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The tourist tax row is about £1bn. For a small B&B, it is about who does the paperwork

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The government is pointing £1bn of pension money at start-ups. Almost none of it will reach a business like yours

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A storage giant is cutting staff and automating after a business rates hit. What smaller businesses should take from it

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The two-line reference, and what everyone lost when it became standard

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