People starting new businesses are reminded that the Regional Employer National Insurance Holiday Scheme provides a 12-month National Insurance holiday for each of the first ten employees taken on in the first year of trading. So far, take-up of the scheme has been disappointing, with fewer than 20 per cent of the original target of 40,000 firms having taken advantage of it.
For more information, see http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/detail?itemId=1085763708&type=ONEOFFPAGE.