Apprenticeship Levy nothing more than an “additional tax”

Posted on 25 Aug 2017 by Jonny Williamson

It’s now more than four months since the government’s Apprenticeship Levy has been in place, but the experience for some SME manufacturers has been less than smooth so far.

Like so many government initiatives, both past and present, the finer details of the Apprenticeship Levy are still unclear. From April 2017, the Apprenticeship Levy obliged UK businesses with wage bills in excess of £3m to pay 0.5% of that bill towards funding the creation of three-million new apprenticeships. On paper,…

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