Health Care and Taxes
Updated: 2010-10-31 14:30:30
Wayne Rooney has suffered a bit of a bad press of late after renegotiating a five-year contract, said to be worth £200,000 a week. Now tax lawyers and accountants calculate he could save millions of pounds in tax if he sidesteps HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) using similar tactics to earlier footballers, including Dennis Bergkamp [...]
Leading accountants say Treasury proposals to fine higher rate taxpayers who fail to disclose that a spouse or civil partner is claiming Child Benefit will not work.
George Bull, a partner at Baker Tilly, explained: “There is no legal requirement in tax law for a husband to disclose his wife or civil partner’s income to HM [...]
Fed up with politicians and insurance companies making a mess of your retirement plans? Don’t get mad; get even with a Self-Invested Personal Pension (SIPP). I have invested in SIPPs and other personal pensions for about 15 years. Here are 10 tips to make the most of yours;
1: Why not do-it-yourself? SIPPs can be used [...]
To QE2 or not to QE2? On both sides of the Atlantic, policymakers are considering whether to order another dose of quantitative easing, a process that involves buying up public and private debt in order further to depress longer term interest rates. Most people know it as switching on the printing presses.
In the US, a [...]
So. The unions are finally going out on strike at the BBC?
Well, one of them is. The National Union of Journalists. It will stage two 48-hour strikes, on 5, 6, 15 and 16 November.
Bringing BBC News to a grinding halt?
Probably. And on bonfire night!
Probably?
The last strikes that were called (and then called off), to take [...]
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About 7m mostly low-paid people who do not currently have any pension savings will automatically have 4 per cent of their earnings docked after April, 2012, to fund a new State-sponsored retirement fund proposed today by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
An estimated 1m employers, mostly small businesses, will also be compelled to contribute [...]
Nationwide Building Society figures which show house prices fell by an average of 0.7 per cent this month, indicate the emergence of a two-tier housing market.
Ordinary mortals’ house prices are falling as mortgage lending slumps to its lowest level in a decade but the number of mansions fetching over a million pounds more than doubled [...]
For the second consecutive year, the Australian Centre for Financial Studies and human resources consulting firm Mercer have issued the Melbourne Mercer Global Pension Index, which compares retirement income systems of several different nations and rates them based on their “adequacy, sustainability, and integrity.” This year’s index ranked the Netherlands #1 out of 14 countries [...]
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Northwestern U finance prof Josha Rauh says Philadelphia's pension plan is the worst-funded of 77 big-city plans he and his fellow scholars reviewed.