{"id":8352,"date":"2011-01-05T12:18:47","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T10:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=8352"},"modified":"2011-01-05T12:18:49","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T10:18:49","slug":"its-small-business-that-is-feeling-the-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/01\/05\/its-small-business-that-is-feeling-the-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s small business that is feeling the pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/19cc7eb8-182f-11e0-88c9-00144feab49a.html#ixzz1A9eT36vr\"> FT reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Leaders of the UK&rsquo;s biggest businesses are at their most optimistic about trading prospects for five years, while smaller companies are freezing investment plans and raising prices in the face of <a class=\"bodystrong\" title=\"FT - Pace of growth expected to slow in 2011\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/b59a2de2-1756-11e0-badd-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1A4oQAH2Y\">uncertainty about domestic demand<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I very strongly suspect that is true.<\/p>\n<p>And it is very significant because it is small business, not big business, that generates most new jobs in the UK economy.<\/p>\n<p>In that case this is very bad news indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FT reports: Leaders of the UK&rsquo;s biggest businesses are at their most optimistic about trading prospects for five years, while smaller companies are freezing<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/01\/05\/its-small-business-that-is-feeling-the-pain\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}