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The news section on Small Business UK allows you to keep up to date with the latest news, economic trends and regulatory developments affecting new and established UK small businesses.

Councils could scrap small business rate relief

Changes heralded as making small business rate relief (SBRR) automatic could lead to councils scrapping the tax break altogether, according the Forum of Private Business.

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Most online retailers guilty of spamming 

More than half of UK online retailers send unsolicited emails, research finds.

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Happiest Britons work for themselves

Self-employed Britons are the happiest workers in the country, research finds.

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CBI: SMEs must embrace low carbon opportunities

The Confederation of British Industry has urged small businesses to take advantage of low-carbon opportunities ahead of its climate change summit.

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SMEs must look beyond domestic shores

British businesses are missing the opportunity to compete in the global marketplace, research finds.

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Employee law a burden for SMEs

Small businesses feel strangled by employee law and legislation finds a survey.

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FSB: SMEs to be hit hard by pension reform

Automatic enrolment into a pension scheme will cost small businesses £2,550, the Federation of Small Businesses warns.

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HR teams ill-equipped to face industrial action

More than half of HR teams have no experience of dealing with trade union action, a study says.

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FSB: SMEs to be hit hard by pension reform

Automatic enrolment into a pension scheme will cost small businesses £2,550, the Federation of Small Businesses warns.

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HR teams ill-equipped to face industrial action

More than half of HR teams have no experience of dealing with trade union action, a study says.

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Overdrafts most popular form of funding

Bank overdrafts remain the single most popular form of business finance for small businesses despite year-on-year term lending decreasing by £269 million on 2009.

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Business owners not so sweet on Sugar job

The majority of SME owners would not accept a job working for Alan Sugar.

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Managers say no to home working

More than three quarters of small business managers are rigidly opposed to flexible working for their employees.

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London benefits most from SMEs

The Capital has emerged as the area where small businesses make the biggest contribution to the local economy.

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