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Real cost of VAT fraud revealed - VAT fraud is costing British taxpayer four times official estimates five times more other EU nations, according BBC Go green pay more tax - Homeowners who refuse make house flat more environmentally friendly face higher council tax bills, ministers have revealed



Real cost of VAT fraud revealed  [09/22/2006 01:17 PM]
VAT fraud is costing the British taxpayer four times official estimates and five times more than in other EU nations, according to the BBC
Go green or pay more tax  [09/22/2006 01:17 PM]
Homeowners who refuse to make their house or flat more environmentally friendly face higher council tax bills, ministers have revealed
Market report: Friday 12.00  [09/22/2006 01:17 PM]
Carphone Warehouse is limbering up for an assault on the high-growth US mobile phones market
Google chiefs earn £7m a day  [09/22/2006 01:17 PM]
Google founders are among the US's richest - Everyone on this year's Forbes rich list of the wealthiest Americans is a billionaire
Tax turmoil as another chief quits  [09/22/2006 01:17 PM]
The tax office is facing a widening power vacuum at the top just as it prepares for the annual flood of tax returns
Ex-minister slams pension reform  [09/22/2006 01:17 PM]
Former Labour welfare minister Frank Field yesterday condemned the Government's pension reforms as 'positively dangerous'
Branson in £1.7bn green pledge  [09/22/2006 01:17 PM]
Billionaire Richard Branson has committed $3bn of profits from the Virgin transport businesses to fighting global warming
Third of young families can't buy  [09/22/2006 01:17 PM]
More than a third of working families aged under 40 cannot afford to buy even the cheapest homes according to a new report released today
Supermarkets slammed over cheap booze  [09/22/2006 01:17 PM]
Bargain beer and spirit offers are being used by supermarkets as weapons against independent rivals, it has been claimed
SSE will raise prices in New Year  [09/22/2006 01:17 PM]
One of the UK's biggest power companies was today lining up a New Year hike in energy bills after a pledge to leave prices on hold for the rest of 2006
From market stall to a stock market float  [09/22/2006 01:17 PM]
A husband-and-wife team are planning to float their home furnishings empire on the stock market at up to £400m
Pizza Express wants larger slice  [09/22/2006 01:17 PM]
The owner of Pizza Express said today it planned to open up to 30 new restaurants in the coming year after seeing sales and profits rise
Drivers warned on scam firm's dud cover  [09/22/2006 01:17 PM]
The FSA is warning customers of Eeasybrokers, an unauthorised car insurance broker, that they could be breaking the law by driving with invalid cover
Broadband faces huge shake-up  [09/22/2006 01:17 PM]
Tiscali and AOL, which between them serve 3.4m UK customers, are said to be the subjects of two massive takeover bids, with BT among the predators
Nestle to axe 645 jobs in York  [09/22/2006 01:17 PM]
Confectionery giant Nestle is to axe 645 jobs at its biggest UK factory under a major restructuring plan, the firm announced today
Chelsea face spending clampdown  [09/22/2006 01:17 PM]
Roman Abramovich's ability to snap up any player for Chelsea Football Club could be restricted next season if new spending rules are brought in
Arsenal 'comfortable' with stadium debt  [09/22/2006 01:17 PM]
The cost of the Gunners' move to their new 60,000-seater Emirates Stadium has seen their debts soar from £153.3m to £262.1m
Homeloans hit new record  [09/22/2006 01:17 PM]
The London-led house price resurgence and a boom in summer interest pushed homeloans to a new record in August as Britain borrowed £32.7bn
Piccadilly beckons for LSE  [09/22/2006 01:17 PM]
None of the three great pillars of the City - the Bank of England, Lloyds and the LSE - deserve the Nasdaq makeover
Bermuda triangle for car sales  [09/22/2006 01:17 PM]
Financial Mails investigator Tony Hetherington responds to readers' complaints - this week he looks at a firm targeting car sellers
Charter makes it mark  [09/22/2006 01:17 PM]
Financial Mail's stockpicker Midas takes a look at Charter engineering and its interesting ride over the past few years
End this TV quiz disgrace  [09/22/2006 01:17 PM]
Lucrative participation TV quizzes are the latest craze and for companies of the stature of ITV, Channel 4 and Five to perpetuate this con is unacceptable, says Lisa Buckingham
Millions should love Sharpe  [09/22/2006 01:17 PM]
Love or hate him, you can't accuse Robert Sharpe, the suave boss of Portman Building Society, of not being true to his word