As businesses continue to focus on recovery from the pandemic and speculation on the contents of next week’s Autumn Budget continues, Grant Thornton UK LLP’s latest Business Outlook Tracker* found that one in three (31%) mid-market businesses believe the increased tax burden is a top threat to the growth of their business. The bi-monthly Tracker, which surveyed 605 mid-market businesses in October 2021, showed that the increased tax burden was considered as big a threat to the market as digital security and cyber risk. Businesses have already been hit this year with the upcoming rise in corporation tax to 25%, announced in the March Budget, and the recent announcement of a rise in National Insurance from April 2022 to help fund the health and social care sectors. Read More