Power up your business with Innovation!

By Gary Robinson / February 25, 2023

Innovation has generally been recognised as essential for value creation, both for individual companies and for the UK economy. The development of new ideas, processes and technologies and their flow across different sectors is a significant driver of economic growth and productivity. Recently, innovation has also been identified as crucial to the transition of the…

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Managing your cashflow is essential right now

By Gary Robinson / February 19, 2023

With ever increasing supplier prices, a recent rise in interest rates, and a looming recession, managing your business’s cash and understanding the flow are now vital tools in maintaining resilience and being able to adopt flexible strategies for success. Cash flows reflect all the cash that is flowing in and out of a business. Owners…

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Unscrupulous Employers

By Gary Robinson / February 11, 2023

The government is taking action against unscrupulous employers that use the controversial practice of ‘fire and rehire’, it has announced Last year P&O Ferries sought to evade the law by sacking 786 seafarers without due consultation. Having made no efforts to inform the Business Secretary at the time, they failed to follow best practice or…

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HMRC fined 300,000 tax payers

By Gary Robinson / February 4, 2023

A record 11.7 million people submitted their tax returns on time, but over 300,000 taxpayers missed the self assessment deadline This compared with 10.2m completed returns by the 2021 deadline, although HMRC did extend the filing period due to the fallout from the pandemic. On 31 January, 861,085 taxpayers filed online to meet the deadline,…

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