Business

Thousands of families hit with inheritance tax bills on gifts – how to reduce your liability

More than 5,000 estates paid over £1 billion in inheritance tax on lifetime gifts between 2020/21 and 2023/24, according...

Hiring freelancers vs employees – navigating the legal and financial differences

Growing your business is a truly exciting time, but you still want to be sensible...

Inside the creator economy’s AI reckoning

Few phenomena within the creator economy have moved as fast as AI’s embrace. What was once treated with anxious...

Hospitality and leisure firms in Wales to get 30% cut in business rates

Welsh pubs, restaurants, cafés, bars, licensed clubs,...

Pipedrive Launches Nova AI Tool to Cut Sales Admin Work

Sales teams often face a familiar tradeoff: spend more time talking with prospects or spend more time documenting those...

85 per cent of finance leaders say roles more complex since 2020

Eighty-five per cent of senior leaders in the UK financial services sector say their roles have become more complex...

eBay offers 20 grants of £10,000 to young entrepreneurs and employers

eBay UK has launched the second year of its Up & Running Grants programme, putting up to £200,000 behind...

Ladbrokes owner Entain to cut 400 jobs as it warns over gambling tax

Entain, the owner of Ladbrokes and Coral, is consulting on cutting around 400 customer-service roles, mainly in the UK,...

KPMG to cut 200 UK advisory roles as too few consultants quit

KPMG has confirmed it will make about 200 roles redundant in its UK advisory division over the coming weeks,...

Sam Altman says world should trust AI firms to keep technology safe

Sam Altman, chief executive of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, said yesterday that the public should trust AI companies to keep...

Healey faces £10bn gap as borrowing costs hit 19-year high

John Healey, the chancellor, will need to find about £10bn in tax rises or spending cuts in the government’s...