Monthly Archives: February 2020

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Steve Wozniak Still Gets a $50 Paycheck Each Week From Apple

by Brian Pietsch • February 6, 2020 • 0 Comments

He’s mostly a figurehead at this point, but Wozniak says he’s the ‘only person who received a paycheck every week since we started the company.’

Hike corporation tax to cut business rates, urge retail bosses

by Timothy Adler • February 6, 2020 • 0 Comments

Originally written by Timothy Adler on Small Business
Retail bosses will call for the Treasury to increase corporation tax in order to cut business rates by £6bn.
A sub-committee of the Retail Sector Council is reportedly calling for the Treasury to raise corporation tax by 2 per cent to 23 per cent to raise around £6bn a year by 2022/23. Other proposals cover VAT reform and tax and property cost transparency.
The group will make the recommendations in a document to be shared across Whitehall in the coming weeks, Sky News has reported.
According to Sky News, the extra revenue would be used to reduce the business rate multiplier to around 40p in the pound.
Corporation tax is currently 19 per cent for UK companies. During the election, Labour proposed increasing the rate to 26 per cent (with a lower 21 per cent rate for businesses with annual turnover of under £300,000).
High street decline
The Retail Sector Council was set up in 2018 to help address the decline of the UK high street and increase the productivity of the retail sector.
It is currently co-chaired by small business minister Kelly Tolhurst and former Co-op chief executive Richard Pennycook, who is also the chair of department store chain

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Insights for small businesses on how to navigate uncertainty post Brexit

by Partner Content • February 6, 2020 • 0 Comments

Originally written by Partner Content on Small Business
Brexit was officially set in motion last month and the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union is already underway. From January 31, 2020 until the end of December 2020, the UK and EU will be in a transitional period of alignment with the EU during which both parties will hopefully negotiate new trading agreements. Interestingly, the implementation of the UK’s withdrawal from the EU is already throwing up some concerns about how UK businesses are likely to fare at the end of the transitional period.
Brexit will affect everybody living in the UK and in the EU to varying degrees and businesses on both sides of the divide must be ready to adapt to new realities as free trade of products and services and the free movement of people happen under a new set of rules.
A state of uncertainty
For the rest of 2020, businesses are likely to be stuck in limbo even though they are theoretically supposed to be operating under existing trade agreements. The fact that businesses don’t know how the business landscape, their relationship with EU counterparties, tariffs, paperwork, or shipping routes might look like in the next 10 months is precipitating

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5 top small business tips from one of Britain’s best business schools

by Tim Vorley • February 6, 2020 • 0 Comments

Originally written by Tim Vorley on Small Business
You don’t necessarily need a business degree to run a business. There are 5.9 million SMEs across the UK, with many learning on the job and doing well.
While there is no substitute for real-world experience, the UK’s business schools can offer a lot of practical insight and support on everything from starting up to scaling. This goes beyond the degrees they offer, to the broader way they work with local businesses.
Many business owners just don’t have the bandwidth, or the money, to juggle studying for a business degree alongside their business.
One thing that we say time and again is that it is important to take a step back from working “in” the business, to working “on” the business. This is something that few owner/managers can do easily, but it makes all the difference in being able to see the wood from the trees.
There are a host of areas that business school academics have conducted research into, which can help small businesses fine tune their growth strategy.
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Here are some 5 top tips from one of Britain’s best business schools:
#1 – Innovate but not