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Reading Time | 3 mins 12 Mar 2012

Business finance management

Reading Time • 3 minsDuring a recession, it is even more important to maintain a strict financial management policy.
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Reading Time | 2 mins 12 Mar 2012

Quantitative easing: how it may or may not help beat the recession

Reading Time • 2 minsWith interest rates approaching zero and little sign that making money cheaper is having any effect on the economy, the Bank of England has decided to make it more abundant as well.
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Reading Time | 2 mins 12 Mar 2012

Business lease terms should be more flexible

Reading Time • 2 minsThe British Retail Consortium (BRC) has re-iterated its call for more flexible lease terms in a week that saw many businesses facing large quarterly rent bills.
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Small employers ‘unaware’ of extra holidays for staff

Reading Time • < 1 minA large number of small firms appear to be unaware that the statutory minimum holiday entitlement is to rise for employees.
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Recession tax relief measures may ‘discriminate’ against businesses

Reading Time • < 1 minUnincorporated businesses could miss out on a tax relief scheme introduced by the Chancellor in the pre-Budget Report.
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Government should ‘scrap’ double business rates hit

Reading Time • < 1 minThe government must act to reduce the burden that planned increases in business rates are likely to impose on smaller firms.
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Charities to experience drop in corporate donations

Reading Time • < 1 minCharities look set to suffer a sharp fall in the donations they receive from businesses.
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Change to car benefit reporting on form P46

Reading Time • < 1 minHM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has reminded employers that the rules on reporting car benefits change as from 6 April 2009.
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Reading Time | 2 mins 12 Mar 2012

VAT decision will be a ‘tax on jobs’

Reading Time • 2 minsThe Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) has expressed its dismay at learning that the government intends to go ahead with plans to drop the VAT staff hire concession as from 1 April.
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