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RSM Tenon suspends tax products after avoidance clampdown May 17 2012

Accountancy firm RSM Tenon has suspended a line of specialist tax products after a government clampdown on tax avoidance.Read

Russell Luckock: Airline duty will hold back deal-making Apr 06 2012

Prime Minister David Cameron says that we are all in this financial mess together. Then Chancellor George Osborne, through his Budget, gives help and encouragement to business, and yet, does nothing about reversing previous proposals to increase Airline Passenger Duty (APD) by twice the rate of inflation.Read

Treasury claims public sector pay is too high in West Midlands Apr 03 2012

Public sector workers in the West Midlands face pay cuts of around six per cent – with the money used to increase salaries for London workers, Treasury documents have revealed.Read

Richard McComb: Tories give the game away by tucking into supper Mar 30 2012

For me, it wasn’t the “granny tax” or the cut in the 50p tax rate that did it. It was the Tory old-guard’s use of the dreaded S-word. Read

John Clancy: Regional growth is the answer... not a race to the bottom Mar 30 2012

There has been much comment of late, not least by George Osborne in his Budget speech, about supposed stark differences in public (and, indeed, private) pay levels in the UK’s different regions and nations.Read

Greggs boss says 'pie tax' proves George Osborne is out of touch Mar 28 2012

The boss of Greggs has accused George Osborne of having "lost touch" after the Chancellor admitted he could not remember the last time he bought a pasty from the baker.Read

Jon Griffin: More and more businesses looking to China Mar 23 2012

This week’s economic focus may have been all about the Budget, with its all too predictable Punch and Judy politics and swaggering House of Commons braying from our political classes.Read

Fears for Birmingham Airport plans after Osborne hints at Boris Island backing Mar 23 2012

The Government has insisted Birmingham Airport could still play a leading role in meeting growing demand for air travel, after the Chancellor hinted he was backing Boris Johnson’s plans for a new airport in the Thames Estuary.Read