Budget fuel duty damaging SMEs
Fuel duty will be hiked by 2% from September, and 1% above indexation every year for the next four years.
According to David Shepard, Federation of Small Businesses, Devon Policy Chairman: “The additional costs of the fuel escalator increase in September, and annually thereafter, will hit the rural economy far harder than any other sector, and this is worst affected part of the economy.”
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