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Wysłany: Pon Paź 25, 2021 5:47 am Temat postu: Budget: Don’t hit us again, businesses begs chance |
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If government and business were a couple, a guidance counselor might have been called in by now to repair a strained relationship.
This week's budget will be a test to see if the mood music can improve, after a number of fractious years.
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Relations seemed to hit an all-time low when the prime minister famously dismissed business concerns over the brinksmanship, during the Brexit negotiations, with a four letter expression of his lack of sympathy.
Then the argument became more physical. A whopping rise in corporation tax from 2023, from 19 to 25%, reversed at a stroke a decade of Tory business tax policy.
The chancellor then raised employers' national insurance contributions by 1.25%, adding £6bn a year to a wage bill that was already rising.Those rising wages were celebrated by the PM at the Conservative Party Conference - Boris Johnson insisted it was evidence that the UK. was on its way to higher wage more productive economy.But Economists will tell you the productivity gains are supposed to come first.
And all this against a backdrop of business feeling they were being blamed for labor, driver and petrol shortages, that have hampered the recovery of many parts of the economy.Meanwhile the government is urging, even expecting, the private sector to lead the UK into greener, more sustainable pastures by investing heavily.
As Tony Danker, head of the CBI recently put it: "You cannot will the ends and ignore the means to turbocharge the economy.
"The government wants business to drive investment and innovation but its tax policy is working in the other direction."
The government will point to the fact that the businesses that do invest have already been rewarded by the so-called "super-deduction" introduced in the March budget. |
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