Small Business Bonus will boost start-up and survival rates

ASK pretty much any economic commentator and they will tell you that one of the biggest factors holding back the Scottish economy is our historically low business birth rate, combined with the high number of businesses struggling to survive the first three difficult years of trading.

If we are serious about encouraging economic growth above our long term-trend, we need to address start-up rates and survivability, which was why the Small Business Rates Relief scheme was introduced in 2003, after years of campaigning by the Federat...