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Budget 2018: IR35 and other taxes

Concern over tightening self-employed tax loophole

Ed Molyneux
Ed Molyneux: ‘government is making an unfair assumption’   Businesses voiced concern about the move to further close a tax loophole where some self-employed are not what they say. The IR35Read More

Scots among most concerned

SME confidence slides amid growing ‘No deal’ fears

Neil Findlay, Scottish Labour,
Neil Findlay: no surprise to see business confidence plummeting (pic: Terry Murden)   Scottish small business confidence has fallen sharply and businesses north of the border are amongst the mostRead More

Call to modernise system

Strip out red tape and go digital in rates reform, says FSB

Andrew McRae, FSB
Andrew McRae: ‘the rates system is bureaucratic and old-fashioned’    A small business campaign group has urged the Scottish government to introduce more digital technology and strip out red tape orRead More

Another U-Turn by Hammond

Chancellor under attack for ditching tax cut pledge

Philip Hammond, reversing national insurance pledge
A plan to cut national insurance payments for the self-employed has been...

FSB calls for reform

Council work for SMEs ‘halves in a decade’

Andrew McRae, FSB
The number of Scottish businesses winning work from their local council has almost halved over the last decade, according to a detailed new report.

Joint letter to ministers

Businesses urge action on mobile coverage

Andy Willox
Business leaders have written to the Secretaries of State for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland calling on the UK Government to improve mobile phone coverage.

Rural firms fear hit

FSB accuses RBS of cutting mobile services

Mobile bank
Small business leaders have criticised reported moves by RBS to slim down its mobile bank van services in rural communities.

As I See It

Link levy with academies to beat skills crisis

Terry smiling
One common theme in the many surveys on business prospects is a concern over skills shortages, though it's not for the want of efforts to tackle the problem.

FSB to demand action

Scotland’s mobile coverage ‘unacceptable’

Andy Willox
The UK Government is being told it must take action to fix Scotland’s ‘unacceptable’ mobile phone coverage.

As I See It: Week in Review

L of a week: landbanks, lottery and a landslip

Heather Small and Emma Thompson (1)
A week in the Daily Business diary began with a call from a housebuilder and also featured lunch at a historic venue, an Oscar winning actress, a pop singer and one of the world's richest men...