Small businesses are losing millions of pounds because of the failure by HM Revenue & Customs to deal with queries.
According to Andrew Tyrie - Conservative MP for Chichester, & chair of the Commons’ Treasury select committee – the ‘collateral damage’ that failed investigations are causing is ‘huge’. During a debate in the House of Commons [...]

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It is widely anticipated that George Osborne will use the upcoming budget later this month to begin tackling an escalating VAT dodge on the sale of goods including CDs, DVDs, memory cards, vitamin pills and contact lenses.
The VAT avoidance involves many high profile British retailers & is thought to have lost the government upwards [...]

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The BCC has written to the Chancellor with a revised economic forecast & its recommendations for encouraging business growth.
It expresses the need for government to instigate the innovative policies & changes that are vital to promote the growth in enterprise it purports to support.
Among its recommendations it proposes that the government discontinue or put [...]

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After inviting comments & feedback from small businesses on the problems they’ve experienced in procuring contracts with them, the government has introduced a range of measures designed to make it easier to do so.
The Government considers small businesses vital to the growth of the economy & wants to optimize their ability to tender for billions [...]

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Earlier this week the chancellor – George Osborne - announced a deal between the coalition government & the banks with regard to bonuses, taxation & lending – Project Merlin.
The deal has been met with strong criticism from the Labour Party, many economists & the unions, as well as members of the coalition with the [...]

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Not everyone is going to agree with everything your business sells, its service etc. So it’s inevitable that from time to time you’re going to be faced with some complaints. So how can you handle complaints in a way that means you gain customers and retain staff?
Customer complaints aren’t usually welcomed by small business owners [...]

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Sun, Sea & Sandy Laptops
Finding it difficult to tear yourself away from the office for a summer break? Apparently, it’s not as uncommon as you may have originally thought!
Euroffice.co.uk – the UKs leading supplier of discount stationary – found in a recent survey of small and medium sized businesses that 35% of us are still [...]

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Experiential marketing allows customers to engage with and interact with your brand, products and services, using one or more of the senses in some sort of emotional or tangible way.
Experiential marketing is often known as the difference between telling people about your product and letting them experience the benefits for themselves so that they are [...]

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