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Michelle Ovens CBE shares her thoughts on Budget 2021

3 March 20213 March 2021 News, This Is How I Run My Business Cherry Martin 0 Comments

We spoke to Michelle Ovens CBE to find out her thoughts on Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Budget 2021 to see if it was what she had hoped for.

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SME owners join forces to call for ‘damaging’ 50p tax rate to be scrapped

29 February 2012 Money & Tax for the Self-Employed, News Paul Jones 0 Comments

The 50p higher rate of income tax is “damaging the economy” and delaying the recovery from recession, more than 500 entrepreneurs and business owners warn today.

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