Just 13% of Firms Expect Taxes to Fall Under Labour's New Leader

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Who is Andy Burnham? It’s the £2.91-trillion question that the bond markets will be considering today. Labour has committed itself to a Doctor Who strategy, hoping that a regeneration of its leadership with a telegenic fresh face will get viewers to switch back to the program. Now that the lead actor has been cast, the...

Just 13% of firms expect taxes to fall under Labour's new leader

More than half of Britain’s mid-sized businesses expect their tax bills to rise as a result of the change in the Labour leadership, and just 13 per cent believe the new regime will bring them down. The findings come from the latest Mid-Market Tracker published by accountancy and business advisory firm BDO, a bi-monthly survey of 500 UK mid-sized businesses with revenues of between £10m and £500m. Some 54 per cent of respondents said they expect …