Weymouth & Portland Chamber of Commerce

George Osborne presented his first Budget on Tuesday 22 June 2010. Download a report from Chamber members Coyne Butterworth Hardwicke.

How does the 2010 Budget affect you? Click here for a breakdown from Direct.gov

After attending the Open 4 Business launch at The Pavilion, Weymouth in early October, I thought I would share some in the information I heard that morning from the South West Regional Development Agency about our regional economy.

A number of major economies moved out of recession in the second quarter of 2009, nevertheless, we must [...]

During the last round of Local Ratepayers meetings in July, it was suggested that it might be helpful to provide some text to help remind your members about the availability of rate relief for small businesses.
Tony Capp from our Data Strategy team has now provided this information for the LRF members:
“Members are reminded that the [...]

Article sent in from chamber member Jan Merriott BSc., MRICS – www.bartlepye.co.uk
Did you know you are entitled to defer rates over 10 instalments?
Here we go again…
Beginning to gear up for 2010 and information beginning to become available
Current rateable values based upon 2005 rental values and new rates coming into effect April 2010 based on market rentals [...]

You can still save tax by operating your business through a company rather than as a sole trader or partnership, but the level of tax savings will depend on the range of salary, dividends and benefits that you want to take out of the company.
If you take a salary equal to the personal allowance of [...]

With effect from April 2009 the capital allowance treatment of all cars will be reformed to favour those with low CO2 emissions.
Expenditure on cars with CO2 emissions above 160g/km will attract 10% writing down allowance (WDA) while expenditure on cars with CO2 emissions of 160g/km or below will attract 20% WDA.
The rules which disallow a [...]

The car scrappage scheme is being deemed a success by the Government as figures showed 35,000 vehicles have been ordered since the launch earlier this month.
The £300m scheme was introduced by the government to stimulate the UK’s ailing car industry, which had seen orders slump since the start of the credit crunch. In March, new [...]

The business rate relief which can be claimed by small businesses is not widely known. The amount of relief depends on the rateable value. Is the rateable value of your premises less than £15,000? Additional properties with rateable values below £2,200 are disregarded when considering applications for small business rate relief. However, the rateable value [...]