Business News
Taxman: We must 'improve accuracy' - This is Money
Telegraph.co.uk
Taxman: We must 'improve accuracy'
This is Money
HM Revenue & Customs admitted yesterday it needs to 'improve accuracy' amid calls for the tax system to be simplified after nearly 6m people paid the wrong amount of tax. Get brochures on Isa funds, share dealing, Sipps and inheritance tax planning ...
Six million hit by tax mistakesBBC News
Six million people affected by tax computer errorsIndependent
Taxman 'not happy' as 1.4 million face extra paymentsHerald Scotland
The Guardian -Telegraph.co.uk -Reuters UK
all 351 news articles »
Categories: Business News
Tube strikes loom for London commuters - BBC News
Reuters UK
Tube strikes loom for London commuters
BBC News
The first in a series of Tube strikes begins later, with services expected to be disrupted until Tuesday night. Up to 200 Jubilee and Northern Line maintenance staff will walk out for 24 hours from 1900 BST in a pay row. Thousands of their colleagues ...
Boris Johnson pledges extra buses and bike escorts as London Tube strike loomsThe Guardian
London Faces Transport Turmoil as Subway Workers Plan Strike Over Job CutsBloomberg
Mayor outlines plan to limit tube strike impactFinancial Times
Fresh Business Thinking -This is London -Barking and Dagenham Post
all 309 news articles »
Categories: Business News
Export agency 'generated £500m' - BBC News
TopNews United Kingdom (blog)
Export agency 'generated £500m'
BBC News
The Scottish government's exports agency has said it generated more than £500m to Scotland's economy last year. Scottish Development International (SDI) said it had also managed to secure 5500 jobs despite the global recession. ...
£500m in foreign investment securedThe Press Association
'There are things we can do for business that are different from other banks'Herald Scotland
Smart Exporter set to boost tradeScotsman
TopNews United Kingdom (blog)
all 27 news articles »
Categories: Business News
The prime minister demonstrates how he'll 'stand up to big business' - The Guardian
The Guardian
The prime minister demonstrates how he'll 'stand up to big business'
The Guardian
Just four months into the coalition and a prime minister who pledged to "stand up to big business" is instead sitting down with it. A cabal of corporate types has been signed up to provide wise counsel to David Cameron. We have former BP chief Lord ...
David Cameron to revive Brown's business 'star chamber'Telegraph.co.uk
David Cameron recruits business big hitters to advise on economic strategyThe Guardian
David Cameron has appointed business leaders to advice on economic strategyTopNews United Kingdom (blog)
Sky News (blog)
all 6 news articles »
Categories: Business News
Scary stories from Gulliver on HSBC break-up - The Guardian
The Guardian
Scary stories from Gulliver on HSBC break-up
The Guardian
Stuart Gulliver, HSBC's head of investment banking and hot favourite to be its next chief executive, says he would like to be crystal clear. "Our preference is to remain headquartered in the UK," he told a conference last week. Terrific. Panic over. ...
HSBC in clearest warning yet over relocationFinancial Times
The business on...Stuart Gulliver, HSBC Chairman, Europe / Middle EastIndependent
HSBC threatens to quit London HQBBC News
Telegraph.co.uk -Reuters -ShareCast
all 95 news articles »
Categories: Business News
Tourism near the Gaza border
At the Zikim Kibbutz, near Ashkelon in southern Israel, tourists come in to see what life is like living just a short distance from the Gaza border.
Categories: Business News
Metro Bank works magic on customers - Daily Mail
Daily Mail
Metro Bank works magic on customers
Daily Mail
Metro Bank hit its one-year target for customer accounts just five weeks after opening its first branch and could now accelerate its expansion programme, according to chairman Anthony Thomson. The bank last week opened ...
Metro Bank claims early success in fight for customersIndependent
UPDATE 1-Metro Bank ahead of targets on new accountsReuters
Metro hails success as customers 'flood in'This is Money
Banking Times -Real Business -HRmagazine.co.uk
all 26 news articles »
Categories: Business News
Wrong tax bill for millions in UK
Almost six million people in the UK have paid the wrong amount of income tax in the past year, with some facing a bill of up to £1,400 - although others can expect a rebate.
Categories: Business News
Watchdog to tackle online travel advertising - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.uk
Watchdog to tackle online travel advertising
Telegraph.co.uk
Travel companies that publicise their products online will come under the regulation of the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) from next year. The British advertising watchdog is extending its powers to cover all online ...
UK to launch 'comprehensive' policing of online advertisingFinancial Times
Advertising Standards Authority gets online powerBBC News
Company marketing messages to be regulated by ASAThe Guardian
Computeractive -is4profit -ShareCast
all 165 news articles »
Categories: Business News
Cairo literary business booming
Egypt's literary scene is thriving, with a new generation of writers and poets taking advantage of an increasing number of small publishers and social networking sites to get their work noticed.
Categories: Business News
Banks leave customers in 'poverty'
High Street banks have been accused of leaving some customers in "dire poverty" after taking money out of their accounts without permission.
Categories: Business News
'Alarming' rise in risk of double-dip - Herald Scotland
Herald Scotland
'Alarming' rise in risk of double-dip
Herald Scotland
The dangers of a double-dip recession are growing “alarmingly”, a leading economist warned yesterday as a key survey showed a sharp slowdown in growth of the UK's dominant services sector in August and big staff lay-offs. The findings of the survey, ...
Economy suffers slowdown as double dip loomsIndependent
Service sector in deep freeze as growth tumblesScotsman
Service sector: what the economists sayThe Guardian
Financial Times -Brookson -TaxAssist Accountants
all 13 news articles »
Categories: Business News
Car insurance premiums at record highs - Telegraph.co.uk
stv.tv
Car insurance premiums at record highs
Telegraph.co.uk
Price comparison websites blamed for encouraging car insurance fraud which has pushed up insurance premiums. By Kara Gammell The AA said that due to an increase in fraudulent claims, motor insurance premiums have risen by a record 11.5pc in the last ...
Record rise in the cost of motoring insuranceDaily Mail
Car insurance premiums jump 31 percent - AAReuters UK
Crash fraud driving up cost of car insuranceScotsman
TopNews United States -Moneysupermarket.com
all 33 news articles »
Categories: Business News
Fate of two Gartmore trusts uncertain - Financial Times
Telegraph.co.uk
Fate of two Gartmore trusts uncertain
Financial Times
The fate of two of Gartmore's investment trusts is uncertain following the departure of high-profile fund manager Gervais Williams. The boards of Gartmore Growth Opportunities and Gartmore Irish Growth, both managed by ...
Gartmore hit by another fund manager's resignationTelegraph.co.uk
Gervais Williams quits GartmoreMoney Marketing
Weekly investment trust round-up: 30 August - 3 September 2010What Investment
Hargreaves Lansdown -Investment Week -Fund Strategy
all 15 news articles »
Categories: Business News
Doors open for public viewing at RBS - Scotsman
Reuters UK
Doors open for public viewing at RBS
Scotsman
The Royal Bank of Scotland is to welcome the public into its usually tightly-guarded premises for the first time as part of a festival giving the public "behind the scenes" tours. RBS, which has a 44-hectare campus at Gogarburn on the ...
RBS move to boost Scottish jobsBBC News
RBS 'horror story' as UK job cuts top 20000Telegraph.co.uk
Fury as RBS ships more jobs abroadDaily Mail
Independent -Mirror.co.uk -Herald Scotland
all 293 news articles »
Categories: Business News
Watchdog probe latest sign some of the markets energy is mis-spent - Scotsman
MyFinances.co.uk
Watchdog probe latest sign some of the markets energy is mis-spent
Scotsman
The experience of working in the complaints department of a regional energy supplier when the market was opened up to competition in the Nineties left me with a healthy disregard for the sales tactics employed by the UK's big gas and ...
Home energy watchdog investigates missellingFinancial Times
Consumers urged to take care around 'misleading' energy salesMoneyExpert
Ofgem investigates doorstep gas and electricity sales agentsThe Guardian
Mirror.co.uk -The Press Association -ShareCast
all 132 news articles »
Categories: Business News
Ten ways to survive the pensions crisis - The Guardian
The Guardian
Ten ways to survive the pensions crisis
The Guardian
Millions of people's dreams of a comfortable retirement took another battering this week with the news that annuity rates have plummeted to an all-time low. New figures show the amount of money you get when you swap your pension pot for an annuity ...
Annuity payments plummet to record lowsYorkshire Post
Low annuity rates means 'shopping around important for pensions'Brookson
Five ways to take control of your retirementHargreaves Lansdown
Liberty Bishop -Thomson's Online Benefits -Money Marketing
all 7 news articles »
Categories: Business News
Market Report: Aggreko powers ahead as bid talk resurfaces - Independent
Reuters UK
Market Report: Aggreko powers ahead as bid talk resurfaces
Independent
The global temporary power supplier first became the subject of electrifying takeover talk a couple of months ago but yesterday the voltage was cranked up after a link to a potential bid from the Swiss engineering group ABB. ...
Aggreko takeover talk drives FootsieScotsman
FTSE hit three-month high on bid talk and US jobs reliefThe Guardian
U.S. jobs data lifts FTSE to 4-month closing highReuters
The Press Association -London South East -shareprices.com
all 54 news articles »
Categories: Business News
Economy suffers slowdown as double dip looms - Independent
Herald Scotland
Economy suffers slowdown as double dip looms
Independent
By Sean O'Grady, Economics Editor Economists fear the dangers of a double-dip recession are "growing alarmingly" after the release of the latest "grim" survey of business confidence in the service sector, and evidence of collapsing order books in the ...
'Alarming' rise in risk of double-dipHerald Scotland
Service sector in deep freeze as growth tumblesScotsman
Service sector: what the economists sayThe Guardian
Yorkshire Post -ShareCast -MarketWatch
all 16 news articles »
Categories: Business News
Economy suffers slowdown as double dip looms - Independent
RTE.ie
Economy suffers slowdown as double dip looms
Independent
By Sean O'Grady, Economics Editor Economists fear the dangers of a double-dip recession are "growing alarmingly" after the release of the latest "grim" survey of business confidence in the service sector, and evidence of collapsing order books in the ...
Service sector in deep freeze as growth tumblesScotsman
Services slowdown part of a wider downward spiralThe Guardian
Services sector slowdown fuels fearThe Press Association
ShareCast -Reuters -Telegraph.co.uk
all 140 news articles »
Categories: Business News
