Budget dents purchasing heads’ levy rebate hopes_2
17 August 2012
The budget left corporate procurement directors with little hope that the government will ease the burden of the impending climate change levy.
Business leaders had hoped that Gordon Brown, chancellor of the exchequer, would back up private assurances from the Treasury of a more flexible approach to companies satisfying requirements for rebates of up to 80 per cent of levy costs.
“In other words, it’s hard luck, and you have to do it,” said Roy Ayliffe, CIPS’s director of professional practice.
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