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By: Tim Dier

Tim Dier is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Policy Studies and runs an SME

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  • Big government is smothering SMEs

    Opinion

    The government’s Employment Rights Act will drive yet another nail in the coffin of SMEs, says Tim Dier According to the Department of Business and Trade (DBT), Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) employ around 16.9m of us, a whopping 60 per cent of total private sector jobs. That includes everyone from the white-van man through [...]

    Small business owner frustrated with excessive red tape and paperwork in office setting

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