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SMEs that rely on large companies as clients have always suffered from a power imbalance when it comes to paying bills, and the situation seems to be getting worse. It’s been estimated £266bn is being withheld from SMEs through late payment, and there are signs this has been increasing since the Brexit vote. Duty to Report All political parties are promising action, and the Duty to Report measures were introduced in

You’d think that getting paid for work or sales would be at the top of the priority list for any company. It seems, though, that many SMEs are only too willing to write off any debt that presents difficulties. SMEs and Bad Debt Although they don’t get media coverage like the giants, SMEs are the lifeblood of UK business. Government research last year showed that more than 99% of the country’s businesses are SMEs, 1.3

I have, as Baldrick would say, a cunning plan for the next government of whatever political hue they might be. It’s to sort out the continuing scandal of late payment that bedevils small firms in this country. Now, I may be doing myself out of some business here, because when small firms don’t get paid, they can get into debt and even go under. And that’s when SJ Collections are called in by creditors to assist in ge

If I told you that small and medium-sized companies were owed nearly £40 billion as a result of late payments, I think you’d be rightly shocked. But the figure of £39.4 billion comes from the latest research by BACS Payment Schemes, the direct debit company. Such is the scale of the debt burden on SMEs, up from £30bn last year, 60% told BACS they were experiencing late payments with the average company waiting for £3