The Budget 2013: Help for those at the top and bottom, but not the middle man
James Layfield is currently heading up the rapidly expanding Central Working
With dust beginning to settle on George Osborne’s fourth Budget speech, entrepreneur James Layfield looks at whether, yet again, the middle ground SME has been forgotten about.
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Research
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