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I find HMG Budgets in recent years deliver very little in terms of innovation and
future proofing and are now events that merely increase the net cost to the
Nation and are designed to avoid any conflict that the media can relish.
I wonder sometimes, why we bother, is it just a tradition and do the ends really
justify the means. One day there will be a stark realisation that certain business
taxes just kill off any entrepreneurial spirit, and the Government will suddenly
realise the error of their ways far too late to do anything about it. Take for
example the most unfair business tax of them all, business rates. Often an
organisation with modest profitability is required to pay a property tax despite
not owning their premises and at a level of taxation that has no relevance to
their ability to trade and create a profit. At the other end of the scale are the
international traders that are able to create multi-billion pound turnovers in the
U.K. and then not pay a penny in tax in the U.K. whatsoever. There is no level
playing field for business any longer. Could the Chancellor also stop claiming
that the Government has raised the National Living Wage as if the Government
has had to pay anything towards this aspect. Let's keep criticising and taxing the
business owner and in the next breath recommend them to deliver the Industrial
Strategy. Be careful that we do not kill off the goose that lays the golden egg.
We would like to thank all our readers for your support during 2017,
we wish you a merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year –
if the Chancellor allows it.
Adrian Hawkins
Managing Director, Welding World Ltd
e: managing.director@welding-world.com
Adrian is also Chairman of Weldability Sif,
Deputy Chair at the Main Board of
the Hertfordshire LEP and Chair of
the LEP Board for Skills
and Employment
in Hertfordshire.
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