Companies who have taken on large levels of debt or require further funding run the risk of becoming zombie companies where all their profits are used to service debt, say leading tax and advisory firm, Blick Rothenberg Richard Churchill, a parter at the firm said: ” This results in no growth, reinvestment or return to […]Read More

Hooray Health & Protection is planning to donate 100% of company profits to an NHS charity until January 2021, in support of frontline workers. The employee life and income insurance specialist for SMEs is raising funds for Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Charity (BSUH). The money will help provide supplies and training, ensuring the welfare […]Read More

The Happy Club is a new app, which according to its creators, is aiming ‘to make the world a more loving place.’ In a year where there has been a global pandemic, a wave of political uncertainty and mass social and ideological divisiveness, such positivity is undoubtedly welcome. According to its creators, if you use […]Read More

Small Business Saturday launches UK’s first virtual roadshow to support small businesses Small businesses across the UK are being offered a major new package of support and mentoring, as Small Business Saturday UK launches the UK’s first online roadshow for towns and cities affected by the pandemic. Launching on 2 November 2020 with daily ‘virtual […]Read More

REUTERS ECONOMIC recovery in the Asia Pacific will take divergent paths, with countries failing to contain their outbreaks such as India and the Philippines expected to take longer to revive, S&P Global Ratings said. S&P Global said the result might be a so-called “K-shaped recovery” with the charts of some economies tracking downward while the […]Read More

THE Department of Energy (DoE) has ordered the extension of grace periods and staggered payment schemes for power after the government maintained its declaration of a state of calamity due to the global coronavirus pandemic. Republic Act No. 11494, or the Bayanihan to Recover as One Act (Bayanihan II), requires the entire electricity value chain […]Read More

PHILSTAR THE GOVERNMENT will focus on 32 provinces and cities with low active case counts for the coronavirus when pre-registration for the National ID system starts next week, economic planners said. In an online briefing Tuesday, National Economic and Development Authority Undersecretary Rosemarie G. Edillon said the government has narrowed down the priority provinces to […]Read More

PIXABAY/DAVID LEE By Zsarlene B. Chua, Senior Reporter HOTELS AND RESORTS in many areas will be allowed to accept guests again starting Oct. 1, with the Department of Tourism (DoT) hoping to restart operations geared towards domestic holidaymakers with a “safe staycation” campaign. “We welcome the approval of the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management […]Read More

BW FILE PHOTO A SENATE committee on Tuesday weighed the President’s legal authority to expedite the issuance of permits and sanction officials who fail to do so in deliberations over a bill seeking to endow the Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA) with the power to issue subpoenas or find respondents in contempt. The Committee on Civil […]Read More

PHILIPPINE STAR/MICHAEL VARCAS THE PHILIPPINES has logged 14 new African Swine Fever (ASF) outbreaks, according to the latest report by the Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI). In the latest report to the World Organization for Animal Health, BAI Director Ronnie D. Domingo said that an additional 7,518 pigs were culled due to the new outbreaks. […]Read More