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Reading Time | < 1 min 16 Mar 2012

New regulations to outlaw blacklisting

Reading Time • < 1 minThe government is to introduce new rules making it illegal for members of trades unions to be denied employment through blacklists.
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Reading Time | 2 mins 16 Mar 2012

Innovation seeing small firms through the recession

Reading Time • 2 minsMany small businesses have been able to negotiate the recession by creating new products and services, but still need support through tax cuts, a major new survey has claimed.
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Reading Time | < 1 min 16 Mar 2012

Homes to prop up retirement savings

Reading Time • < 1 minA significant number of people are planning to use the value of their homes to support their retirement income, new research has suggested.
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Reading Time | 4 mins 16 Mar 2012

What could the pre-Budget Report include?

Reading Time • 4 minsThe Chancellor, Alistair Darling will be rising to his feet in the Commons at 12.30pm on Wednesday 9 December to deliver his pre-election pre-Budget Report.
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Reading Time | 3 mins 16 Mar 2012

Business groups’ wish lists for the pre-Budget Report

Reading Time • 3 minsOver the past weeks, business organisations have been submitting their recommendations to the Chancellor ahead of the pre-Budget Report.
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Reading Time | 2 mins 16 Mar 2012

Pensions could suffer if entrepreneurs shy from occupational schemes

Reading Time • 2 minsPlans by the government to cut pension tax relief for high earners could have an adverse effect on workplace pension schemes, it has been warned.
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Reading Time | 3 mins 16 Mar 2012

Tax incentives and better regulation ‘help’ green policies

Reading Time • 3 minsTax breaks and a simplification of both regulations and information can help encourage more small firms to embrace environment friendly policies, a new survey has revealed.
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Reading Time | < 1 min 16 Mar 2012

Rise in inheritance tax threshold may be frozen

Reading Time • < 1 minPlans to exclude more homeowners from inheritance tax charges may become a victim of the effects of the recession, it has been suggested.
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Reading Time | 2 mins 16 Mar 2012

Pre-Budget Report must ‘support’ business investment

Reading Time • 2 minsThe Chancellor should use the pre-Budget Report to provide firms with the sort of financial environment necessary for progressive investment.
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