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"The sector and government must work on this together with HMRC to ensure that providers do not fail as a result of this retrieval of pay, whether this is by a low/zero-interest loan to charities affected so they can pay over the next few years or some other mechanism. Although some charities have shown scant regard for their staff's welfare you cannot say they are not doing valuable caring work for their service users and like the article says, there is not necessarily an alternative available should the provider fail. HMRC's demands to pay by September seem unreasonable to me and I hope our new minister will act to support the charities to pay what they owe in the least damaging way possible to their frontline services."

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