2022年11月17日

快速增长的策划市场Print Ankorstore对财政大臣的秋季声明做出了回应，它认为在试图“减轻对独立零售商的打击”方面做得还不够。该公司英国总经理塔伦·吉多马尔说:“英国的小企业和零售商在过去一年中面临的众多变化和挑战，包括新冠肺炎、通货膨胀、能源价格上涨以及现在的财政拖累，使他们不堪重负。”令人震惊的是，97%的英国独立零售商认为政府在2022年持续的“永久危机”中没有提供足够的支持，在今天的声明之后，这一数字可能会进一步上升。“亨特说他会‘减轻对企业的打击’是不够的，全国上下的独立零售商需要更多，才能在2022年持续的‘永久危机’中生存下来。“如果政府未能延长能源救济计划，正如今天的预算完全错过的那样，大多数独立零售商(89%)认为他们将因此受到影响，几乎一半的独立零售商(42%)表示这将导致他们关闭或考虑关闭。“关闭这么多伟大的独立零售商将对依赖这些商店的社区产生巨大而深远的影响，对它们提供的社会基础设施以及英国经济复苏产生影响，预计这将是我们有史以来持续时间最长的衰退。“我们呼吁政府重新审视今天的预算，为小企业提供更多的资金，以创造更大的稳定性，并促进英国商业街的增长。什么都不做不是一种选择。”小型企业联合会(FSB)全国主席马丁·麦克塔格(Martin McTague)聚焦于秋季声明中宣布的税收措施，他说:“今天的预算在隐性创造方面很高，而在财富创造方面很低，这给英国550万小企业及其员工和客户带来了更多压力。”他说:“遏制通货膨胀固然重要，但为繁荣、增长和支持企业创造条件的措施也同样重要。 Today is a missed opportunity to avoid further economic slowdown. “Small businesses, which account for more than 16 million jobs in the UK, were already facing an acute cost of doing business crisis through soaring costs, falling revenues, shrinking availability of affordable finance, and a rise in invoices being paid late. “On top of all that, they now face even higher taxes, cuts to innovation, and a recipe for a longer and deeper recession. “The slashing of dividend taxation allowances will be a bitter blow to hard-working owners of small limited companies trying to pay the bills, earn a living and grow their business. This is a group which was excluded from direct support during the darkest days of Covid, then more recently pushed out of the cut in National Insurance. “The changes set out by the Chancellor will leave a company director earning £40,000 a year more than £500 worse off than an employee earning £40,000 and paying income tax and national insurance. “Freezing the threshold for employer National Insurance at a time of such high inflation is a stealthy hike in the jobs tax, just as recessionary pressures threaten an increase in unemployment. Alongside the understandable rise in the Living Wage, this Budget will ramp up the costs of employment without offsetting that with measures to reduce other business costs. “Stealthily freezing the VAT threshold at a time of sky-high inflation will both drag more struggling small firms into scope for the tax, while disincentivising others from growing. FSB’s research shows one-in-four (24%) of small firms and the self-employed are held back by the VAT threshold. The few saving graces here are the retention of the Employment Allowance at its current level, which was hard fought for by FSB, and the continuation of the lower National Insurance rate for the self-employed and employees. “It is welcome that the energy support package for small firms will remain in place until April, helping them through a very tough winter ahead. However, going forward, continued support should not be viewed through the narrow lens of specific sectors, but rather based upon the size of a business. “The chancellor may consider that today’s Statement has steadied the economic ship after recent turbulence. But it is now time to raise the anchor, re-start the engines, and set a course towards economic recovery, promoting enterprise and innovation, and future prosperity. Whether that direction is set in the coming months is a decision which will be make or break for many small businesses.”