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Report calls for delay in FS...
A new report expresses concerns over the government’s proposed timetable for changes to theUK’s banking regulation system, which would see the Financial Services Authority (FSA) effectivel...
HMRC sends in the heavies fo...
HM Revenue & Customs will arrange for debt collectors to let loose on taxpayers to recover around £1.5bn of outstanding taxes and other money owed. The actual purge might find the collectors...
Scam alert over bogus offers...
Scammers are conning one in 20 people to part with cash by bombarding homes by phone, mail and online by duping them with fake offers. Consumer champions the Office of Fair trading has set up a ‘...
Osborne may scrap fuel duty...
Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne has said that he may cancel a previously planned increase in fuel tax this year. Gordon Brown’s Labour government had proposed a penny per litre increa...