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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Julia Kollewe

UK manufacturers call for ‘major MOT’ of business tax and regulation system

A worker at the Tata steelworks in Port Talbot, Wales
An employee at a steelworks. Photograph: Kara Thomas/Athena Pictures

Britain’s manufacturers are urging the chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, to announce a “major MOT” of the UK’s “uncompetitive” business tax and regulatory system in his autumn statement next month.

Many aspects of the system are “not fit for purpose”, the business group Make UK said in a report published in the middle of the political party conference season, and called for major reform as part of an industrial strategy.

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