Brexit Uncertainty

Paula Veysey Smith • 23 October 2017

Brexit Uncertainty

This post is in response to this article.

The uncertainty surrounding Brexit is certainly being felt at all levels of the economy.  Many of our clients are small enterprises, commonly known as SME’s.  The message I am getting from them is that times are difficult at the moment and that will be an outcome of uncertainty.  The biggest lobbying groups are recognising the effect that a slow Brexit is having on our economy and impressing on the current Government the need to get on with it.  Once the deals are made business in the UK can move on and take hold of the opportunities that are there to be had.

In my own way I am doing what I can to promote the cause of the SME.  In October I had a meeting with the Rt Hon Greg Clark MP, Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, and put forward the case for small business.  I am awaiting a letter that his office wrote to The Chancellor of the Exchequer.  I was also fortunate enough to be invited to a Parliamentary breakfast last week and was able to pose the same questions to Chris Davies MP.

At M:Power Accounting we do more than look after your bookkeeping and tax affairs.  We are also actively campaigning on the behalf of SME’s regarding Brexit and beyond.  If you have any specific points you would like me to raise please do contact us by email.

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