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<description>Chancellor looks to help motorists and middle-income workers by scrapping a planned rise on fuel duty, as he extends austerity another year</description>
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<description>Chancellor says fall to 21 per cent, which comes into effect in 2014, will be an ‘advert for our country’ that will leave others scrambling to keep up</description>
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<title>Energy industry welcomes natural gas backing</title>
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<title>Make funding easier to access, say small businesses</title>
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<description>Some industry professionals are concerned that a suggested rethink on calculating liabilities would just sweep the problem under the carpet</description>
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<title>Small businesses broadly positive</title>
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<description>Entrepreneurs largely welcomed the Autumn Statement, particularly tax cuts, but some said that access to funds aimed at aiding SMEs remained difficult</description>
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<title>Debate over Isa eligibility for Aim shares</title>
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<title>Osborne out to woo the workers</title>
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<description>The chancellor will claim to be protecting Middle Britain’s ‘strivers’ as he squeezes the rich, the jobless, civil servants and ‘tax-dodging’ groups</description>
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<title>Hopes rise of cut in pension deficits</title>
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<description>Review of the accounting methods after complaints by business that low interest rates are artificially pushing final salary pension funds deeper into the red</description>
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<title>What to expect from Autumn Statement</title>
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<description>Borrowing and debt will overshoot Treasury targets. Public sector borrowing will rise and only get back on a downward slope next financial year</description>
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<title>Chancellor backs gas to fire up Britain</title>
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<description>Osborne will also consult on tax breaks for shale gas exploration and set up an Office for Unconventional Gas to simplify regulation of the sector</description>
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