BusyBusiness is an independent online publication for the people who run Britain's businesses — sole traders, directors, the self-employed and the self-employed. We write about all of it: funding, tax, hiring, sales, and the rules that change underneath you.
We are independent. No investor, platform or trade body owns us, and nobody pays for coverage. There is no advertorial on this site, and there never will be: what you read is journalism, written to be useful, not to sell you something.
Our standards are simple. Plain English — if a rule can be explained without an acronym, we explain it without one. UK-specific — the rules we write about are the ones that actually apply here. And honest about change: where a figure or threshold may move, we say “at the time of writing” and link the gov.uk page so you can check the current number yourself.
Nothing here is financial, legal or tax advice. It is journalism: carefully reported, clearly written, and meant to make your next conversation with a professional shorter and cheaper.