MTD will cost SMEs £25bn, says FSB

SME organisation calls for MTD reforms.

R&D spending hits £47.5bn in 2019/20

Expenditure on R&D as percentage of GDP trails behind target.

Calls resurface to abolish business rates

Opposition would increase digital services tax to fund the move.

Business rates threaten 4 out of 5 retailers with closure

Calls for rates reform ahead of Government review.

Call to scrap proposed basis period reform

Reform could create as many problems as it solves.