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News and analysis on excesses in bureaucracy that are hindering UK SMEs.The Red Tape small business archive.
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Thousands of small companies are to be spared from red tape after a government shake-up on business regulations.
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Cutting red tape should be the most important business priority for the government, according to small and medium-sized enterprise owners.
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Small business minister Mark Prisk has announced that small businesses and start-ups will be exempt from new UK regulation for three years, starting in May.
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Red tape and volatile exchange rates are the main challenges facing small businesses when exporting, a report from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) finds.
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The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has launched a review of the Local Better Regulation Office.
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The government's deficit reduction measures will stall recovery resulting in a post-recession peak of nearly 3 million unemployed, an industry body has warned.
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Red tape has cost European businesses a cumulative 1 trillion (£0.87 trillion) over the past 11 years, according to the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC).
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Removing red tape will encourage SMEs to grow and budding entrepreneurs to start their own businesses, claim industry experts.
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Leading small business group the Federation of Small Businesses has expressed its support for the Legislative & Regulatory Reform Bill, designed to cut red tape for small firms.
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Relief from the perennial burden of red tape could be in sight after the Cabinet Office announced a project to measure and then reduce the paperwork and administration faced by small businesses.
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Complying with government red tape can cost small businesses more than £3,600 a year.
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