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Mar 12 2008
Dave Moorcroft, director of economic development at The Mersey Partnership, said: “With the overall growth of the British economy expected to slow, it’s clear we’re working in an increasingly challenging economic environment....
Mar 12 2008
Professor Peter Spencer chief economic advisor to the Ernst & Young ITEM Club, said: “And when he got there the cupboard was bare. This time, like poor old Mother Hubbard, the Chancellor found that despite the years of plenty, the cupboard was completely bare. This year, all he could do was raid the drinks cabinet. He put a brave - you might say brazen - face on it, but that was the reality.“...
Mar 12 2008
Tony Bostock, director of building consultancy at commercial property agents CBRE in Liverpool, said: “The most interesting part of what was a relatively uneventful Budget for the commercial property sector was the announcement that all new non-domestic buildings should be carbon neutral by 2019....
Mar 12 2008
Andrew Lloyd, tax partner at the Liverpool office of Baker Tilly, said: “To add to the disappointment of business, the Chancellor made no announcements on the taxation of foreign profits consultation document published in June 2007....
Mar 12 2008
Jane Jackson, tax partner at accountants PKF in Liverpool, described the Chancellor’s handful of measures such as the temporary 20% increase in finance available from the Small Firms Loan Guarantee scheme; the £12.5m capital fund for businesses run by women; and the creation of a committee to provide advice on how SMEs can win more public sector contracts as ‘Lilliputian’....
Mar 12 2008
Brian Clark, tax partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers accountants in Liverpool, said: “Today’s Budget will be of some relief to businesses in the region because it contained few major surprises....
Mar 12 2008
The Liverpool-based women’s enterprise agency, Train 2000, today gave a cautious welcome to the Government’s plan to provide a capital fund of £12.5m to encourage more women entrepreneurs....
Mar 12 2008
EEF North West, the manufacturers’ organisation in the region, gave a mixed reaction to today’s Budget statement, welcoming the measures announced as part of the Enterprise White Paper but expressing disappointment at the lack of any announcement on the future direction of tax policy....
Mar 12 2008
Catherine Fairhurst, Liverpool tax partner at accountants Ernst & Young, said: "This is a fairly neutral Budget: the Chancellor is taking less that £2bn out of the economy in three years time. If the PBR was the Chancellor’s ‘magpie’ performance, this looks more like he has gone into hibernation, with very little to drive change....
Mar 12 2008
Chris Burgess, Liverpool branch chairman of the Federatin of Small Businesses, said: “The Treasury’s dithering since the Pre-Budget report and a series of damaging tax rises in the last year have totally undermined the Government’s position with small businesses....
