The region’s business leaders are split on whether the Budget will benefit the local economy
In a breakfast seminar hosted by business advisors and accountants BDO LLP in Southampton, around 200 business leaders from across the region gathered to hear how the Emergency Budget could impact on their organisations, with just under half believing it would benefit local business, but overall 98 per cent thought it struck the right balance.During the seminar, the tax team at BDO LLP in Southampton posed a number of questions to the audience to gauge how they felt George Osborne’s announcements would affect the local economy. 73 per cent thought that changes made to Capital Gains Tax (CGT)