How can your business benefit from the recent changes to R&D tax relief?
HMRC are changing the R&D tax relief regime. This means there are more chances than ever for SMEs to claim money for a growing list of eligible activities. If you’re not clear on how these might affect your business, please contact one of RfM Transform’s R&D experts today.
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Supreme Court ruling on Harpur Trust vs Brazel
The HR landscape changes all the time. Last month, the Supreme Court made an important ruling that could affect many businesses in the UK. The Court ruled that employees that only work for part of the year are entitled to the same holiday pay as their full-time colleagues. The case, The Harpur Trust v Brazel, could have significant repercussions. Are you prepared for how it might impact your business?
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Recovery Loan Scheme extension
Businesses are still recovering from the lockdown and the Covid-19 pandemic. New challenges are emerging with increasing costs coming from all sides. The government has made the decision to extend the vital support scheme that provided Government-backed loans to almost 19,000 UK SMEs since the scheme’s inception in 2021. We explain more below.
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Stop. Start. Continue.
We're all busy. And being busy can mean that we're not always as focused as we'd like to be. It's very easy, especially as a business leader, to get caught up in the everyday realities of running the business, focusing on the needs of clients, customers and staff. But are you actually doing the right thing? Or are you missing the bigger picture? Is the business suffering precisely because you're so busy running around doing everything? You may need to ask yourself: what should I stop doing, what should I start doing and what should I just keep cracking on with!?
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GDPR: seven principles, seven rights
Let's face it, GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) seems difficult. There is no doubt that an act of law with 99 individual articles is a complex piece of legislation. But the GDPR rules were passed for a simple reason: to protect personal data. And that, fundamentally, is a very good thing. Whilst there are difficulties, if you hold on to just two things – the seven principles and the seven rights of GDPR which we outline below – you will find you have the beginnings of a good understanding of the basics of the legislation.
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Save some money, get a carbon audit
What are the biggest pressures on SMEs today... and how could a carbon audit help? Businesses need to focus on several things at once: delighting their customers; improving their product; growth opportunities -- and that's just for starters. But they also need to keep a very close eye on ever-rising costs.
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