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Budget 2007: Sting in the tail of 2p cut [03/22/2007 01:17 PM]
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The surprise 2p income tax cut appeared to leave many better off, but a sting in the tail axed the lowest tax rate and raised National Insurance
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Budget 2007: The complete tax tables [03/22/2007 01:17 PM]
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How the Chancellor's changes will affect you this year and next, whether you are young and single or living on a pension
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Market report: Thursday latest [03/22/2007 01:17 PM]
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10.00:One clear loser in Gordon Brown's Budget was Mecca bingo operator Rank as its shares tumbled to a new low for the year
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Standard Life to slash 1,000 jobs [03/22/2007 01:17 PM]
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Life and pensions group Standard Life said today it plans to strip another 1,000 jobs from its business over the next two years
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The Sony paystation [03/22/2007 01:17 PM]
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The launch of Sony's Play-Station 3 at midnight tonight has been overshadowed by claims the games console is a rip-off
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Council tax 'not broken' claims report [03/22/2007 01:17 PM]
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Homes worth more than £2.5m could pay more council tax under reforms proposed by the long-awaited report into local authority funding
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'Supersewer' could add £40 to bills [03/22/2007 01:17 PM]
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Plans for a £2bn 'supersewer' for London were due to be given the go-ahead today - Experts warned the project could add £40 to the average water bill
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Budget 2007: What it means to us [03/22/2007 01:17 PM]
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Hardworking couple Kevin and Georgie Sansby see no cause for celebration in the final Gordon Brown Budget, but pensioners could be better off
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Budget 2007: Shock income tax cut to 20p [03/22/2007 01:17 PM]
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Families with children and pensioners were clear winners in Gordon Brown's Budget but even with the surprise 2p income tax cut, not everyone will be better off
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Budget 2007: Main points at a glance [03/22/2007 01:17 PM]
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Gordon Brown chopped 2p off the basic rate of tax in his eleventh and final Budget. Here is our guide to the main announcements in his Budget speech
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Budget 2007: A 50% raid on gambling profits [03/22/2007 01:17 PM]
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A new 50% tax on the profits of larger casinos will reverse years of favourable treatment for the gambling trade
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Another rate rise 'just weeks off' [03/22/2007 01:17 PM]
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The 11.6m homeowners with mortgages were put on red alert yesterday that a fourth interest rate rise could be just weeks away
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Cheap CD imports halted by court [03/22/2007 01:17 PM]
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Music fans will no longer be able to buy cheap CDs and DVDs from internet stores that bring in supplies from outside Europe
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Barclays bank scandal exposed [03/22/2007 01:17 PM]
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A BBC undercover reporter worked at Barclays for four months. She discovered dishonesty, contempt for customers and a ruthless sales culture
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Shares turmoil averted a rate rise [03/22/2007 01:17 PM]
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Homeowners were spared another rise in borrowing costs this month as stock market turbulence prompted the Bank of England to hold interest rates at 5.25%, it was revealed today
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Barclays plots move to Holland [03/22/2007 01:17 PM]
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Barclays Bank is planning to move its head office to Amsterdam in an effort to persuade Dutch rival ABN Amro to agree to an £80bn merger
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20% of new car buyers go green [03/22/2007 01:17 PM]
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The number of Britons looking to buy 'green' cars has risen three-fold over the past 12 months, a survey has found
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Ofcom to probe pay-TV market [03/22/2007 01:17 PM]
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Media regulator Ofcom announced it is to launch an investigation into the pay-TV market in the wake of the BSkyB and Virgin Media battle
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Home loans record but 'boom near end' [03/22/2007 01:17 PM]
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Mortgage lending soared to record levels last month, but the boom in the housing market could be drawing to a close
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Investors lose £20bn Enron battle [03/22/2007 01:17 PM]
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Three investment banks, including Barclays, have won a landmark victory after a US court threw out a £21bn Enron class action
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Sixteen in fight for Sugar's plum job [03/22/2007 01:17 PM]
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A London Olympics hopeful, a bankrupt entrepreneur and a quantum physicist are among the fresh batch of contestants vying for a job with tycoon Sir Alan Sugar
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Hospitals' £95m parking bonanza [03/22/2007 01:17 PM]
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Hospitals were accused of exploiting patients and their families yesterday after it emerged they raked in £95m from car parking fees last year
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Gordon assails tax rates [03/22/2007 01:17 PM]
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The 11th and last budget from Gordon Brown is a blockbuster - He often talks about the challenges of globalisation and now he has set out to meet them
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Why we're Browned off [03/22/2007 01:17 PM]
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Brown has tried to force as many people as possible onto tax credits and means-tested allowances. But those who choose to stand on their own feet have been more highly taxed.
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