.0688 Euros for every pound.
Compared to last summer, the figures [...]