Times: N M Rothschild to face bonus tax
The Government is expected to extend the scope of its controversial banker bonus tax to ensure that the City house…
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FT: UK leaks £40bn tax every year
Loopholes, evasion and other flaws in the tax system are costing the country about £40bn in revenue a year, according…
BySTel: Barclays deferring 60% of bonuses
The president of Barclays, Bob Diamond, has revealed that the bank will defer up to 60pc of its bonuses this…
ByFT: Treasury clarifies bonus tax victims
The Treasury has backed away from controversial plans to apply the 50 per cent supertax on bank bonuses to those…
ByTapping the Line
Scotland Yard finds itself in the curious position of collecting evidence for foreign jurisdictions that cannot be presented in the…
ByWSJ: Place your bets against the PIIGS nations
The sudden spotlight on troubled government borrowers is presenting a long-awaited payday for investors who placed early bets against countries…
BySwissInfo: HSBC confirms client data stolen
The private banking arm of British bank HSBC in Geneva has filed a criminal complaint against a former employee who…
ByUpdated: Darling’s Nasty Surprise
The Pre-Budget Report’s hidden measures will hurt Britain, not help it, as the Chancellor takes aim at the bonuses of…
ByUpdated: Darling's Nasty Surprise
The Pre-Budget Report’s hidden measures will hurt Britain, not help it, as the Chancellor takes aim at the bonuses of…
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Live coverage of the Pre-Budget Report as it happens, plus expert analysis in the aftermath. Live coverage of the Pre-Budget…
ByFT: Darling to impose one-off bonus levy
The chancellor will levy a one-off tax on the billions of pounds set aside by banks to pay bonuses in…
ByGuardian: Swiss wooing bankers with DVD?
The Swiss canton of Uri is more used to holidaymakers flocking to see its stunning Alpine vistas and the statue,…
ByTime Flies When You’re Hedging Funds
Only yesterday they were the pariahs of the business world, but hedgies are bouncing back quickly and are eager to…
ByYule Fools
How can you go away for one week and come back to find your country taken over by the ghost…
ByThe Red Baroness
EU foreign minister Baroness Ashton, who has never had any elected office, is a typical ambitious left-wing apparatchik. The foreign…
ByFT: Darling to tax bonuses?
Alistair Darling, chancellor, is preparing a crackdown on “extraordinarily high” bankers’ bonuses when he makes his pre-Budget report on Wednesday,…
ByReuters: UBS advisers now allowed to go abroad
ZURICH, Dec 6 (Reuters) – Switzerland’s UBS(UBS.N: 行情)(UBSN.VX: 行情) has lifted a ban on Swiss-based client advisors travelling abroad, provided…
ByFT: Osborne says banks should not offset losses against tax
Mr Osborne has called for banks to be prevented from offsetting past losses against tax on distributed profits. “When the…
ByAll the Fun of the Fayre
Entertainers extraordinaire Victoria Cator and Lucinda Bruce reveal that Christmas can actually be stress-free as long as you plan carefully…
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Good polls are the ones you can control. Bad polls are the ones that involve money and phoning 1378 men…
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