UK Finance News

No-one could claim the UK coalition Government have had an easy time of it since forming their partnership, but one thing is certain-things are about to get a whole lot tougher, for all of us.
The Coalition has generally, so far been welcomed by the majority of public and businesses alike, but tomorrow Chancellor George Osborne [...]

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The Director General of the Institute off Economic Affairs (IEA), Mark Littlewood, has blasted politicians at home in the UK and across Europe for jumping on the bandwagon to promote support for an international levy on bank assets.
The IEA are particularly at odds with the Conservative party over the issue, David Cameron’s party have not [...]

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The Automobile Association (AA) has reported that petrol prices in the UK are once again on the rise, the price per litre at petrol stations across the country has already risen by 4p in the last month, to mid March.
But the AA warn that prices will increase further and we may see a record high [...]

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A report conducted by the Financial Times suggests that the Chancellor Alistair Darling could be well off the mark when predicting that the UK’s one off tax on bank bonuses would bring £550million in to the Treasury during this financial year.
Instead the Financial Times report says that the 50% tax levied on bonuses over £25,000 [...]

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France are to follow the lead outlined by the UK government in Alistair Darling’s recent pre-budget speech and introduce a special one off tax on banker’s bonuses for 2010.
French Finance minister Christine Legarde has said that a bill will be put before the French parliament in January that will commit tax bonus payments of over [...]

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