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Companies who fail to pay suppliers within 30 days are to be hit by punitive European Union-wide interest rates, under the terms of a draft directive.
Companies who fail to pay suppliers within 30 days are to be hit by punitive European Union-wide interest rates, under the terms of a draft directive.

The late payment directive plans to give creditors the right to add compensation interest of 6 per cent above European Central Bank base rates. That would mean an extra 8.5 per cent could be added to late invoices at...

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