Rebates to speed small firms’ e-commerce use
3 April 2012
Planned tax rebates could accelerate the rate of e-commerce adoption among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), writes Elizabeth Bellamy.
In a bid to encourage one million small firms to go online, the chancellor of the exchequer, Gordon Brown, announced rebates for SMEs investing in e-commerce and buying new IT over the next three years in his budget speech last month. The rebates would allow firms to write off purchase costs, which are likely to cover hardware and software, as well as Internet-enabled...