Here at Ward Williams we subscribe to a weekly delivery of fruit to each of our offices. The business case for providing fruit in the workplace is strong.  Providing fresh fruit to staff is the most cost-effective employee benefit which in turn increases staff productivity and promotes staff health and wellbeing. Most of the fruit is sourced from the UK and Western Europe to ...

New R&D legislation was published on 20 July 2022. Changes being introduced from 1 April 2023 will affect: companies claiming Research and Development Expenditure Credit (RDEC). small or medium enterprises (SME) R&D relief. companies that have made a Patent Box election. Whilst there are currently no major structural changes, the following are now confirmed: ...

All employers are required to pay their staff either the National Living Wage (for those aged 23 and over) or National Minimum Wage (for those of at least school leaving age). The Living Wage Foundation is a charity that campaigns for improved rates of pay for those on low wages, with accredited employers, including many charities, committed to paying their staff at pay rates o ...

The director of a Manchester pizza takeaway who fraudulently claimed a £20,000 bounce back loan has been jailed for two years. Abdulrazag Zagroba, 54, from Manchester, appeared at Manchester Crown Court on Friday 24 June 2022 where he was sentenced to 24 months before Recorder Hudson. This was the first successful criminal prosecution of a bounce bank loan fraudster for the I ...

Details have been published of how the Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Business Rates Relief Scheme will work. The scheme only applies to England, and it will only apply for the 2022/23 financial year. The scheme will provide a 50% reduction in business rates for eligible properties up to a limit of £110,000 per corporate group. Eligible occupied properties are those which are ...