BOSS State of Office Supplies survey opens

The BOSS State of Office Supplies (SoS) survey has been designed in collaboration with companies in the industry. It will collect information on industry trends, top business concerns, energy prices, issues with international trade, moving goods between GB and NI, financing and credit conditions and pay review benchmarks.

This year’s survey finishes with a new section aimed at gathering information on how active your business is in improving its sustainability credentials – so please ensure you follow the survey through to completion.

The survey should take no longer than 15 minutes to complete and will help BOSS represent your business and the sector. Be assured that responses are entirely confidential and results will only be used to represent your industry, lobby on your behalf, and help BOSS to support you – in particular, in the ongoing discussions with the Department for Business and Trade. Use this link to take part in the survey: https://online1.snapsurveys.com/interview/ a711a959-9d84-4cff-911f-9267b29ab9f3

The Stationers’ Company Warrants announces 2023 recipients

Over the years the Stationers Company has recognised many companies’ products and services with Stationers’ Warrants. Recipients have the honour of using the Company Warrant on their product or for promoting their service. As marketplaces have changed, the Stationers’ Warrants has reflected these changes and include not only traditional products, such as pens and notebooks, but also products which embrace sustainability and services that are unique and truly relevant to our industry.

Chris Geer, chairman of the Warrants Committee, commented, “Despite the challenging last 12 months, due to the war in Ukraine and the cost-of-living crisis that affects all sectors, it has been a pleasure to receive innovative applications from a broad crosssection of our content and communications industries.”

The committee was delighted to award new Stationers’ Warrants to:

● Hahnemühle UK for their Natural Line Paper Range.

● The Evening Standard for their ‘Standard Dispossessed Campaign’.

The rate of corporation tax, paid on company profits, will rise this month, the chancellor has confirmed. It will go up from 19% to 25% for companies with over £250,000 in profits, Jeremy Hunt told the Commons.

He also announced a new scheme to allow every pound invested by businesses in IT equipment, plant or machinery to be deducted in full from taxable profits. The tax hike, first announced in 2021 when Rishi Sunak was chancellor, has been a source of much political debate. Ex-PM Liz Truss attempted to scrap the policy in her mini-budget last September and some Conservative MPs still oppose it.

Delivering his spring budget, Mr Hunt said the UK would still have the lowest headline rate of corporation tax in the G7, the group of the world’s seven richest nations, even after the rise in April. He said only 10% of businesses would pay the full rate, and anticipated that his new ’full capital expensing’ policy was equivalent to a corporation tax cut worth an average of £9bn a year.