The International Community Forum analyses how cities utilise digital technologies for economic and social development. The Intelligent Community Forum is a think tank that studies the economic and social development of the 21st Century community.  Whether in industrial or developing nations, communities are challenged to create prosperity, stability and cultural meaning in a world where [...]

David Cameron has announced the government’s ambition for London to become a world-leading technology city to rival Silicon Valley. The government aims to utilise the 2012 Olympic Park as a space for technology companies and entrepreneurship to flourish. We’re not just going to back the big businesses of today, we’re going to back the big businesses of [...]

If your business location is outside of Greater London,  the South East and East of England your business may be eligible for up to £50,000 NIC reduction. For a limited period new start ups that began from from 22 June 2010 to 5 September 2013 may be eligible for £5,000 of NICs to be deducted for each [...]

This newsletter by John Mauldin on the future of public debt provides a great insight into the economic challenges facing countries in the developed world. The Future of Public Debt For the rest of this letter, and probably next week as well, we are going to look at a paper from the Bank of International [...]

HMRC in a round table discussion stated that doctors and dentists pose a serious tax risk, which is a rather curious way of putting it. HMRC targets certain sectors where they believe substantial income has not been declared, which is driving the HMRC Tax Health plan. Dave Hartnett the Permanent Secretary for Tax and Commissioner of HM Revenue & [...]

2010 will see HMRC carefully scrutinising medical professionals. Doctors, Dentists and other medical professionals will find their financial affairs under greater scrutiny this year. HMRC introduced the Tax Health Plan, “as an opportunity for medical professionals with tax to pay to get their affairs up to date with the benefit of a fixed penalty.” Doctors and dentists [...]

HM Revenue and Customs have recently taken a number of residence cases to the commissioners and all the cases the tax payer has been found to be UK resident. We expect HMRC to continue scrutinise claims to be non- resident as the tax stakes are high Breaking the UK Residence If you want to cease [...]

In the post-analysis of the second London G20 summit tackling the global economic crisis we look at some of the conflicting views and analyses in the build up to the September summit in Pittsburgh. Nouriel Roubini continues to warn of a double dip recession: There are also now two reasons why there is a rising [...]

The IMF has revised its economic predictions for the UK. It anticipates that the UK will emerge out of the recession by the end of the year, and the IMF also raised its forecast for global growth in 2010. This is good news for UK business, however business leaders across the SME sector need to increasingly understand and [...]

Companies that understand and harness digital technologies will have an edge over their competitors. Harvard Business Review have a special section on discovering the New Economy, which we think is rather interesting. In this article entitled ‘Twitter’s Ten Rules for Radical Innovators’ Umair Haque points to new rules that may shape business in the web [...]