Tax break for businesses made permanent

A policy allowing firms to deduct machinery and equipment costs from their (...)

Period pants should not be subject to 20% VAT, say firms

Marks & Spencer and period pants brand WUKA are asking the government to remove (...)

Bumper BP profits of £4bn in three months spark criticism

Strong profits lead to renewed calls for energy firms to pay more tax, with (...)

Corporation tax: Jeremy Hunt confirms rise to 25% from April

The chancellor confirms corporation tax will go up but opposition is expected (...)

EU agrees windfall tax on energy firms

The EU has agreed to implement levies on energy firms which are benefiting (...)

Liz Truss defends energy firms saying profit is not evil

The Tory leader hopeful says profit is not "dirty" and windfall taxes were (...)

Cost of living: Labour to call vote on windfall tax for oil and gas companies

It is shameful not to raise extra money from oil and gas firms amid the rising (...)

Do more to spur investment, firms urge government

The trade body says firms need help as they face the highest tax burden in (...)

Plan B: How will the changes affect the economy?

Nightclubs, restaurants and shops could be hit by new Covid curbs, but many (...)

You may be able to book a flying taxi within three years

Firms are racing to bring flying taxis and the mini-airports they need into (...)

Gas price crisis: Food firms face huge price rise for carbon dioxide

The US supplier of CO2, which will receive millions in UK taxpayer support (...)

Budget 2021: £5bn fund to help High Street recover from Covid

Grants for 700,000 firms come as Rishi Sunak warns public finances face a (...)

Treasury eyes VAT charges for gig economy firms

The "shared economy" has grown rapidly thanks to technology platforms like (...)

Coronavirus: Chancellor Rishi Sunak unveils £30bn plan to save jobs

Chancellor Rishi Sunak cuts VAT on hospitality and offers firms a bonus to (...)

Coronavirus: Energy firms permitted to chase unpaid bills again

Bailiffs are still banned from knocking on doors to collect unpaid parking (...)

Trump administration to study ways to protect for U.S. investors from Chinese firms

The Trump administration will study ways to safeguard Americans from the risks (...)

UPDATE 2-Airbnb secures $1 bln investment from Silver Lake, Sixth Street

Airbnb said on Monday private equity firms Silver Lake and Sixth Street Partners (...)

UPDATE 1-Portugal to help firms through coronavirus, tough measures in place

Portugal moved to help businesses weather the coronavirus epidemic on Friday (...)

Immigration: No visas for low-skilled workers, government says

Ministers urge firms to stop relying on "cheap labour", but critics warn of (...)

UPDATE 2-South African Airways cancels flights in fight for survival

* State firms big risk for South African economy (Updates with detail from (...)

Flybe confirms it will get a tax and duty holiday

But the struggling airline says the debt with tax authorities is far lower (...)

Flying cars could lure investors away from ground-based services -survey

Electric air taxis — known colloquially, if somewhat misleadingly, as "flying (...)

UPDATE 1-U.S. companies say consumer still strong even as broader outlook dims

Walmart became the latest company to point to a strong U.S. consumer, adding (...)

UPDATE 4-In blow to U.S., EU pledges quick move on tax for polluting firms

* EU tax commissioner-designate pushes for carbon border levy

Argentina imposes currency controls to support economy

Firms will have to seek central bank permission to buy foreign currency and (...)

U.S. tells Britain to drop tax proposal on U.S. tech firms for trade deal -The Telegraph

The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has told Britain it will (...)

Loan charge - retrospective tax bills for freelancers

IT contractors, oil and gas workers, locum doctors, social workers and nurses (...)

UK economy rebounds in first quarter

Brexit stockpiling by firms helps to lift UK growth in the first three months (...)

Corbyn-proof? British water, power firms take nationalisation precautions

British water and power firms are trying to soothe nerves over nationalisation (...)

How has business been affected by Brexit so far?

With two months to go until the UK is due to leave the EU, how are firms and (...)

Is Margrethe Vestager championing consumers or her political career?

EVEN her enemies admire the bloody-mindedness of Margrethe Vestager, the European (...)

A legal vulnerability at the heart of China’s big internet firms

COMPANIES’ legal structures are usually mind-numbing fare. But occasionally (...)

A firm that shares a name with its founder earns higher profits

A GOOD business name can be pricey. An entrepreneur looking for the perfect (...)

Research points to a new explanation of “Dutch disease”

IN 1959 geologists discovered 2.8trn cubic metres of natural gas—the largest (...)

The hubris of ten-year budgets

IN February of 2001, Alan Greenspan, then still the chairman of the Federal (...)

The world’s largest online-travel company

NOT since the dotcom boom at the turn of the century have technology shares (...)

America’s uncompetitive markets harm its economy

“THE best of all monopoly profits is a quiet life,” wrote Sir John Hicks, (...)

Tech stocks have regained their dotcom-era highs

CAST your mind back to when Bill Clinton was president, Tony Blair and Vladimir (...)

The United States of debt

POLITICS in America may be an arena of mutual incomprehension with few settled (...)

UPDATE 3-Police seize servers of Ukrainian software firm after cyber attack

* Kiev says to extend tax deadline to help affected firms (Adds police, company (...)

UPDATE 2-Police seize servers of Ukrainian software firm after cyber attack

* Kiev says to extend tax deadline to help affected firms (Adds details, background) (...)

How to Trump-proof your company

TO OUR management team: When I left the White House yesterday, after another (...)

Britain to crack down on militant, criminal financing

LONDON, June 25 (Reuters) - Britain will bring in new rules on Monday to crack (...)

The perils of nationalisation

WHEN Jeremy Corbyn unveiled his Labour manifesto ahead of the recent British (...)

Tanzania’s firebrand leader takes on its largest gold miner

“IF THEY accept that they stole from us and seek forgiveness in front of (...)

Corporate Europe is giddy with optimism

IT IS remarkable what a difference a single election can make. “The way (...)

A Turkish maker of white goods is looking outwards

FORGIVE a maker of washing machines a fondness for spin. Hakan Bulgurlu, who (...)

An inglorious return to Austin for Uber and Lyft

UBER and Lyft will make their triumphant return to Austin on Monday. Whether (...)

How becoming a Hong Kong pensioner can save you tax

Not dodging but shufflingTHE global war on tax evasion rumbles on. What began (...)

To forecast share returns, count buy-backs as well as dividends

WHAT is the point of buying shares? Ultimately investors must hope that the (...)

Insurers get a new global accounting regime

LISTED firms in over 120 countries, including all large economies bar America, (...)

Africa’s informal economy is receding faster than Latin America’s

COMMON to all men, according to Adam Smith, is “the propensity to truck, (...)

Protecting American steel from imports makes no sense

AS AN example of all that is wrong with Donald Trump’s view of trade, the (...)

Steven Mnuchin gets started on tax reform but there is more to do

OF THE things that investors and bosses have come to like about Donald Trump, (...)

Ireland’s food industries would be worst hit by a hard Brexit

IN 1962 Tony O’Reilly, head of the Irish Dairy Board, had an idea that would (...)

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