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Economic plans 'to include VAT cut'
- 4 Hours ago
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Every household in the country has been promised immediate support to get through the economic downturn amid growing expectations of a cut in Value Added Tax (VAT). A reduction of VAT from 17.5% to 15%
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Breaking news: Bank freezes small firm overdrafts
- 3 Hours ago
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A major bank will freeze overdraft charges for small businesses in a bid to ease growing financial pressure on the sector, it has been announced. NatWest and the Royal Bank of Scotland said up to a million
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Brown defends finance plan
- 3 Hours ago
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London - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown defended his plan on Sunday to inject billions of pounds of borrowed money into the economy to try to stave off a deep recession, saying failure to act could
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Gordon Brown to cut Vat as winter recession...
- 4 Hours ago
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Cuts in Vat are to form a key plank of Gordon Browns emergency economic rescue package to be unveiled tomorrow. The temporary reduction in sales tax, currently at 17.5%, will be one of a range of measures
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RBS overdraft fees freeze for small firms
- 76 Minutes ago
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ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND, the countrys biggest lender to small businesses, will today try to head off government charges that banks are starving small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) of finance by launching
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Big VAT cuts to boost spending in 2009
- 100 Minutes ago
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Comments 2 | Comment on this article Chancellor Alistair Darling at The Treasury Photo: David Rose Alistair Darling, the Chancellor, is poised to announce a temporary cut in VAT, the first time such a
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Citigroup's axe to fall on London
- 4 Hours ago
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UK workers expect to hear this week who will be axed as the crisis that engulfs the Wall Street giant escalates. Citigroup bankers have told The Observer they believe at least 1,250 jobs will be slashed
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