Tax News As the nights are drawing in and we get ready for another raft of new tax legislation to be announced in the autumn statement, we thought we would bring you up to date on a number of previously announced measures and look at what is in the pipeline for April 2016 and beyond. […]
Can Chichester catch a Chinese cold? As Chinese economic issues continue to ripple out across the world, I found myself wondering what impact a Chinese slowdown, or even meltdown could have on us here in Chichester. If you are like me and often see these stories on the news and think to yourself that is […]
The Budget Summer 2015 …and breathe I think it is fair to say that modest relief is the best way of summing up the 2015 summer budget, the first wholly Conservative budget for nearly two decades. On the face of it, it wasn’t all that painful. As the BBC commented, George Osborne seems to have […]
The landscape for UK small business is strong, with a new report confirming confidence across the sector. The report, from the Federation of Small Businesses, suggests that small businesses expect to grow this year, following a “robust” improvement in confidence during the past three months. Encouragingly the research showed that business confidence was at its […]
We have watched events in the grocery sector in April with interest as we can all learn something from the very public battles which are taking place. The month started with news that Aldi had leapfrogged Waitrose to be the 6th biggest supermarket by market share, continuing the discounters dilution of the ‘Big 4’s’ dominance, […]