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Raising taxes for retailers is raising taxes for ‘working people’, says Bira

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Any move in the Budget to increase employers’ national insurance (NI) rates would hit small retailers hard, the British Independent Retailers Association (Bira) has warned. Bira’s chief executive, Andrew Goodacre, has asked for clarity on the government’s promise not to increase taxes for “working people”,…

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