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All News Items -   May 2012


  1. SMEs reject business payday loans - 31 May, 2012
  2. Office of Fair Trading labels private motor insurance market 'dysfunctional' - 31 May, 2012
  3. Half of employers to relax working practices during the Olympics - 30 May, 2012
  4. HMRC staff and local MPs take part in small business work experience - 30 May, 2012
  5. StartUp Loans launched to kick-start young businesses - 29 May, 2012
  6. Technology makes it 'easier than ever' to start a business - 29 May, 2012
  7. Online tax and Government spending calculator launched - 28 May, 2012
  8. End of stamp duty holiday encourages higher value property purchases in Scotland - 28 May, 2012
  9. UK's free banking debate picks up pace - 25 May, 2012
  10. Rural businesses hampered by slow broadband - 25 May, 2012
  11. £200 million coaching programme aims to accelerate SME growth - 24 May, 2012
  12. Bank defends effect of quantitative easing on pension pots - 24 May, 2012
  13. HMRC launches new helpline and improved tax services for the bereaved - 23 May, 2012
  14. Businesses call for extended jobless entrepreneur funding - 23 May, 2012
  15. UK inflation falls to two year low - 22 May, 2012
  16. Northern Ireland fares worst in UK for retail performance and shop vacancies - 22 May, 2012
  17. Think tank urges for single 30% income tax rate - 21 May, 2012
  18. EU trends show corporate and personal tax rates are on the up - 21 May, 2012
  19. Committee report sceptical of length of apprenticeships - 18 May, 2012
  20. Cameron: Continued austerity measures and increased credit for businesses - 18 May, 2012
  21. Businesses leaving employees in the dark about rewards and pay - 17 May, 2012
  22. Millions set to retire on less than the minimum wage - 17 May, 2012
  23. Northern Ireland corporation tax cut could 'change economy overnight' - 16 May, 2012
  24. UK unemployment falls while part time workers are on the up - 16 May, 2012
  25. Confusion over PPI compensation and tax liability - 15 May, 2012
  26. Small businesses struggling with ineffective infrastructure - 15 May, 2012
  27. Millions of taxpayers in line for early tax refund - 14 May, 2012
  28. Falls in employee sickness levels stall - 14 May, 2012
  29. HMRC's tax tests for contractors criticised - 11 May, 2012
  30. Business marketing spending up for third successive quarter - 11 May, 2012
  31. Pension auto-enrolment eludes employees - 10 May, 2012
  32. The Queen's speech and small businesses - 10 May, 2012
  33. HMRC campaign deadlines approach for electricians and online traders - 9 May, 2012
  34. Corporate insolvencies on the rise while personal insolvencies fall - 9 May, 2012
  35. Real Time Information to affect 'digitally excluded' SMEs - 8 May, 2012
  36. Pound hits 3.5 year high against Euro - 8 May, 2012
  37. Rising unemployment to do 'permanent damage' to economy, says think tank - 4 May, 2012
  38. Scotland Act 2012 given Royal Assent - 4 May, 2012
  39. Small businesses urged to consider alternative buying methods to reduce costs - 3 May, 2012
  40. Poor management 'undermining' economic growth, says advisory group - 3 May, 2012
  41. SMEs 'losing battle' for public sector work, says business group - 2 May, 2012
  42. MPs call for Government to help SMEs in bank 'mis-selling scandal' - 2 May, 2012
  43. Four in five SMEs affected by postal price hike - 1 May, 2012
  44. Advisory group to track Northern Ireland's global economic competitiveness - 1 May, 2012

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