Plans to increase National Insurance levels for self-employed people – announced in the Budget last week – have been dropped. Chancellor Philip Hammond has said the government will not proceed with the increases which were criticised for breaking a 2015 manifesto pledge. The plans set out in the Spring Budget were to lower national insurance contributions
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Budget 2017: Thoughts and predictions from small businesses
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Here, we look at the hot topics concerning small business owners ahead of the 2017 Budget announcement, ranging from business rate hikes, to exchange rates to technology innovation. On business rate hikes Jonathan Richards, CEO at breatheHR comments, ‘Remember the prime minister’s first promise? ‘To make Britain a country that works for everyone’. Fast forward seven months
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Budget 2017: Tax breaks for SMEs key to PM’s productivity drive
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The government has been urged to make four key changes in the March Budget to encourage SMEs to make long-term investment plans for growth by Funding Options, the online business finance supermarket. Theresa May has often linked investment in business technology to Britain’s long standing productivity problem, and Funding Options says that the Chancellor can
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