EEF: Budget must address creeping business costs

Posted on 29 Feb 2016 by Callum Bentley

Britain’s manufacturers are warning of the potentially damaging consequences of a raft of increasing business costs.

Business leaders are urging the Chancellor to signal to business in the forthcoming Budget that they will not be the ‘thin end of an ever-thickening wedge’. Publishing its Budget submission, EEF pointed to a raft of recent policy announcements which have come at a time when industry is facing significant global headwinds. [breakout size =…

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