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Reading Time | < 1 min 21 Mar 2012

Business views sought on changes to customs law

Reading Time • < 1 minHM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has created a questionnaire allowing firms, particularly smaller businesses, to share their views on changes to customs laws.
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Reading Time | < 1 min 21 Mar 2012

Tax gap widens

Reading Time • < 1 minThe amount of uncollected tax rose in the last financial year.
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Reading Time | < 1 min 21 Mar 2012

VAT may be pushing up prices earlier

Reading Time • < 1 minSome businesses may be looking at raising their prices sooner rather than later in anticipation of the VAT hike set for January next year.
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Reading Time | 2 mins 21 Mar 2012

Spending cuts must not hinder growth, says CBI

Reading Time • 2 minsThe government must ensure that the spending cuts to be announced in the forthcoming comprehensive spending review do not put the brakes on economic growth, the CBI has argued.
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Reading Time | 2 mins 21 Mar 2012

EU maternity leave proposals deemed ‘unaffordable’

Reading Time • 2 minsA leading business group has described changes to maternity leave planned by the EU as "unaffordable".
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Reading Time | 2 mins 21 Mar 2012

Employers unprepared for older workforces

Reading Time • 2 minsA third of UK workers could be aged over 50 by 2020, but employers are not ready for the changes, a new report has claimed.
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Reading Time | < 1 min 21 Mar 2012

Dropping time to train would confirm a commitment to better regulation

Reading Time • < 1 minThe government's review of planned regulation to give employees the right to request time to train is a litmus test of its commitment to reducing the burden of business regulation, the Institute of Directors (IoD) has said.
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Reading Time | < 1 min 21 Mar 2012

Pension funds slip back into deficit

Reading Time • < 1 minFinal salary pension funds in the UK have dipped back into deficit, new figures have revealed.
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Reading Time | 2 mins 21 Mar 2012

Concerns over centralised PAYE proposal

Reading Time • 2 minsA leading business group has expressed worries over suggestions that employees' gross pay could be transferred to a central HM Revenue and Customs' computer.
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