The Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) is a piece of government legislation that was designed to help kick start the British economic resurgence following the global financial crisis of 2009. One of the key principles of a nation’s economic growth is entrepreneurship and enterprise, and yet as British banks cautiously tightened the purse strings, it […]
Tech North Can Leave London’s Tech City in its Wake
With all the headlines that London’s “Tech City” has been making in the last 12 months, the number of potential successful tech start-ups coming out of the north of England could be forgiven for being a touch disgruntled by the lack of exposure their own movement is receiving. This is further exemplified by the fact […]
Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme
The Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) is a government-backed tax incentive aiming to help small startup companies raise finance from investors in return for an equity stake in the business. Chancellor George Osborne introduced SEIS in his Budget 2012. SEIS started on April 6, 2012 and by the end of the 2012-13 tax year, 1,120 […]