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Why is HMRC staff morale so low?
03/13/2010 – 11:36 am PST | No Comment
Why is HMRC staff morale so low?

Last month the Treasury Select Committee published a rather impressive report, Administration and Expenditure in the Chancellor’s Departments 2008-09, in which it expressed serious concerns about low morale and a lack of efficiency …

EBRI Data Book Update (March 2010)
03/13/2010 – 6:58 am PST | No Comment
EBRI Data Book Update (March 2010)

Source: Employee Benefit Research Institute

The EBRI Databook on Employee Benefits includes data from dozens of sources to provide a comprehensive analysis of how the employee benefits system works, who and what its various functions affect, …

EBRI Issues 2010 Retirement Confidence Survey
03/13/2010 – 6:57 am PST | No Comment
EBRI Issues 2010 Retirement Confidence Survey

Source: Employee Benefit Research Institute
The 2010 Retirement Confidence Survey: Confidence Stabilizing, But Preparations Continue to Erode
March 2010 EBRI Issue Brief #340 Employee …

Is Mind Reading Inside Information?
03/08/2010 – 7:10 am PST | No Comment
Is Mind Reading Inside Information?

Source: SEC New Release
SEC Charges Nationally Known Psychic in Multi-Million Dollar Securities Fraud
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 2010-34
Washington, D.C., March 4, 2010 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a self-proclaimed psychic …

Prediction: CGT rate will increase to 50% this year
03/07/2010 – 1:52 pm PST | No Comment
Prediction: CGT rate will increase to 50% this year

I rarely make predictions but this one seems so obvious and I’m disappointed at the way the CGT ‘elephant in the room’ is being ignored by other commentators.
Until the Chancellor’s announcement in his 2007 Pre-Budget …

Tory tax plans discriminate against sole traders and partnerships
03/07/2010 – 1:52 pm PST | No Comment
Tory tax plans discriminate against sole traders and partnerships

Last Sunday George Osborne explained in a TV interview how the Tories plan to fund the reductions in corporation tax they have promised.
During the Andrew Marr show Mr Osborne initially stated that the reductions in …

Is permanent residence different to domicile?
03/07/2010 – 1:52 pm PST | No Comment
Is permanent residence different to domicile?

Back in March 2000, Lord Ashcroft undertook:
“to take up permanent residence in the UK again before the end of this calendar year.”
Many people assumed this meant that he would cease to retain his …

Non dom MPs – how difficult is it to change the law?
03/07/2010 – 1:51 pm PST | No Comment
Non dom MPs - how difficult is it to change the law?

Top Tory donor and party chairman Lord Ashcroft has revealed he is still a “non-dom” but says he will at last give up that status. Leaving aside all the political mud-slinging about the timing …

Comparing Non-group and Employer Sponsored Health Insurance
03/06/2010 – 7:45 am PST | No Comment
Comparing Non-group and Employer Sponsored Health Insurance

Comparison of Expenditures in Nongroup and Employer-Sponsored Insurance: 2004-2007 March 2010
This survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation finds that premiums on non-group health insurance are lower than on employer sponsored health …

Bankruptcy Filings Up in 2009
03/05/2010 – 2:15 pm PST | No Comment
Bankruptcy Filings Up in 2009

Source: U.S. Courts News Release
Bankruptcy Filings Up In Calendar Year 2009

Bankruptcy filings in the federal courts rose 31.9 percent in calendar year 2009, according to data released today by the Administrative Office of the U.S. …