The Register - Management: Small Biz

Battles 'missing trader' fraud
The European Commission has proposed (pdf) a series of measures, including changes to the VAT Directive, to prevent and detect VAT fraud.…

Funds for small biz
Lord Mandelson of Foy has announced a £30m fund to invest in small and medium UK technology firms.…

Ad 'quality' meets scam shilling
Analysis With his ill-fated defense of Google's multi-million dollar Yahoo! handshake, chief legal officer David Drummond told Congress the search engine tie-up wou...

Free expert advice for mid-sized companies
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'Economic challenges' puts lid on controversial overhaul
The government has dumped legalisation intended to overhaul income splitting arrangements among individuals that would have effectively forc...

Up, down, trouble all around
As Alistair Darling scrambles to deny plans to raise VAT to 18.5 per cent in order to pay for his borrowing binge the row over the problems it will cause for UK busines...

There's no pleasing some people
George Osborne has described Alistair Darling's pre-budget report as the largest ever borrowing by a British government and leaving a tax bombshell timed to explode ...

VAT down, booze, ciggies and petrol up
Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling's pre-Budget report promised more help for small businesses in order to make sure the first recession of the new ...

88 domain names, admin tools, provisional patent, and more!
In the summer of 2006, at the height of the digerati's Web 2.0 frenzy, social networking startup Kiko.com sold itself on eBay. The share-...

Mandelson voices support for precision engineers
Alistair Darling's much-leaked cut in VAT from 17.5 per cent to 15 per cent has been welcomed by the small business community - although there are w...