MPs: scrap employer NI for under-25s or lose a generation
Employers should pay no National Insurance on any worker under 25, MPs have told the government, after hearing “overwhelming evidence” that the current regime is...
More jets, less money: Farnborough day two value falls 34 per cent
Britain’s aerospace supply chain took £2.6 billion of fresh work out of a single day at Farnborough this week, even as the headline value of...
Six in ten firms cut R&D spending after HMRC fraud crackdown
The reforms designed to clean up Britain’s £8 billion research and development tax credit scheme have worked rather too well. More than six in ten...
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In the early nineties I used to go to the dogs at Walthamstow with a man called Terry, who sold tips in brown envelopes for...
Vending ban on energy drinks to cost industry £43m a year
A blanket ban on selling high-caffeine energy drinks from vending machines will strip £43 million a year from an industry dominated by small operators, the...
Rolls-Royce gives Healey a deadline: back us now or we build abroad
Rolls-Royce has put Britain’s new chancellor on the clock, and the deadline is now. The Derby-based engineering group has told Andy Burnham’s government it needs...