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HMRC acknowledges that tax can be complicated when people first become self-employed. In an effort to help people calculate and budget for future tax bills it has launched a ready reckoner tool. The ...

Little for investors to get excited about this week as more positive economic data from the US and China was offset by weaker data emerging from the Eurozone. With both the bulls and the bears finding ...

Good morning. Facebook is going public in a fortnight's time. The social networking website allows people to post banal details of their daily lives and show off pictures of the latest additions to ...

The Governor of the Bank of England gave a lecture this week on what went wrong with Bank regulation in recent years. He then told us how the Bank would use its new regulatory powers going forward. ...

In 2006 I started making a number of predictions based on what I thought was the necessary and logical development of China’s growth model. Some of these predictions seemed fairly outlandish, ...

Despite the the recent heavy downpours we are in the middle of a drought. This unseasonally high rainfall has meant that some parts of the UK are suffering from heavy flooding. We have been fortunate ...

Home Retail (LON:HOME), the FTSE 250 company behind two of Britain’s best known retail chains, Argos and Homebase, saw profits fall by 60 percent to £102 million last year. For anyone in any doubt, ...

The Finance Act 2010 is to extend the definition of a charity to include all UK charity tax reliefs and exemptions administered by HMRC, where previously only those claiming gift aid had been included ...

Good morning. A bidding war between the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank pushed up the price of Edward Munch's The Scream to $120m. Auctioneer Sotheby's was reticent about the ...

When you look at a web page you decide whether or not to stick around in the blink of an eye. Various research studies put the time taken for us to decide whether or not we like a web page as between ...