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Wed 11 Nov 2002The right to moan but not to complain too muchBritish businesses claim to feel extremely beleaguered. The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has described corporate tax rises - of £47 billion sterling (€73.88 billion) - between 1997 and 2005 as both "relentless and damaging".The Chancellor of the Exchequer's apparent determination to meddle with regulatory and tax systems has produced a harmful rise in red tape; people who run small and medium-sized businesses complain about an ever-rising burden of form-filling and other bureaucratic headaches. Manufacturers have to cope with a strong exchange rate and difficult export markets. Service sector businesses are worried that a tight labour market is about to be made much worse by an explosion in public sector pay.