Business rates are rates commercial businesses are charged on premises. Typical examples of businesses required to pay business rates include offices, pubs, warehouses and shops.

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How to Keep Records for the Self Employed

We found this quick but fairly in-depth guide aimed at self employed business owners about how to set-up a successful record-keeping system for VAT.

Guiding you through some of the basic steps involved, length of time to keep records for

Business Rates Rise of Increasing Concern

Rises to business rates are a major concern for small firms amidst changes to the tax system, a survey of the Forum of Private Business (FPB) has found.

Members of FPB were polled on the current Government’s changes to tax.

LIBOR and You

One of the highlights in the news this week has been the LIBOR rigging scandal, for which the part nationalised RBS has been forced to pay a £390m fine.

Have you seen it on the 6 o clock news and,

Reduced Rates Scheme Benefits Record Number of Scottish Businesses

89,087 Scottish businesses have benefited from the Small Business Bonus Scheme (SBBS) in the past year, according to new Government data.

The scheme provides non domestic business rates discount for small Scottish businesses. Last year, 85, 199 took up the

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HMRC Research and Development Tax Relief for Small Businesses – Find out more here.

A new service from HMRC to help small to medium enterprises claim tax relief for research and development has been declared a good idea by tax …