British businesses want ‘jobs tax’ dropped

THE next government must move urgently to axe the planned National Insurance hike and outline plans to reduce Britain’s deficit or risk a recession relapse, a business group has warned.

In a 90 day challenge laid down to the incoming government, the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) set out a 12-step plan to promote business growth and economic recovery after the election.

It said Labour’s planned rise in employer National Insurance contributions in 2011 was a “tax on jobs” and must be cancelled in full, alongside other proposals, including freezing public sector pay, developing a radical plan to speed-up next generation broadband and introducing a moratorium on any new employment law before 2014.