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• Supertax on bonuses unfair on fund managers in banks

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  • HMRC guidelines exempts stockbrokers and asset managers • Supertax proposal unlikely to breach Human Rights Act The government was being warned last night that its supertax on bonuses could discriminate against fund managers and private equity experts working inside banks, as more guidance was issued about ...
  9 hours ago

• Move Over Darling II

  
  HMRC Is Shite — Authority: 120
  As predicted, HMRC have issued a revised version of "Darlings bankers bonus tax". Sneaking it out late last Friday, thus trying to minimise their humiliation, HMRC said: " The bank payroll tax announced at PBR 2009 applies to retail and investment banks (including building societies), and to banking groups. It does ...
  21 hours ago

• Britain to emerge from recession by the end of the year

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  • CBI analysis shows workers will face pay freezes next year • Bank of England interest rates to hit 2% by the end of 2010 Prime minster Gordon Brown was given a helping hand today ahead of the forthcoming general election as a leading business organisation said that Britains battered economy would finally ...
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• George Osborne: Britain risks Greek tragedy over deficit

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 966
  Shadow Chancellor says only a Conservative election victory can prevent full-blown fiscal crisis
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• Despite recession, Britons continue to shop until their income drops (MalaysiaNews.net)

  
  Debt Consolidation Blog — Authority: 145
  Alistair Darling estimates that output from the economy will collapse by 4.75% this year – the weakest performance since 1921 – but retail sales volumes are more than 3% higher than they were a ye...
  2 days ago

• Tory surge deflates Labour comeback

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  David Cameron lead revives after pre-budget report At all levels of the Labour party, optimism was in generous supply before the Christmas break. During their rounds of parties up and down Whitehall, cabinet ministers have raised their glasses to renewed hope, while being careful not to get carried away. Rather than ...
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• Despite recession, Britons continue to shop until their income drops

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Novembers dip in retail sales still leaves the figures higher than last year, but can this carry on into 2010? Napoleon once called Britain a nation of shopkeepers. Two centuries on, Boney would need to amend his insult. Britain is not so much a nation of shopkeepers as a nation of shoppers. Even the biggest fall in ...
  2 days ago

• Dont panic, Mr Darling! Just keep it steady as she goes

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Despite dire warnings about the state of Britains financial sector, there is no need for a major spring budget I like to think readers were warned over the years about some of the problems the British economy now faces; but, having often been considered too pessimistic in the past, I find myself not quite as ...
  2 days ago

• Darlings taxing problem

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 966
  Two weeks ago, at the Parliamentary Carol Service at St Margarets in Westminster, David Cameron did one of the readings. It was Luke, Chapter 2, Verses 1-7.
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• Why is the Pre-Budget Report bad news for SME’s?

  
  Serviced Office Space News — Authority: 128
  Last week (9th December) Alistair Darling announced the Pre-Budget Report and there was both good and bad news for small businesses in the UK.The Federation of Small Businesses have even accused the Chancellor of “giving with one hand and taking away with the other” following the PBR. The end to the export ...
  2 days ago

• Copenhagen climate conference’s giant globe: A sign of things to come?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  An enormous white globe dangled in Copenhagen’s Bella Centre, the location of the world’s largest ever leaders’ summit on climate change, could be an unintended yet chilling sign of things to come. An observant attendee made it clear by scribbling on the giant model of the earth that its designers forgot to ...
  3 days ago

• HMRC bank payroll tax guidance

  
  FT Alphaville — Authority: 678
  Right, here it is. The headline-grabbing news (as expected) is that insurance companies, asset managers and stockbrokers will be exempt from the banker bonus tax. That’s right, all non-banker financial types in the UK will escape with their bonuses intact this year. Here’s the embarassing u-turn clarification ...
  3 days ago

• Nailing Brown’s Big Lie : GDP Can Grow During Fiscal Squeezes

  
  Guy Fawkes' blog — Authority: 638
  Time and time again during PMQs Brown claims that the Tories would choke off a recovery by cutting government spending.  This he uses to justify the fiscal nihilism that has seen the PSBR hit a record high of £20.3 billion last month.  Suicidal unfunded spending. The Tories don’t make the case for cuts very ...
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• Business chiefs fund body to look at public sector pensions

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Pressure on final salary schemes grows with the launch of the Public Sector Pensions Commission Business leaders stepped up pressure on public-sector workers to accept cuts in retirement provision today following the launch of a commission to examine the cost of their final-salary pensions. The Public Sector ...
  4 days ago

• HMRC to explain who will be hit by Darlings bonus tax

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 966
  The authorities are poised to bow to pressure from the banks and publish a technical note that clarifies who exactly is caught by the super-tax on bonuses.
  4 days ago

• Bankers plot for voluntary contributions to oust tax on bonuses

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  • Bankers to suggest raising £2bn to avoid bonus tax • Alistair Darlings £550m target may be an underestimate Some of the most senior bankers in Britain are planning to convince the Treasury to drop the new 50% tax on bonuses by dangling the prospect of a combined contribution to the exchequer of £2bn. The ...
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• Banksters Award Themselves Bonuses — But Taxpayers Can Wait, Says Treasury

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 600
  The Treasury does not regard it as a “priority” to pay back the billions pumped into the banking sector, the Treasury has announced — while the bailed-out banksters continue to pay themselves vast bonuses courtesy of the public purse. According to reports, Sir Nicholas Macpherson, permanent secretary at the ...
  4 days ago

• Sarkozy’s tough message on climate – did it get through?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  After one and a half days of mostly uninspired and often irrelevant speeches by world leaders, French President Nicolas Sarkozy walked to the podium at UN climate talks in Copenhagen and produced a seven minute rallying cry - focused, energetic and packed with more punch than the rest put together. Jabbing his ...
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• Auxiliary verbs at 10pm and the scarcest resource – sleep

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  The issues are global and urgent, but the bureaucracy can sometimes be mind-bogglingly slow and petty. After a day of stalled talks, the 193 nations at UN-led climate talks finally met for a plenary to discuss one of the main drafts floating around the summit, just two days (and two hours) from the deadline for a ...
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• Darling urges banker restraint

  
  FT Alphaville — Authority: 678
  Alistair Darling on Wednesday urged bankers to demonstrate they “live on the same planet as the rest of us” by curbing bonuses. Defending his new 50% bonus supertax, the chancellor said his aim was to change banks’ behaviour rather than raise revenue. He spoke as France outlined its plan to follow Britain’s ...
  5 days ago

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