The perennial problem of late payment for small businesses is getting even worse according to two new reports.

The Government's much-anticipated productivity plan was published last week. But business groups are calling for more to be done on exports and skills.

More than half of the 844,000 home business owners in the UK who have children will spend time away from their business to be with their family over the summer.

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Many micro-business owners are failing to track their time and aren't billing clients for all the work they do, according to new research.

The latest British Chambers of Commerce Quarterly Economic Survey reveals that UK manufacturing is continuing the decline that was seen in the first quarter of 2015.

George Osborne's Summer Budget included a major overhaul of dividend taxation that could have a significant effect on small limited companies from 2016.

As many as a third of small business owners could be ready to hang up their hats in the next five years, as economic conditions finally look more favourable for those that want to sell up.

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A worrying number of the UK's small firms and micro-businesses are completely unprepared for the auto-enrolment pension process, according to two new research studies.