Archive for March, 2008

News - Should my business be VAT registered?

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Value Added Tax should be charged by VAT-registered businesses and self-employed people.

It is levied on the supply of their goods and services (output tax) and paid to HM Revenue & Customs.

However, because businesses also pay VAT on goods and services supplied to them (input tax), the amount of VAT actually paid is the excess […]

News - Warning on firm’s selling tactics

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

People in the Isle of Man are being warned about bullying tactics used by a company selling satellite system insurance over the telephone.

A number of est finance financial hill in insurance international irwin management mcgraw real series have contacted the Officer of Fair Trading (OFT) about intimidating tactics used by the firm.

Customers say they are […]

News - Wales: A child’s right to play?

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

For four and a half years Event extremal finance insurance modeling County Council have encouraged community councils and local groups to run their own play areas, and have not been replacing playground equipment when it falls into disrepair.

But parents in some parts of Pembrokeshire say that not all communities are capable of running their own […]

News - Consumer chief takes aim at finance firms

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Peter Vicary-Smith is the new head of Which, formerly known as the Consumers’ Association.

He replaces Dame Sheila McKechnie, who died in January.

For nearly fifty years, Which has been one of the UK’s most powerful consumer voices.

As National Consumer Week draws to a close and the Financial Services Authority (FSA) prepares to start regulating mortgages from […]

News - Fewer firms face finance censure

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

The number of firms being found guilty of wrongdoing by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) has fallen in 2005, law firm Simmons & Simmons has said.

It calculated that the number of firms censured so far this year is 19, compared with 81 for the whole of 2004.

Late last year the FSA was insurance finance and […]

News - Ask the expert: Are my savings safe?

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

BBC News Ask the Expert column gives readers a chance to have their financial questions answered.

Brian Capon from the British Bankers’ Association helps Your Money reader Elisabetta Tenenti.

Mrs Tenenti would like to know how safe are her savings and what kind of protection do savers have in the event of a UK regulated bank […]

News - Ask the expert: Are my savings safe?

Friday, March 21st, 2008

BBC News Ask the Expert column gives readers a chance to have their financial questions answered.

Brian Capon from the British Bankers’ Estate finance fundamentals hill in insurance investment irwin management mcgraw real series valuation
helps Your Money reader Elisabetta Tenenti.

Mrs Tenenti would like to know how safe are her savings and what kind of […]

News - Man finally confesses to murder

Friday, March 21st, 2008

A Wiltshire man who has always denied killing his wife has finally confessed to her murder.

At the time of his trial in June 2003 Randle Williams was called “evil” and “personal finance insurance
” - he even shed tears at his wife, Natalie’s funeral.

Three years into a life sentence he has admitted that he […]

News - Norwich Union jobs move to India

Friday, March 21st, 2008

UK insurance giant Norwich Union has told staff that it will cut 2,350 jobs in the UK and export the work to India.

Parent firm Aviva said operating costs in India were typically 30-40% lower than in the UK and that the move would also help it provide 24-hour services.

The Amicus trade union criticised the […]

News - An uninsured driver cost me £4,000

Friday, March 21st, 2008

A crackdown on uninsured driving has been announced. BBC News Online talked to one motorist who had to battle for compensation when her car collided with an uninsured driver’s vehicle.

Saloni Mongia, 30, from London, is counting the cost of her car’s finance and insurance school
in an accident with an uninsured driver.

In late 2002, Ms […]