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Business formations drop after tax clampdown
The latest Companies House data, as analysed by the Centre for Entrepreneurs, shows that 589,008 new businesses launched in 2017 – a drop from 657,790 in 2016. The Centre’s analysis suggests this is mostly a result of the government’s clampdown on “disguised employment” among public sector workers.
Read our release, view an interactive map and download the data here. Read the Sunday Times exclusive here.
News
- More small businesses get access to the Financial Ombudsman (BBC)
- Plunge in apprenticeship numbers prompts fresh attacks on training levy (Telegraph)
- The UK is leading the way in crowdfunding and P2P lending as rest of Europe plays catch-up (CityAM covers University of Cambridge research)
- Spectrum Collections founders crowned Entrepreneur of the Year(FreshBusinessThinking covers Great British Entrepreneur Awards)
- Trust in business bosses jumps as social media the biggest bogeymen(CityAM covers the Edelman Trust Barometer)
Opinion
- The idea that companies should benefit society is as old as capitalism(Rodigo Tavares, founder and president, the Granito Group)
- Stop treating local shops as charity cases (Chris Bullivant, contributor, CapX)
- Carillion demise exposes shameful practices of corporates (Charlie Mullins, founder, Pimlico Plumbers)
- The free-market case for basic income (Sam Dumitriu, head of research, Adam Smith Institute)
- Why I’m not falling for another too-good-to-be-true VC-funded startup(Rosie Spinks, reporter, QZ)
Features