Small firms demand euro clarity
News The Federation claimed that scaremongering tactics and hype were used by Whitehall Mandarins and the IT sector to get small businesses to fork out for euro conversion projects. Although some firms stand to benefit from single currency transactions...
[February 19, 1999, 6:30]
Chancellor urged to ditch IR35
News Both the Professional Contractors Group (PCG) -- which recently lost a legal attempt to get IR35 axed -- and the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) have urged Brown to ditch the tax in the next budget, which will be delivered on 17 April.
[March 28, 2002, 16:59]
Budget 2002: Disappointment as chancellor fails to axe IR35
News Both the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) and the Professional Contractors Group (PCG) have urged Brown to bring an end to IR35, which has been blamed for driving thousands of self-employed IT workers overseas or out of business.
[April 17, 2002, 17:28]
Online safety push will target SMEs
News Get Safe Online is currently in discussions with various chambers of commerce and the Federation of Small Businesses to decide the best way to raise awareness of online safety issues. Businesses with very small numbers of staff often have the same...
[October 9, 2006, 16:50]
Rising tech costs put pressure on SMEs
News Peter Scargill, IT chairman for the UK's Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), agreed SMEs face increasing pressure from rising technology costs. SMEs upped their IT spending by eight percent in 2007, with increased outsourcing of IT among small...
[January 15, 2008, 8:00]
Businesses unaware of dangers of online crime
Blog Data contributed by the Federation of Small Businesses also pointed out that 54% of businesses had been victim to fraud or online crime in the past twelve months, 37% had had issues with phishing emails and a further 15% had experienced problems...
[October 13, 2009, 11:12]
Will Web 2.0 kill industry associations and networking organisations?
Blog WeCanDo.BIZ has membership of the Federation of Small Businesses, one of a number of industry bodies aimed at promoting the interests of UK-based small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), alongside things such as the Forum for Private Business...
[June 23, 2008, 14:06]
Businesses may be forced to fund e-crime unit
News Influence of big business over the unit concerned the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), with a spokeswoman saying larger companies may be rewarded with more say over its running in return for bigger contributions.
[March 18, 2008, 7:24]
Small businesses oppose software patents
News The legal burden is particularly onerous for smaller companies, and would threaten the existence of Europe's open-source software industry, the federation said. Three organisations representing about two million small and medium-sized European...
[September 19, 2003, 13:50]
Next virus attack to cost SMEs billions
News Peter Scargill, IT chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses, said: "Many SMEs agree that cybercrime is a serious issue but fail to protect all of their computers or update protection regularly. The next big computer virus attack could cost...
[November 22, 2002, 15:41]
UK business fears chaos over mobile number changes
News The Federation of Small Business (FSB) is concerned that many people are unaware of the change. This will cause a lot of confusion and result in financial losses to many businesses," warned an FSB spokesman.
[April 5, 2001, 9:56]
Campaign urges cheaper calls to mobiles
News The campaign was launched by BT and 3 UK in May this year, and is now supported by more than 60 organisations including the Post Office, The National Union of Students and the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).
[October 28, 2009, 14:54]
Surfing results in sacking
News David Hands, spokesman for the Federation of Small Businesses agrees. Richard Woods, spokesman for UUNet -- the leading provider of Internet access to UK businesses -- drew an analogy with a chocolate factory.
[June 16, 1999, 14:38]
Dell sponsors small business again
Blog The competition is open to innovators from any country and is sponsored by the US National Federation for Independent Business and globally by the International Council for Small Business and Endeavour, a global non-profit organisation "supporting...
[February 3, 2009, 15:55]
Firms ask government for more help getting online
News A spokesman for the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) confirms this. At the World Human Resource Conference in London Tuesday Education and Employment Secretary David Blunkett warns small businesses they will lose out in the new economy if they...
[April 6, 2000, 15:05]
Half the population ignorant of mobile number changes
News Earlier this month, the Federation of Small Business (FSB) said it was concerned that many people were still unaware of the changes. This will cause a lot of confusion and result in financial losses to many businesses," an FSB spokesman said.
[April 28, 2001, 7:05]
Copyright directive 'will stifle EU competition'
News When the draft was first introduced in January, it drew a "dismayed" reaction from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) and other copyright-holder lobbyists, which called for the proposed measures to be beefed up.
[August 5, 2003, 16:35]
