pre-Budget report for small business

The pre-Budget report happened yesterday, don’t know if you heard. As usual, it was seen as something of a mixed bag for small businesses; the Tories and the big accountancy firms said it smacked of ‘buy now, pay later’, but small business groups said it provided some welcome short-term relief.
The big headlines were a £7bn [...]

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Thousands of small pubs at risk

High taxes and competition from cut-price supermarkets are killing small community based pubs and thousands will go bust unless we do something about it.
The Campaign of Real Ale (CAMRA) says around 7,500 (one in eight) will go bust by 2012 if the government doesn’t intervene.
It wants to see lower VAT, cuts to beer taxes and [...]

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