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Reading Time | 2 mins 19 Mar 2012

Employers give backing to pension changes

Reading Time • 2 minsA small majority of employers say they support plans to introduce the automatic enrolment of employees into a workplace pension scheme.
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Reading Time | < 1 min 19 Mar 2012

Intellectual property system to be reviewed

Reading Time • < 1 minThe government is to carry out a review of intellectual property and its value to the UK economy.
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Reading Time | < 1 min 19 Mar 2012

Businesses failing to exploit m-commerce

Reading Time • < 1 minNot enough businesses are making the most of the opportunities afforded by mobile commerce, a new study has suggested.
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Reading Time | < 1 min 19 Mar 2012

Tax system prompted firms to ponder moving abroad

Reading Time • < 1 minA report compiled on behalf of HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) found that one in five larger companies looked at re-locating abroad because of the UK's tax system.
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Reading Time | 2 mins 19 Mar 2012

Staff parking tax criticised by business group

Reading Time • 2 minsReports that councils may be considering the introduction of a levy on firms with private staff car parking spaces has provoked protest from a leading business group.
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Reading Time | 2 mins 19 Mar 2012

Firms recruiting overseas to close the skills gap

Reading Time • 2 minsA significant proportion of UK firms are looking abroad to find skilled workers in the absence of suitable job candidates at home.
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Reading Time | < 1 min 19 Mar 2012

State pension age could require ‘significant’ rise

Reading Time • < 1 minThe state pension age will need to rise to 72 over the next two decades if the government wishes to peg retirement costs to the public purse at the same level as existed in 1981.
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Reading Time | 2 mins 19 Mar 2012

Decline in business confidence may dent recovery

Reading Time • 2 minsA fall in business confidence could apply the brakes to the economic recovery later in the year, a new survey has suggested.
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Reading Time | < 1 min 19 Mar 2012

Recovery gains credibility from latest figures

Reading Time • < 1 minNew data on retail sales, tax receipts and the level of public debt for the third quarter of the year suggest that the economy is maintaining a level of recovery.
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