Clobber the taxman
With-profits bonds from life insurance companies are an attractive option for investors who want to earn higher income than they would from a building society deposit, wh...
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How gene blueprint will affect insurers
As scientists this week announced that we now have the draft blueprint for human life, insurance buyers and companies are asking how this breakthrough, perhaps the greate...
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Time for tax cheats to confess
Crackdown: Gordon Brown is targeting tax and benefits fraud
If you have any dark secrets from the taxman you may now be drinking at the last chance saloon, as this we...
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More aid for childhood jab victims
Children left disabled by routine vaccinations for diseases such as whooping cough and measles are to get increased payments from the government. After a 20-year campa...
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Rich? Don't want to pay tax? Here's how
For anyone with real money the first tax-planning decision is whether to avoid or evade payment.
Tax evasion is a criminal matter. It involves hiding money where the au...
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Citibank makes e-business operations one unit
Citigroup, the US financial conglomerate, is to unite all its corporate and investment banking e-commerce operations into a new e-business unit.
While an announcement a...
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What price 25 years?
Andy Evans was given ?100,000 as an interim compensation payment when he was first released from prison. After 25 years inside, it was an unimaginable sum. "I started ...
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Phone selloff brings government ?12bn surplus
Britain's public finances showed an impressive ?12bn surplus last month as the first receipts from the auction of mobile phone licences poured into the government's coff...
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Taxation: hints and wrinkles
Being over 65 can have its financial advantages. The system offers several tax breaks that are not available to younger taxpayers - but you have to know the rules.
Ever...
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Focus
Companies which change name usually claim that a corporate makeover is needed because the original title no longer reflects its activities.
There is a little of that be...
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