High earners will benefit most from today’s mini budget announcement. Speaking to Business Matters Paul Haywood-Schiefer, Senior Manager at leading tax and advisory firm Blick Rothenberg said: “The reversal of the recent increase to NIC rates will provide savings to all earners, where their income is above around £10,000 per annum (and […]

The equal and opposite action of reacting to trending news and then coat tail riding the story of the day with your expert opinions – is the seeded or placed story. This is where you set your own news agenda in the form of a bespoke narrative. News reaction through […]

Reforms to the off-payroll working rules, known as IR35, are to be scrapped from April 2023, the Treasury has announced. This will mean that from 6 April 2023, contractors working for an organisation via an intermediary will once again be responsible for determining their employment status and paying the appropriate […]

Professor John Bryson, Chair in Enterprise and Economic Geography at the University of Birmingham offered his opinion about the economic measured announced today by Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng. Professor Bryson is an economic geographer whose research focusses on understanding people, organisations and the complex ways in which production is organised through space, […]

Made.com is seeking a buyer or emergency investment as the embattled online furniture retailer plans to shed more than a third of staff to stretch its dwindling cash reserves. The company, which in July warned of job cuts as increasingly cash-strapped consumers stopped spending on “big-ticket” items, has withdrawn full-year […]