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Business Briefing: A mixed outlook with confident patches

Feeling better? The evidence from our latest local business survey suggests that whilst confidence is improving, the picture is patchy when it comes to actual sales and real investment.Read

Business Briefing: 'The name's Bond. Corporate Bond.'

Not all businesses can go to the bank if they want a loan, but many do not realise that they have an alternative lending source on the doorstep: their customers.Read

Business Briefing: tax earthquake a-coming!

MANY businesses are unaware of an imminent overhaul in how they give information to the taxman, one which some commentators are describing as the biggest change in PAYE since 1944.Read

Business Briefing: Taxing times

TAX avoidance versus tax evasion is very much in the news, with the former just about still acceptable. But the question of when avoidance becomes evasion is becoming increasingly less clear.Read

SPECIAL REPORT: Some autumn relief from Osborne: but it's still a pretty icy wind

Business owners can breathe a little more easily since George Osborne sat down after delivering his Autumn Statement: No more VAT hikes or rises in employers’ national insurance contributions at least.Read

Business Briefing: Tax avoiders - we all end up paying in the end

What are we to make of profitable, well-known water companies, amongst other corporate giants, manipulating the system to pay relatively tiny amounts of tax in the UK? Not much. Read

Business Briefing: Pre-packs - useful, but are they ethical?

Even good businesses have bad times, often through no fault of their own. A run of trouble can upend the best run enterprise. Read

Business Briefing: Spurring banks to lend

Imagine being a company with a reasonable trading record that seeks a £300,000 loan from its bank to help expansion.Read

Business Briefing: The importance of cash flow

Making sure that cash flows properly in and out of your business is a nightmare for many owners. But in fact, there are steps to take which will stop you having restless nights.Read

Price, profit and the proper pitch

You might think the one thing any business understands is how to set prices. Not so.Read

Don't bank on the banks. Sow seeds instead

Finding money is tough for businesses at the moment, tougher still for anyone starting out with a new venture and wondering how on earth to pay for it. But there are options worth exploring without relying on your not very local, or listening, bank manager.Read

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