Business group urges Chancellor not to increase taxes on small businesses
Tags: economy, national insurance, national insurance contributions, NIC, pre budget report, recession, small business, tax
A leading business group has warned that small businesses will suffer if the Chancellor raises taxes on small businesses in the Pre Budget Report.
Raising taxes for small businesses would ultimately cost the UK billions of pounds and hundreds of thousands of jobs, according to a new independent report for the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB). The report, by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR), argues that increasing the burden of taxation on the country’s small businesses – which make up 99 per cent of all UK businesses – would plunge the economy further into debt and take its … Continue Reading




