We kick the week off with a piece on the tax burden from The Guardian - it seems the manufacturing sector believes employers are being hit by inefficiencies and red tape in the current system. The Telegraph lists the story in its breaking news section, to which I can't actually link directly but it's there if you want to dig around.
It's a familiar story and one that bears repeating even if you've seen it on the business pages every day for years. Smaller business in particular is having to spend a lot of time and resource simply on being a business rather than on producing goods or whatever their core task happens to be. If the new Tory leader and in a while the new man at Labour - let's call him 'Gordon' for the moment - should have one mission in mind, let it be to reduce the admin burden on the smaller trader and allow them to spend time instead generating cash, paying taxes and so enabling the public services of which both parties claim to be so much in favour.
