{"id":521189,"date":"2020-02-28T07:15:17","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T07:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/?p=521189"},"modified":"2020-03-26T11:09:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T11:09:08","slug":"budget-to-boost-startups-ibm-climate-change-challenge-sick-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/2020\/02\/28\/budget-to-boost-startups-ibm-climate-change-challenge-sick-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"A scaleup friendly budget, a new IBM climate change challenge and the curse of sick leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of any Budget, there is always great speculation on what may be announced. This year, the focus thus far has been on when a Budget would happen and who will deliver it.<\/p>\n<p>But with the new chancellor Rishi Sunak confirming that it will go ahead on 11 March, all attention has turned to the content.<\/p>\n<p>One major issue this year is the possible reform of entrepreneurs\u2019 relief.<\/p>\n<p>This relief allows entrepreneurs to pay less capital gains tax when they sell all or part of their business. It is an important incentive for later-stage business owners, and we would certainly caution against scaling it back \u2014 more so than ever given the importance of sending the message that the UK is open for business post-Brexit.<\/p>\n<p>However, of equal importance to get right is to make sure that we maintain the reliefs that enable businesses to progress from the startup phase, and reduce the restrictions and complexity that, all too often, are real stumbling blocks at this early stage.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, it would be fair to argue that making these reliefs work better and be easier to access matters just as much during a company\u2019s startup stage as entrepreneurs\u2019 relief does at later stages.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.smartcitiesworld.net\/news\/news\/coders-invited-to-tackle-climate-change-in-global-challenge-5063<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of any Budget, there is always great speculation on what may be announced. This year, the focus thus far has been on when a Budget would happen and who will deliver it. But with the new chancellor Rishi Sunak confirming that it will go ahead on 11 March, all attention has turned to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":521245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34355],"tags":[],"hashtag":[26985],"type-d-article":[23048],"maddybasic_maturity":[],"maddybasic_thematic":[],"partnership":[],"poool":[],"class_list":["post-521189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","hashtag-maddybrief","type-d-article-classique"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521189"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":522923,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521189\/revisions\/522923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521189"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=521189"},{"taxonomy":"type-d-article","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/type-d-article?post=521189"},{"taxonomy":"maddybasic_maturity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/maddybasic_maturity?post=521189"},{"taxonomy":"maddybasic_thematic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/maddybasic_thematic?post=521189"},{"taxonomy":"partnership","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/partnership?post=521189"},{"taxonomy":"poool","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poool?post=521189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}