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| 03/11/2000 |
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UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown is betting his political
future that deep cuts in road hauliers' vehicle excise duties and tax breaks
for rural drivers will buy off another crippling fuel-levy protest.
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| 31/10/2000 |
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Under changes to the 1998 late payment of commercial debt act,
small to medium-sized enterprises will be entitled to claim interest on late
payments from other SMEs. How can SME solidarity be expected when delayed
payments are an accepted form of business practice?
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| 26/10/2000 |
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With the rise of e-commerce, tax specialists and business analysts
are turning their attention to the issue of e-taxation. For now, there are no
e-commerce specific taxes so an e-business faces similar tax issues to those
weighing on traditional enterprises.
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| 24/10/2000 |
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Technology comes to the rescue of small firms faced with an
unexpected growth opportunity, but without the cash to exploit it.
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| 23/10/2000 |
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Jacques Freidel is not a man to mince his words. As far as the
president of France's largest small business lobby is concerned, the French
government's move to introduce a statutory 35-hour working week are quite
simply insane.
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| 18/10/2000 |
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David Irwin, chief executive of the government's Small Business
Service, tells Business Europe that he aims to move small-to-medium sized firms
from the back to the front pages during the next two
years.
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| 17/10/2000 |
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If there is one man in Europe whose job it is to nurture the EU's 18
million small and medium-sized enterprises, it is Enterprise Commissioner Erkki
Liikanen. He is the member of the Union's 20-strong executive agency
responsible for the 230-million-euro SME budget and putting flesh on the
European Charter for Small Businesses agreed by government heads at their
summit in Feira, Portugal, in June. But what can he do in practical
terms?
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| 16/10/2000 |
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Christopher Haskins, the Northern Foods chairman appointed by Tony Blair to weed out superfluous business regulations, tells Business Europe why tensions over red tape are running so high, and explains what needs to be done about it.
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| 12/10/2000 |
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The national minimum wage, introduced in April 1999 amid dire warnings of rampant inflation and mass unemployment, has in fact caused relatively few ripples during its first 18 months, according to the Department of Trade and Industry.
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| 10/10/2000 |
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Giant global logistics companies are carving up multinational
business but they can't do it all. A clutch of smaller transport firms have
discovered that they can step into this niche.
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| 09/10/2000 |
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Chancellor Gordon Brown's decision in his 2000 budget to set aside 50
million pounds for promoting "business clusters" reflects the increasingly
important economic role played by dynamic local hubs of interdependent yet
competing firms.
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| 06/10/2000 |
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The country's economy may be booming but a report out yesterday shows
that setting up a new small business in France is still just as risky as it
ever was.
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| 04/10/2000 |
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Europeans' heads are getting bigger, according to new research by
small and medium sized businesses.
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| 03/10/2000 |
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David Irwin, chief executive officer of the UK government's Small
Business Service, set out his vision for Britain's small and medium-sized companies in a major speech this week, stressing the need for risk-taking. This is an edited version of what he had to say:
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| 02/10/2000 |
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It's not only backpackers who are benefiting from the proliferation of low-cost airlines across Europe. Bruce Barnard reports on the best deals currently available, and advises on how to sidestep some of the pitfalls of bargain-bucket travel.
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| 28/09/2000 |
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As the internet access rate among small UK firms climbs higher and
higher, Business Europe explores why most SMEs are still waiting for the
much-heralded e-commerce jackpot.
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| 26/09/2000 |
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A Scottish shopkeeper is showing how commitment can enable small
enterprises to take on the retail giants, reports Nancy
Nicolson of The Scotsman
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| 22/09/2000 |
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Truckers in the European Union may have won some concessions during
the recent spate of fuel tax protests, but, as Bruce Barnard reports, the price
of diesel may soon turn out to be the least of their worries.
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| 21/09/2000 |
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If French Finance Minster Laurent Fabius thought the adoption of his
'business friendly' budget by cabinet colleagues yesterday would put an end to
country-wide gripes about high taxes he was sadly mistaken.
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| 20/09/2000 |
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The shortage of properly qualified workers is hitting small companies
across Britain - and in a growing number of sectors as Catherine
Wheatley of Sunday Business reports
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| 18/09/2000 |
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Petrol and diesel sales may have been disrupted across Europe but the protests and blockades were lifted just in time to prevent interruption to retail markets in electricity and gas.
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| 15/09/2000 |
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The protestors have gone home, and the tankers are rolling once again, leaving businesses to count the cost of the crisis. The 6-day protest over fuel taxes has landed small businesses with a bill of up to 1 billion pounds and counting, according to analysts.
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| 14/09/2000 |
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As the pickets head home from two key oil refineries in Scotland and
north-west England, BusinessEurope looks at what the government could do in its
November draft budget to buy off a second round.
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| 02/04/2000 |
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The recent US decision not to implement the Kyoto Protocol has cast a
shadow of doubt over global commitments to go green. To mark the entry into
force today of the UK climate change levy, a controversial tax on energy use,
Business Europe investigates how small firms can do their bit for the
environment.
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| 19/01/2000 |
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Just weeks ago when the opposition Conservative Party announced its
latest tax plans, nobody listened. Since last week's petrol crisis and a slump
in the Labour government's popularity, business attention has shifted back to
Tory leader William Hague.
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