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Posted by Alex Bellinger on 23rd January 2007.
The stereotypical accountant is conservative with a small ‘c’ and it would appear with a large ‘C’ too, if a new survey of 1,246 bean counters is anything to go by.
Nearly 70% of accountants said that David Cameron was more likely than Gordon Brown to cut the red tape afflicting small businesses. The research conducted for [...]
Posted by Alex Bellinger on 14th December 2006.
Post offices around the UK will make a £200 million loss this year, a loss currently subsidised by the British tax payer. Today’s much trailed announcement by Alistair Darling that 2,500 post offices will close therefore sounds like good business sense.
Why then should the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) have reacted so angrily to [...]
Posted by Alex Bellinger on 28th November 2006.
Lord Davidson today published his review into the implementation of EU legislation. It recommends cutting the red tape burden in areas such as consumer sales, financial services, transport and waste to bring about savings of up to £670 million.
But his recommendations don’t go far enough according to Tina Sommer, EU and International Affairs chair [...]
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