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Reading Time | < 1 min 14 Mar 2012

Stakeholder pensions could be approaching ‘obsolescence’

Reading Time • < 1 minSales of stakeholder pensions have fallen by 28 per cent in the last year, prompting speculation that the schemes are nearing the end of their usefulness.
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Reading Time | < 1 min 14 Mar 2012

Fall in tax receipts means VAT to rise as planned

Reading Time • < 1 minThere seems no prospect that the cut in VAT will be extended beyond the planned end of the year reversion to the old rate after it was revealed that tax revenues have fallen sharply.
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Reading Time | < 1 min 14 Mar 2012

Government broadens its trade credit insurance scheme

Reading Time • < 1 minThe government has amended its trade credit insurance top-up scheme so that more businesses can take advantage of it.
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Reading Time | < 1 min 14 Mar 2012

Companies to get reminder of corporation tax changes

Reading Time • < 1 minHM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is in the process of contacting some half a million companies, advising them of important changes to the way that corporation tax is to be filed in the future.
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Reading Time | 2 mins 14 Mar 2012

Basic skills lacking among school leavers, says business

Reading Time • 2 minsBusinesses are struggling to recruit young employees with sufficient basic skills, two business groups have claimed.
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Reading Time | 2 mins 14 Mar 2012

Recession pushes green policies down the business agenda

Reading Time • 2 minsSmaller businesses are devoting less attention to green policies as they cope with the economic downturn, a new survey has revealed.
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Reading Time | < 1 min 12 Mar 2012

VAT clarity for DIY housebuilders and converters

Reading Time • < 1 minThe first supply of new dwellings and non-residential buildings converted into dwellings is zero-rated. Such supplies are usually made by businesses but sometimes individuals undertake the work themselves in building their own homes.
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Reading Time | < 1 min 12 Mar 2012

Final salary pensions under threat

Reading Time • < 1 minA half of the final salary pension schemes still in operation in the private sector face closure by 2012.
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Reading Time | 1 min 12 Mar 2012

Inheritance tax interest charge part of ‘fairer’ system, says HMRC

Reading Time • 1 minHM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has argued that the interest due on late inheritance tax payments is part of a new system that is fairer for customers.
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