Zöe Franklin MP Urges Chancellor to Review “Jobs Tax” Threatening High Streets
“For our High Streets to thrive, our businesses need support. The Chancellor must review the increase in National Insurance and overhaul business rates.”
Zöe Franklin said: “Businesses across Guildford constituency have told me about their worries surrounding the increase in employers’ national insurance, due from 6th April.
“I am urging the Chancellor to rethink this. For our high streets to thrive, we need our local businesses to thrive. There are already far too many empty shops in what should be the vibrant community centres of Guildford and our villages.
“The Chancellor must review this, as well as overhaul the business rates system, to trigger the growth that our high streets desperately need.
“The businesses that weathered 14 years of economic vandalism under the Conservative government need support to thrive again.
“We risk losing some of our oldest and much-loved businesses which are part of what makes our high streets such a valuable asset, and such a valued part of local communities.”