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Reading Time | < 1 min 14 Mar 2012

New VAT filing system due to come into effect

Reading Time • < 1 minHM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has reminded businesses that new rules on how VAT returns are submitted and payments are made will be coming into force next year.
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Reading Time | < 1 min 14 Mar 2012

Online sales show return to form

Reading Time • < 1 minInternet shopping recorded a 15.7 per cent rise in July compared with the previous month, a new survey has revealed.
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Reading Time | 2 mins 14 Mar 2012

Tax breaks would boost ‘value’ of operating leases

Reading Time • 2 minsTax breaks that are available to profitable businesses when buying equipment should be extended to those SMEs that take out new operating leases.
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Reading Time | < 1 min 14 Mar 2012

SME share scheme gets long-term EU support

Reading Time • < 1 minA share scheme designed to help SMEs recruit and keep talented staff has been given the long-term backing of the European Commission.
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Reading Time | 2 mins 14 Mar 2012

Upturn in business confidence heralds ‘end’ of recession

Reading Time • 2 minsA surge in confidence among business professionals could suggest that UK is about to emerge from the recession.
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Reading Time | < 1 min 14 Mar 2012

Government urged to fund more apprenticeships

Reading Time • < 1 minThe government needs to provide extra subsidies for apprenticeship schemes if unemployment among young people is not to become entrenched.
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Reading Time | < 1 min 14 Mar 2012

Stakeholder pensions could be approaching ‘obsolescence’

Reading Time • < 1 minSales of stakeholder pensions have fallen by 28 per cent in the last year, prompting speculation that the schemes are nearing the end of their usefulness.
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Reading Time | < 1 min 14 Mar 2012

Fall in tax receipts means VAT to rise as planned

Reading Time • < 1 minThere seems no prospect that the cut in VAT will be extended beyond the planned end of the year reversion to the old rate after it was revealed that tax revenues have fallen sharply.
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Reading Time | < 1 min 14 Mar 2012

Government broadens its trade credit insurance scheme

Reading Time • < 1 minThe government has amended its trade credit insurance top-up scheme so that more businesses can take advantage of it.
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