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Reading Time | < 1 min 31 Jan 2014

Filing Extension for 2012/13 Tax Returns via Free HMRC Software

Reading Time • < 1 min  If you are currently panicking that you have left it too late to register online or come to do...
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Reading Time | 2 mins 31 Jan 2014

New tax rules, same old issue

Reading Time • 2 minsFollowing the anti-avoidance measures taken forward by the Autumn Statement, draft legislation was published in December regarding changes to partnership...
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Reading Time | < 1 min 30 Jan 2014

Credit card bills most avoided mail in Scotland

Reading Time • < 1 minCredit card bills are the most unopened non-junk mail in Scotland, a survey from the Debt Advisory Centre Scotland has suggested. Nearly half (42.9 per cent) of those questioned about their post opening habits said they were most likely to ...
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Reading Time | < 1 min 30 Jan 2014

Help to Buy creates 46 new homeowners per day

Reading Time • < 1 minThe equity loan element of the Government's Help to Buy scheme has created 46 new homeowners every day since its launch in April 2013, according to figures from the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG). The DCLG's figures...
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Reading Time | < 1 min 24 Jan 2014

Pension fees cap delayed

Reading Time • < 1 minThe proposed cap on annual pension management charges will be delayed for at least a year, Pensions Minister Steve Webb has announced. A cap of up to one per cent was originally scheduled for April this year but it is now thought that the c...
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Reading Time | 3 mins 23 Jan 2014

Update on proposed changes to partnership taxation

Reading Time • 3 minsFurther to the announcements in the Autumn Statement, draft legislation has been released alongside a guidance note by HMRC, detailing...
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Reading Time | < 1 min 23 Jan 2014

Northern Ireland Jobs Fund exceeds targets

Reading Time • < 1 minThe Northern Ireland Jobs Fund has beaten its Government-set target to create 4,000 jobs by March 2014. Enterprise, Trade and Investment Minister Arlene Foster announced that as of the end of December 2013, the fund has helped create more ...
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Reading Time | < 1 min 23 Jan 2014

Unemployment falls to 7.1 per cent

Reading Time • < 1 minThe UK unemployment rate has dropped to 7.1 per cent, according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The ONS data shows the number of people out of work fell by 167,000 to 2.32 million in the three months to...
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Reading Time | < 1 min 22 Jan 2014

A quarter of young adults live with parents

Reading Time • < 1 minMore than a quarter of adults aged between 20 and 34 lived with their parents in 2013, according to analysis by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The research found that 3.3 million young adults, or 26 per cent of the age group, li...
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