I note from the Kleinwort Benson website that it said last week: Kleinwort Benson has agreed a deal to acquire Close Brothers Offshore Group (“COG”)
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My new report, 500,000 missing people: £16 billion of lost tax, highlights the fact that only one third of UK companies actually pay corporation tax
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I have noticed that UK discussion on the threat from nuclear power in the wake of the Japanese crisis concentrates on reactor design. I have
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The Lib Dems have voted almost unanimously to reject Torybplans to reform the NHS. But will coalition work? And will Lansley listen? If not Coalition
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The FT reports this morning: General Electric, the largest US industrial group, expects to pay a “substantially” higher tax charge this year, its chief executive
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The following is in the Guardian this morning, and since I wrote the report I quote at length: The Treasury could be missing out on
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David Mitchell in the Observer: Cameron also doesn’t realise, or is wilfully ignoring, how important our large and basically effective bureaucracy is to our place
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The Guardian reports tonight: Schools are preparing to make up to a fifth of their staff redundant in anticipation of huge budget cuts, it has
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Two regulatory agencies have responsibility for administering companies in the UK. One of course is Companies House. Companies House is an executive agency of the
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