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- Six Budget predictions and eight Budget wishes
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:47:08 GMT
Accountant Tenon warns the HMRC is set to turn the screw on tax avoidance and will clamp down on schemes that turn income into capital ahead of the 50% tax rate in April
- Lehman report - more litigation on the way
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:21:09 GMT
Investors in Lehman now have very strong evidence that they were misled, following the publication of a US report. Those with deep pockets and insurance will be targeted.
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BBC Business News
- Sarkozy and Brown attack US deal
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:39:58 GMT
Nicolas Sarkozy and Gordon Brown criticise the US for "protectionism" over an aerospace deal after talks in London.
- Port exports
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:58 GMT
Portuguese exporters hit by strong euro
- Lloyds aids mortgage overpayments
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:53 GMT
UK mortgage lender Lloyds Banking Group is encouraging borrowers to pay off up to 20% of their mortgages early.
- Interns 'exploited by employers'
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:47 GMT
The TUC is claiming that young people are being exploited by employers through internships in which they do not get paid.
- Trichet backs new bail-out fund
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:50:18 GMT
The head of the European Central Bank gives his tentative support to a bail-out fund to bolster the eurozone's financial stability.
BBC News
- Meat processing workers 'abused'
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:08:26 GMT
An inquiry finds "widespread evidence" that some agency and migrant meat plant workers are abused and exploited.
- Moon decision dismays astronauts
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:38:02 GMT
Nasa Moon astronauts tell the BBC President Barack Obama's decision to cancel the US lunar programme is "catastrophic".
- Alaska wolves 'killed' US teacher
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:56:28 GMT
Wolves in Alaska are suspected of killing a woman jogger in what would be the first such attack in the US in half a century.
- Obese drinkers face 'double hit'
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:09:44 GMT
Obese women drinking little more than a glass of wine a day have double the risk of liver disease compared with those who are slimmer, experts warn.
- Youth charged over collapse death
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:59:13 GMT
An 18-year-old is charged with the harassment of a man who collapsed and died outside his Greater Manchester home.