CPA – Prompting Punctual Payment   SME BUSINESS NEWS   A weekly round-up of press news and comment affecting your business Tuesday, 9th January 2018. www.cpa.co.uk   TAX   UK pledges to mitigate business’ Brexit damage from upfront VAT The

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly – recognising the types of payers you do business with! 5th January 2018.  Almost every business owner has to deal with delayed or late payment, and even bad debt and non-payers. They are

New CSA Code of Practice. 4th January 2018. The Credit Services Association, the voice of the collections industry and our trade body has released it’s new code of practice. The code of practice can be accessed on our accreditation’s page

Fraud investigation into insolvency firm abandoned. 2nd January 2018. Officials have dropped a criminal investigation into a firm of insolvency practitioners accused of a multimillion-pound fee fraud. Sheffield-based P&A Partnership had been accused of cheating creditors of scores of businesses

Warning issued over late payments. 2nd January 2018. Mike Cherry, chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses, has accused late payers of holding Britain’s small firms to ransom, suggesting this covers £18bn in payments, and has warned that the issue