PP Show: FTRC director slams auto-enrolment of SMEs as 'political disaster'

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Finance and Technology Research Centre director Ian McKenna has said the auto-enrolment of small to medium sized enterprises will be a "political disaster".

He compared it to the congestion charge and described the situation of staging dates for a lot of SMEs being at the other side of the next election as "convenient". "They have managed to kick it...

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