A SEMINAR is being staged to help small firms through the minefield of self assessment.

The Central and East Lancashire branch of the Federation of Small Businesses is holding the event at the Novotel in Bamber Bridge on March 12 at 7.30pm.

"Many self-employed people have yet to get to grips with the extra burden which the new self assessment system of tax collection will place upon them," said FSB spokesman Cuthbert Culshaw.

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