Further funding has been announced by Doncaster Council. The grant is to support home-working, mobile and self-employed businesses in Doncaster that have lost trade due to the pandemic and have been ineligible for other schemes. The grant will see eligible businesses receive a one-off payment of £1,000 from the council’s Discretionary Grant Scheme. Doncaster council …
On 5th January 2021, the Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced a further £4.6 billion in business support grants for businesses forced to close due to the latest lockdown. This follows the Prime Minister’s recent announcement of a third national lockdown, that these business will be closed until at least February half-term in order to help control …
On 31 October 2020, the Prime Minister announced that England would go into a second lockdown with effect from 5 November 2020 for 4 weeks. There are various restrictions as with the previous lockdown. This article is to highlight the financial help for businesses. Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme This was due to finish at the …
Although the situation with Covid-19 may have been a huge distraction from Brexit, the UK transitional period finishes at the end of 2020. This may affect you as a private individual and/or as a business owner. It will particularly affect you if you import goods into the UK or export goods from the UK. Therefore, …
On Friday 29 May 2020, the Chancellor announced plans to extend the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) for those people whose trade continues to be, or is newly, adversely affected by the Coronavirus (COVID-19). Eligible self-employed people will be able to claim a second and final SEISS grant in August; this will be a taxable …
Post dated 5 May 2020 If you are self employed, you could benefit from the Self Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS), which is the Government support for those sole traders and partnerships affected by the Coronavirus pandemic. HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) have been refining the advice and support in respect of the SEISS, so …
In response to the difficulties encountered through the Business Interruption Loan Scheme, the Chancellor announced a new loan scheme – The Bounce Back Loan Scheme (BBLS) – for smaller businesses that will benefit from a 100% government-backed guarantee. The Bounce Back Loan Scheme helps small and medium-sized businesses to borrow between £2,000 and £50,000. The …
The Chancellor announced the latest support for small businesses on Thursday 26th March 2020, in the form of the Self Employment Income Support Scheme. This is aimed at people who are self employed, and importantly were self employed before the beginning of the current tax year. It is aimed at levelling the position of the …
The Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic is having a profound and unprecedented effect on all aspects of our lives. The situation seems to be changing on a daily basis. In respect of how this affects small businesses, since the Budget on 11th March, there have been further announcements in respect of assistance. There were a raft of …
As you may know by now the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into effect on 25 May 2018. It has been covered in the media and the panic it has caused is similar to the millennium bug. There is no need to panic; however, there is some misinformation out there that we’re concerned will be …