Budget 2011: Small Businesses Campaign Against Rates and Fuel Duty

Posted by kelly in Latest Press! | 2 Mar 11, 11:23 AM

The Federation of Small Businesses has called for a budget that provides economic stability.

Small businesses have come out against the re-localisation of business rates as part of calls to the Treasury to make the March budget “business friendly”.

The business rates policy , proposed by the Department for Communities and Local Government and backed by Business Secretary Vince Cable, is a key plank in the Coalitions plan to reduce local authority dependency on Whitehall for funding.

However, the Federation of Small Businesses, the largest small business organisation, is campaigning against the move as part of its Budget submission.

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One in 10 permanently in the red

Posted by kelly in Latest Press! | 2 Mar 11, 10:59 AM

One in 10 Britons are premanently overdrawn and more than a third have dipped into the red at least once during the past year.

Almost 10p% of people admit that their current account is never in the black and 37% of consumers are either always overdrawn or have used their overdraft facility at some point during the past 12 months according to moneysupermarket.com.

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