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[MSN Money UK editors' blog] Newspaper round-up: The Budget 2008: Further editorial writes of “Dozing with Darling, the Napoleon of dullards” and the paper also takes issue with Darling’s economic forecasts, saying they are overly optimistic, in spite of him admitting times were tough. Perhaps unusually for the Telegraph it highlights how Darling’s “poverty of new ideas abandons millions in the poverty trap”, stating that, according to the treasury’s own figures, the less well-off will be more adversely affected by the abolition of the 10 per cent rate of income tax than the wealthy.
[martinturner.org.uk] Very simply, Gordon Brown is in the wrong job: As far as I understand it - and I’m not someone with a huge axe to grind on this issue - the main argument for permitting new levels of experimentation in embryology is an economic one: if we don’t take the lead in the new technology, then other countries will, and Britain will be left behind. I’m not really sure I understand how this argument stacks up when we seem so keen to disinvest in other aspects of British technological leadership that have a much faster return for far less ethical issues.
[Business Studies] Two years of pain as CBI forecast lower economic growth for the UK: Pontins, the UK holiday park business which was born in post-war Britain and thrived during the 1950’s and 1960’s, has just been bought for £46m by new investors. Can they turn reverse the decline in the traditional holiday park market?
[Untitled] Darling prepares for first Budget: In Wednesday’s Budget, his first as chancellor, Mr Darling is expected to transform air passenger duty into a tax on flights in a bid to cut carbon dioxide emissions, and to introduce a `showroom tax` of up to Ј2,000 on the least fuel efficient vehicles.
[Independent.co.uk - Business RSS Feed] Business leaders losing faith in Brown and Darling, survey shows: However, The Independent's monthly "poll of polls", compiled by Professor Curtice, offers Mr Darling some comfort. It shows the Tories' hopes that the Government's decision to nationalise the Northern Rock bank would damage Labour had failed to materialise.
[US Finance News] UK finance minister Alistair Darling cuts growth forecast in ...: Economic Times, India - 1 hour ago LONDON: Britain’s finance minister, Chancellor Alistair Darling on Wednesday delivered his first budget by slashing growth forecasts for the UK economy to ”¦ British finance chief slashes economic .
[politics] Green ideas for the uk budget: Although Mr Darling believes that the domestic economy is resilient in the face of broader international volatility, this ignores a number of deeper underlying trends which are likely to increase the UK’s insecurity.
[THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG] UK/Ireland Small Business News Round-up - 14/03/2008: FPB responds to 2008 budget speech: The FPB is responding to claims made in the 2008 Budget speech by Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Rt Hon Alistair Darling MP, that the UK is “one of the best places in the world in which to do .
[Curly's Corner Shop, the blog!] The Bear and The Rock: Whilst not yet in free fall, the British economy is certainly slowing, investors are showing more support for commodities than equities, and the price of Gold has shot past $1000 per ounce as markets seek a safe haven.
[finance-globe.info - the finance blog] UK finance minister Alistair Darling cuts growth forecast in ...: LONDON: Britain’s finance minister, Chancellor Alistair Darling on Wednesday delivered his first budget by slashing growth forecasts for the UK economy to …
[Ali's blog] Looming problems for Britain: Mr Darling cannot begin to offer the sort of fiscal relief under way in America. Any such move would breach EU deficit limits and push Britain beyond the point of economic respectability, in company with Hungary.
[RICKSPACE - Rick Clark's Blog and Photo Gallery] Why the UK’s property downturn will be worse than America’s: I find myself wishing I had a pound for every time Chancellor Alistair Darling blames the UK’s growing economic problems on those annoying Americans and their subprime crisis (as he did in last week’s budget).
[An Inconvenient Blog] Darling plans Labour’s greenest budget yet: The chancellor is coming under pressure from the Conservatives and the Confederation of British Industry to announce a further cut in the headline rate of corporation tax to catch up with European countries that have cut theirs below the UK’s 30% in recent years. George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, said yesterday that corporation tax rates should be reduced to help revive the economy and boost competition.
[Irish Mortgage Brokers: Blog] Is London losing its head?: Supporters of the non-doms say that they are not out there taking the pi$$, they are taxed on UK income the same as anybody else, its just the income they earn elsewhere that they are immune from, the actual way this can work though is that a person from another country sets up a company and goes to work in the UK, the income they earn is paid to the foreign company not to them directly in the UK. so then they don’t have to pay tax, now lets say this company was set up in Nevis, or Antigua?
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