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Small and micro business: news and insights

Interviews, reflections and commentary on key issues affecting small and micro businesses.
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News and insights

Interviews, reflections and commentary on key issues affecting small and micro businesses.
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Member Insights 2025: Lessons in resilience
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  • 18 Dec 2025
Across the year, members navigated a challenging mix of rising employment costs, geopolitical tensions, tariff disruption, subdued consumer confidence and a persistent lack of policy certainty.
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Cyber roundup: Learnings from 2025
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  • 18 Dec 2025
This year has been eventful, marked by high-profile cyber incidents, advancements in technology and AI influencing cybercrime and security, evolving AI regulation, and an increased focus on national cyber resilience. In light of these developments, this month's cyber roundup outlines the key lessons learned from 2025.
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Cyber resilience: key considerations for 2026
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  • 15 Dec 2025
Which cyber developments will be particularly vital to watch in the next 12 months? The Financial Times's 2025 Cyber Resilience Summit picked out key trends.
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Your membership: Support on running businesses
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  • 15 Dec 2025
ICAEW provides a whole host of resources for members working in industry, whether you’re working for a start-up, an established business looking to grow or an organisation managing change.
Can the government’s Business Growth Service get small businesses growing?
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  • 15 Dec 2025
The Business Growth Service is designed to make it easier for small businesses to find the support they need.
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Non-Big Four firms grow PIE audit share
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  • 08 Dec 2025
The FRC’s latest Audit Market and Competition Update shows that, while the Big Four still lead when it comes to number of PIE audits, the share going to other firms is growing.
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Budget: Key changes impacting business taxation
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  • 26 Nov 2025
ICAEW’s Tax Faculty provides a summary of some of the changes affecting businesses announced at the Budget, including capital allowances and business rates as well as adjustments to penalty rates for late corporation tax filings and increasing the limits for venture capital reliefs.
Extending deemed reseller rules to combat VAT fraud – can it work?
  • Article
  • 26 Nov 2025
Amazon proposes a change to the rules for online marketplaces that would mean the marketplace collects VAT on all third-party sales. Ed Saltmarsh analyses the practicality of the proposal ahead of the Budget.
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Latest Business news from Insights
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Read the latest business articles published in ICAEW's Insights hub.
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Ukraine hub
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Visit our Ukraine hub for the latest on sanctions, ethical guidance and reputational risk.
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Brexit – impact on ICAEW members
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