- SMEs and entrepreneurs receive according to The Telegraph next year a reduction of the corporate tax from 16.5 to 15 percent. The government also wants to announce plans during Budget Day to tackle constructions that companies use to pay less corporate tax. To compensate, the government is investing billions in a scheme in which companies receive a tax deduction if they invest in projects that promote employment.
- Laboratories in the Netherlands no longer have the capacity to process more test samples, which means that GGDs cannot expand the number of test locations. That the Ministry of Health reports. There may be more testing capacity in the labs next week.
- The government wants to spend 20 billion euros over a period of five years on projects that will strengthen the economy, writes RTL NewsThe so-called Wopke-Wiebes fund must finance projects in the areas of education, the labor market, innovation, infrastructure and sustainability of the economy.
- More than 40 percent of SMEs have insufficient insight into the options available for business financing, it appears from a study among six hundred entrepreneurs by lender October. Furthermore, 36 percent of entrepreneurs say they do not know exactly what a financier needs to determine whether a company qualifies for a loan.
- If one in eight employees works from home one and a half days a week, this would save 3 billion in travel kilometers and 353,600 tons of CO2 emissions. That CE Delft has calculated commissioned by Natuur & Milieu. Working from home also ensures increased labor productivity and avoids costs due to environmental pollution.
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