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MTD for Income Tax: your first quarterly update is due 7 August.

MTD for Income Tax: your first quarterly update is due 7 August.

If you are a sole trader or landlord and your gross income from self-employment and property was over £50,000 on your 2024/25 tax return, Making Tax Digital for Income Tax now applies to you, and...

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News
Andy Burnham's Manifesto for Small Business, and How It Stacks Up Against Count Binface

Andy Burnham's Manifesto for Small Business, and How It Stacks Up Against Count Binface

If all goes to plan (or rather, to Labour's timetable), Andy Burnham will be sworn in as Prime Minister on 20 July. He is currently the only declared candidate to succeed Keir Starmer, having...

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Sales & Marketing
SEO in the Age of AI: What UK Small Businesses Actually Need to Know

SEO in the Age of AI: What UK Small Businesses Actually Need to Know

TL;DR Search has shifted from "ten blue links" to answer engines, and the click is dying: Google AI Overviews now cut organic click-through rates by around 58% for the top result (Ahrefs...

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Starting Up
What Carphone Warehouse, Microsoft and Uber Have in Common: They Started in a Downturn

What Carphone Warehouse, Microsoft and Uber Have in Common: They Started in a Downturn

There's a comforting myth that you need a booming economy to start something. Cheap money, confident customers, the wind at your back. It feels true. It mostly isn't. Some of the most durable...

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Selling Your Business
What Makes a Small Business Actually Sellable?

What Makes a Small Business Actually Sellable?

There's a question that a lot of small business owners never think to ask until they absolutely have to: if I wanted to sell this business tomorrow, could I? For many, the answer is more...

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Management & Wellbeing
Why Your Team Keeps Asking the Same Questions (And What to Actually Do About It)

Why Your Team Keeps Asking the Same Questions (And What to Actually Do About It)

Every small business owner knows the moment. You're halfway through something important when a team member appears at your shoulder with a question you've answered before. Not once. Several times...

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Legal & Financial
At What Point Do Courier Losses Just Become a Cost of Doing Business?

At What Point Do Courier Losses Just Become a Cost of Doing Business?

If you sell physical products online, you already know the feeling. You check your inbox, and there it is: another "delivered but not received" claim. Or a damage report. Or a courier compensation...

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Technology
What I Wish I'd Known Before Using AI in My Business

What I Wish I'd Known Before Using AI in My Business

Somewhere between the headlines promising AI will transform everything and the frustrated forum posts from people who've been let down by it, there's a more useful conversation to be had. Not "is...

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Sales & Marketing
Is AI Making the Internet Worse?

Is AI Making the Internet Worse?

It started with a comment about music. @JEREMY HAWKE , a courier business owner from Exeter and long-standing UKBF member, mentioned in passing that he'd been listening to something he enjoyed...

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Technology
The AI Divide: What UKBF Members Really Think in 2026

The AI Divide: What UKBF Members Really Think in 2026

Every few months on UK Business Forums, a thread appears that refuses to die. The "AI does have its uses" discussion — started back in February by long-standing moderator @fisicx — has now passed...

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Technology
When the Algorithm Gets It Wrong: What eBay's AI Moderation Problem Tells Us About Platform Risk

When the Algorithm Gets It Wrong: What eBay's AI Moderation Problem Tells Us About Platform Risk

A thread appeared on UKBF this week that, on the surface, looks like a straightforward complaint about eBay. Look a little closer though, and it's actually a window into one of the most...

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Starting Up
Should you crowdfund? A framework for UK founders in 2026

Should you crowdfund? A framework for UK founders in 2026

Three articles into a series on what crowdfunding actually costs, the practical question remains. If you are running a UK business in 2026 and considering a community-led raise, what should you...

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Starting Up
The polls, the reframing, and the billion dollars

The polls, the reframing, and the billion dollars

How three letters from the early years of Star Citizen's development quietly set the governance structure of a business that is still, thirteen years later, being governed by them. And what that...

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Starting Up
The values trap: what the Punks actually owned

The values trap: what the Punks actually owned

Why BrewDog's Equity for Punks investors were structurally locked out of the upside long before the administration happened, and what any founder running a values-led raise in 2026 should learn...

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Starting Up
When belief is the business model

When belief is the business model

What BrewDog's collapse and Star Citizen's billion-dollar climb are telling UK founders about the true cost of crowdfunded capital --- On Monday 2nd March 2026, BrewDog went into administration...

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Technology
AI, Virtual Influencers and the Copyright Minefield: What Entrepreneurs Need to Know

AI, Virtual Influencers and the Copyright Minefield: What Entrepreneurs Need to Know

I'll be upfront: this article was written with the assistance of an AI. The irony of asking Claude to write about AI and intellectual property is not lost on me, and I think it actually...

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Management & Wellbeing
The Most Dangerous Moment in Business Is When Everything Is Going Well

The Most Dangerous Moment in Business Is When Everything Is Going Well

They Saw It Coming. They Did Nothing. The Lessons Every Business Owner Needs to Hear. There is a particular kind of business tragedy that isn't about bad luck, poor timing, or a lack of talent...

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Technology
AI and Your Business: Useful Tool, Not a Magic Wand

AI and Your Business: Useful Tool, Not a Magic Wand

There is no shortage of noise around artificial intelligence right now. Barely a week passes without a headline telling small business owners that AI will either transform their operations or make...

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News
Companies House WebFiling security incident: what happened, what to check, and what to do next

Companies House WebFiling security incident: what happened, what to check, and what to do next

Companies House has confirmed that its WebFiling service suffered a security issue that, in certain circumstances, allowed a logged-in WebFiling user to access and potentially change some details...

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Legal & Financial
Spring Budget 2026: A Quiet Update for UK Businesses

Spring Budget 2026: A Quiet Update for UK Businesses

Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivered the UK’s Spring Statement on 3 March 2026, and for many business owners, it may have felt like a surprisingly uneventful fiscal announcement. That was largely...

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