首相安迪·伯纳姆和财政大臣约翰·希利将在政府税收计划引发担忧之际，作为预算前接触的一部分，接待英国商界领袖。
Prime Minister Andy Burnham and Chancellor John Healey will host British business leaders as part of pre-Budget engagement amid nervousness about government tax plans.
作者：克洛伊·查普兰 两位首相和财政大臣将于周二上午分别与高层人士会面，此前政府多次收到警告，称英国企业成本高昂，商界对潜在税收增加感到担忧。
By Chloe Chaplain Both the prime minister and chancellor will hold separate meetings with senior figures Tuesday morning, in the midst of repeated warnings made to the government about high costs for businesses in the UK and concern within the business community over potential tax increases.
伯纳姆将在唐宁街举行招待会，邀请领军企业家和首席执行官参加，讨论政府和企业需要共同努力以促进经济增长的必要性，官员们表示。
Burnham will host a reception with leading entrepreneurs and CEOs in Downing Street, to discuss the need for government and business to work together in order to promote economic growth, officials said.
希利计划与零售、酒店和休闲行业的领袖举行早餐会，参与者包括合作社超市集团和J·塞恩斯伯里超市连锁公司的代表。他还将接待来自全英的小企业和高街贸易代表。
Healey has a breakfast meeting scheduled with leaders from the retail, hospitality and leisure sectors including from the Co-op supermarket group and supermarket chain J Sainsbury Plc. He will also host representatives of small business and high street trade across the UK.
希利将利用此次会议，在其10月28日预算之前，就企业成本和招聘的高昂问题表达担忧。他将寻求意见，了解政府如何能够为正在与成本作斗争的企业提供喘息空间。
The chancellor will use the meeting to address concerns over the high costs of business and recruitment ahead of his Oct/ 28 Budget. He will seek input as to how government could offer breathing space for businesses struggling with costs.
英国时尚大亨保罗·史密斯成为周一警告政府企业成本高昂的最新商界领袖，他告诉天空新闻台，当希利的前任、财政大臣拉切尔·里夫斯提高雇主国家保险缴费时，他的公司被迫“ overnight ”筹集140万英镑（180万美元）。
British fashion tycoon Paul Smith became the latest business leader to warn the government about high costs on Monday, telling Sky News his firm had been forced to find £1.4 million ($1.8 million) “overnight” when Healey’s predecessor, Rachel Reeves, had increased employers’ National Insurance Contributions.
“我们希望国家保险，拜托，能够恢复到以前的水平，如果他们负担得起的话；还有免税购物。我的意思是，这两件非常简单的事情就能帮助全国经济，”时装设计师和奢侈品牌创始人史密斯对天空新闻台说道。希利表示，他希望解决企业面临的成本问题。
“What we want is National insurance, please, to go back where it was if they can afford that and also tax free shopping. I mean, those are two very simple things that would help the economy across the country,” Smith — fashion designer and luxury brand founder — told Sky. Healey has said he wants to address the costs facing firms.
上个月，在执政党工党的年度大会上，领先企业的高管们告诉彭博社，他们担心政府在预算之前表现出的参与度不足。
At the governing Labour Party’s annual conference last month, executives from leading companies told Bloomberg they were concerned at what they perceived to be a lack of engagement from the government ahead of the Budget.
他们表示，伯纳姆和希利提出的愿景表明，政府的重点将放在对小型高街企业的支持以及对工业部门的国家支持投资上，而大型企业和金融服务业则可能面临更高的税负。
They said the vision set out by Burnham and Healey suggested the government’s focus would be on support for smaller high-street firms and state-backed investment in industrial sectors, with bigger businesses and the financial services industry facing a higher tax burden.
希利上周与银行业负责人会面，并表示他尚未就对该行业征收更多税款作出决定。
Healey met with banking bosses last week and said he hadn’t yet come to a decision about whether to impose more taxes on the sector.