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Confidence improves

Optimism won’t last without more help, says FSB leader

Andrew McRae
Andrew McRae: firms face being crushed by debts Growing optimism amongst Scottish smaller firms won’t last unless ministers do more to help them tackle escalating costs, says a business leader.Read More

New role with lobby group

Perthshire businesswoman elected to FSB director role

Gillian MacEwan
The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has elected a Perthshire business leader as its new operations director to head up the group’s UK-wide operational management and member organisation. The resultsRead More

Call for new government action

Demand for late payment action to save 2,000 firms

Carillion sign
Carillion claimed it ‘considerate’ but was taking four months to pay its suppliers (pic: Terry Murden)   Ministers in Edinburgh and London are being urged to deliver a new driveRead More

FSB's plea to Holyrood

Brexit resilience fund is ‘vital’ for Scottish businesses

Andrew McRae has issued a plea to the Scottish Government
Andrew McRae has called on the Scottish Government to provide money to help firms adapt to the UK leaving the EU    The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has urgedRead More

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 has issued a plea to the Scottish Government
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 has issued a plea to the Scottish Government
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.