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Emergency Budget: Corporation tax will drop to 24% by 2014

Corporation tax will drop to "the lowest this country has ever known.”

22 Jun 2010

Emergency Budget: Reduction in housing benefit

Maximum limits on housing benefit to be introduced

22 Jun 2010

Emergency Budget: Public sector pensions to be reviewed

£10bn yearly cost to plug the gap is to be reviewed

22 Jun 2010

Emergency Budget: I will find an extra £17bn in public sector savings - Osborne

"Not all departments will receive the same settlement"

22 Jun 2010

Emergency Budget: Spending cuts to account for 77% of budget deficit reduction

Tax rises to account for 23% of budget deficit reduction

22 Jun 2010

Emergency Budget: Osborne wants debt to be 1.1% of GDP by 2015

Spending cuts and tax rises will keep budget under control

22 Jun 2010

Emergency Budget: 2% UK inflation target by end 2010

Chancellor George Osborne reveals inflation target

22 Jun 2010

Emergency Budget: Structural deficit to balance by 2015

Osborne tackles structural deficit

22 Jun 2010

Insolvency Service IT upgrade delayed

Plans to shut down Insolvency Service's technology for ten days is pushed back by more than two weeks

21 Jun 2010

What are the prospects for Margaret Hodge at the PAC?

Hodge PACs a punch : New chairman of the public accounts committee Margaret Hodge now has the facts and figures at her fingertips

17 Jun 2010

12:30pm Budget decision imminent

Decision will be taken tomorrow which may see George Osborne's 22 June emergency Budget speech brought forward by three hours to 12:30pm

15 Jun 2010

HMRC chief awarded Dame in Queen's Honours

HM Revenue & Customs chief Lesley Strathie named a Dame in Queen's Birthday Hounours List

14 Jun 2010

Banking reform report: "fundamental questions" about purpose of audit

Future of Banking commissions wants auditors to take a more critical eye over the way banks account for assets and liabilities

14 Jun 2010

David Miliband supports an increase in Scottish tax powers

Scotland should have greater powers over income tax said David Miliband, favourite to succeed Gordon Brown

11 Jun 2010

Hodge to chair Public Accounts Committee

Margaret Hodge to serve as PAC chairman. Andrew Tyrie to head Treasury committee

10 Jun 2010

Advisers fear being caught in Liechtenstein tax net

Information gathered by HMRC in its drive for disclosure from Liechtenstein account holders could be used by other UK government agencies

10 Jun 2010

Accountant Greening shines in Treasury questions

Economic secretary Justine Greening leads the line in first Commons questions to the Treasury

09 Jun 2010

Breaking news: HMRC to veto Portsmouth CVA

HMRC source says it doesn't regard 20p in the pound as "an acceptable return to the taxpayer"

07 Jun 2010

Avoid VAT rise on food and children's clothes, urges retail body

British Retail Consortium wanrs against VAT rise

07 Jun 2010

Report claims E&Y failed to seek independent advice on crucial Equitable court case

Failure to disclose court case led to “defective decision making”

04 Jun 2010

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Penny Avis' book Nevermind the Botox Rachel

Video: From corporate finance to author

Rachael Singh interviews self-published author and former Deloitte partner Penny Avis on her novel "Nevermind the Botox Rachel"

Managers must spot signs of staff stress

Learn to identify the symptoms of stress in your team, urges CABA

The Practitioner: Staff sit-down shocker

The Practitioner has plenty to think about after a senior staff member reveals the pair haven't 'chatted' for quite a while...

Time for consulting to re-balance?

Despite robust performance in 2011, the consulting industry must reduce its reliance on financial services clients, says Alan Leaman

businessman steps forward

Tax: Don't go back in the future

Forget retrospection and instead put the GAAR together properly to create certainty for business, says Gary Richards

CIMA and ICAEW accounts: all in the presentation

Fully transparent, or just one for the accountants? asks Kevin Reed

TS recalls Pet's star Healy's close links to HMRC

Tim Healy's recent run-in with the taxman isn't his only dealing with HMRC, TS recalls...

Colin: Cost-cutting a step too far

Finance function takes its toll at BBC offices

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