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Government To Consider Tax Breaks For Faltering Local Newspapers
- The Guardian, Thursday, March 19, 2015 6:34 AM
The government is to launch a consultation on whether to offer tax breaks to the local newspaper industry -- but only for titles in England. “Local newspapers are a vital part of community life -- but they’ve had a tough time in recent years -- so today we announce a consultation on how we can provide them with tax support too,” said the chancellor, George Osborne, delivering the budget yesterday. Osborne said that, despite the shift to digital, local newspapers remain a “vital part of a healthy democracy.”
