• UK firms ask for flexible rates
    • 18/06/2018
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    The UK’s SMEs are overwhelmingly calling for business rates to be made both simpler and more flexible, research from Close Brothers Asset Finance reveals. Overall, the figure stands at 71%, with businesses at the larger end of the scale feeling particularly frustrated (see table, below). Business Rates are a tax [...]
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  • Business backed by new Enterprise Bill
    • 21/09/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    The government has published an Enterprise Bill that aims to back business to drive growth, create more jobs and ensure economic security for all. The bill will help tackle the scandal of late payments holding back many small businesses, ensure high quality apprenticeships, and make further cuts to burdensome red [...]
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