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Reading Time | 2 mins 09 Mar 2012

Call to ease employment regulations

Reading Time • 2 minsThe government needs to review the burden imposed on employers by employment rules and regulations in order to tackle unemployment and to make sure the jobs market grows once the downturn is over.
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Reading Time | < 1 min 09 Mar 2012

Tax breaks urged for savers

Reading Time • < 1 minSavers should be offered tax incentives as way of combating the poor returns currently being delivered by savings accounts, a leading banker has argued.
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Reading Time | 2 mins 09 Mar 2012

Taxpayers can delay self assessment payments

Reading Time • 2 minsSelf assessment taxpayers who are experiencing difficulties in meeting their 31 January tax bills can ask to delay payment.
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Reading Time | < 1 min 09 Mar 2012

Online sales hit record levels

Reading Time • < 1 minAs the high street continues to reel under the pressures of the economic downturn, e-retailers enjoyed a record-breaking Christmas.
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Reading Time | < 1 min 09 Mar 2012

Savings returns dip to new low

Reading Time • < 1 minSavers have been confronted with more bad news on the release of figures from the Bank of England showing that savings accounts are paying out the lowest interest rates since 1995.
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Reading Time | 4 mins 09 Mar 2012

Government lending package to support small businesses

Reading Time • 4 minsThe government has unveiled details of plans designed to provide SMEs with easier access to credit and to help with the cash flow problems afflicting many firms as the economic downturn deepens.
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Reading Time | < 1 min 09 Mar 2012

Late tax payments and the construction industry

Reading Time • < 1 minSub-contractors in the construction industry probably know that having a clean tax record is vital if they want to retain their gross payment status (the thing that stops them from having to pay a 20 per cent sub-contractor tax).
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Reading Time | 2 mins 09 Mar 2012

Economic decline now at ‘unprecedented rate’, says BCC

Reading Time • 2 minsThe UK economy is slowing down at a profoundly disturbing rate, the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) has said after publishing the results of its latest quarterly survey.
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Reading Time | 2 mins 09 Mar 2012

Business rates hike should be dropped

Reading Time • 2 minsThe government has been urged to reconsider plans to raise the amount of tax that retailers pay on their properties.
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