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📆 Does your small business employ temporary staff? ✅ Make sure that you're fully compliant with workplace pension automatic enrolment (AE) for temporary workers. Temporary workers that are paid through PAYE may still qualify for a workplace pension, which employers must contribute to. You can find out more through @TPRgovuk 🔗 thepensionsregulator.gov.uk/…

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🔶 We've been at #LDConf this week, representing the small business community.    ✅ Pleased to have had productive discussions about the some of most pressing issues facing small businesses, including how to help our high streets thrive, community banking and how to get growth.

Cost pressures are increasing for small firms - from business rates bills, to rising employment costs. There's still time to take our latest Small Business Index #SBI survey and help us campaign for the growth measures small firms need in the upcoming Autumn Budget ⤵️ 🔗 about.fsbbigvoice.uk/SBIQ320…

📻FSB's @tinamckenz joined @ShelaghFogarty on @LBC to discuss what small firms need from the Government to make it easier to do business👇

💭 FSB's national Chair, @tinamckenz, was at 10 Downing Street to talk about the impact of rising employment costs rising and burdensome regulation on small employers and youth employment. By reducing the risk and easing some of the increased costs to small employers of hiring those furthest from the jobs market, the Government can help small firms to create jobs and kick start the growth we need 👇

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🚨 Calling small business owners, self-employed people & Ltd company directors 🚨 FSB’s flagship quarterly survey is open - and your answers will provide the hard evidence behind crucial campaigning on the Budget, the Government’s 10-Year Plan, Legislation and the Spending Review. Tell us how your business is really doing - and what you need. 🔒 Confidential. We only use aggregated data. Have your say 👇

📈 Small firms are facing a range of cost pressures - from business rates bills, to rising employment costs.   With the Autumn Budget set to be delivered in October, take our latest Small Business Index #SBI survey and help us campaign for the growth measures small firms need ⤵️   🔗 about.fsbbigvoice.uk/SBIQ320…

📻The tourism sector is facing rising costs and needs breathing space, not more pressure. @craigie_b talks to @TimesRadio about the impact new tourist taxes in England will have on the visitor economy 👇

🧾 Plans to bring in visitor levies in England are a 'kick in the teeth' for the visitor economy, FSB's @craigie_b tells @thetimes. The proposals risk doing serious damage to the tourism industry and increasing costs for small businesses 👇 thetimes.com/uk/politics/art…

🏨 Government proposals to introduce visitor levies in England risk undermining tourism and increasing costs for small businesses. 🚩 It's a 'kick in the teeth' for the hospitality sector and could push many small firms to the brink. Read our full release 🔗 fsb.org.uk/media-centre/pres…

🚨 NEW: Small businesses are facing a range of cost pressures - from business rates bills, to rising employment costs. With the Autumn Budget just over a month away, take our latest Small Business Index #SBI survey and help us campaign for the growth measures small firms need ⤵️ 🔗 about.fsbbigvoice.uk/SBIQ320…

💷 HMRC has published new guidance for sole traders and landlords who are automatically enrolled into Making Tax Digital for Income Tax. 💭 It sets out what to do if HMRC registers a business to the scheme, which can apply to some self-employed people and landlords with an income above the qualifying threshold. Find out more 👇 gov.uk/guidance/check-what-t…

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🌱 Is your small businesses ready for new carbon emissions tax rules? 🗓️ From January 2027, businesses importing goods like aluminium, cement and fertiliser into the UK will need to comply with stricter carbon emission record-keeping rules under the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism. Take a look at HMRC's guidance on how your small business can stay compliant 👇 🔗 gov.uk/money/carbon-border-a…

🗓️ As party conference season gets underway, FSB will representing small businesses at all of the main conferences. FSB's national chair @tinamckenz is at @reformparty_uk's conference in Birmingham, telling @GBNEWS about the key issues on the small business agenda ⤵️

🚨With barely six months of the current Assembly and Executive mandate remaining, there is a real danger that significant legislation could be rushed through without the scrutiny, consultation and consensus it deserves. For Northern Ireland’s small businesses, entrepreneurs and job creators, the consequences of getting this wrong could last for years. ✍️In his latest piece for the Belfast @News_Letter, @FSB_NI Chair Alan Lowry looks at the lessons from previous legislation, the concerns around the proposed Employment Rights Bill, and why better law requires proper scrutiny, genuine engagement with employers and political consensus. As the political weather turns stormier, business needs our elected representatives to avoid the extremes, listen to those creating jobs and wealth, and focus on getting the legislation right, not simply getting it done. 🌩️ Political heavy weather is inevitable. Economic damage isn’t. Read the full piece here: newsletter.co.uk/business/po…

Congratulations to Andrew Griffith @griffitha as Kemi Badenoch’s new #ShadowChancellor To have someone we’ve worked with, who’s placed small businesses and SMEs at the centre of economic growth, is encouraging (Also: Government itself is always better, with better Opposition!)