AHEAD of the Budget tomorrow (Wednesday) businesses across the North East have voiced what they want the Chancellor to announce, including a balance between tax rises and for a fairer furlough scheme to continue. John Elliott, chairman of County Durham-based Ebac Limited, said: “The Chancellor needs to think radically, but simply. Make tax easier to collect and much more difficult to avoid; replace corporation tax with a turnover tax and replace income tax with sales tax. This could add billions to the Chancellor’s coffers, particularly from those giant entities that avoid paying their UK taxes. “Rather than making growth the Holy Grail, focus on supply rather than increasing demand to balance the books. It should be more profitable to invest in real businesses than buying shares on the stock market and we should encourage internal investment rather than inward investment. We will never have a strong economy without a solid, British-owned manufacturing base.”
Not the kind of rabbit we expected to find in the woods : Litter pickers make X-rated discovery
The find has set tongues wagging with many quick to share a joke at the unexpected object left in the undergrowth
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When a Teesside group of litter pickers set out on their weekly tidy up trek, they hope their efforts might help attract wildlife to their local area.
To set up International Bullion Exchange at GIFT CityMulti Commodity Exchange of India
(MCX) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with National Stock Exchange of India
(NSE), India INX International Exchange (IFSC) (India INX), National Securities
Depository (NSDL) and Central Depository Services (India) (CDSL) for setting
up Market Infrastructure Institutions comprising of International Bullion Exchange, Clearing
Corporation and Depository at Gujarat International Financial Trade (GIFT) City in lines with the
Government of India objective to make India a price setter in bullion through GIFT International
Finance Service Centre (IFSC) and in accordance with the International Financial Services Centres
Authority (Bullion Exchange) Regulations, 2020 and other applicable laws.
Covid test centres for people without symptoms to be kept open on road out of lockdown
Stockton Council said that staff may also help out in the drive to give out second covid jabs
09:35, 1 MAR 2021
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A trio of testing centres for people without covid symptoms will be in operation until June at the earliest as rates continue to fall across Teesside.
10 angry exchanges as sparks fly over vision for Middlesbrough
“I’m nasty to people who I think are trying to be nasty,” mayor tells meeting
14:25, 27 FEB 2021
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A throwback to some of the feisty meetings of old has seen accusations fly over Gresham, plots and a vision for Middlesbrough.
Councillors approved a 2.75% tax rise in the town by 42 votes to nil on Wednesday evening.