Builders want £180m-a-year levy lifted as bill to fund industry training looms By Neil Craven for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:30 BST, 20 June 2020 | Updated: 22:30 BST, 20 June 2020 Construction firms are calling for a holiday from a £180million-a-year levy that they are due to begin paying as soon as next … Read more
HSBC faces £1.3bn legal claim for its involvement in film financing scheme set up to avoid tax HSBC’s private banking arm helped to promote the scheme It is estimated to have made £25million in fees By Neil Craven for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:30 BST, 20 June 2020 | Updated: 22:30 BST, 20 June 2020 … Read more
MIDAS UPDATE: Software provider Ideagen used by WHO delegates surges fivefold since 2014 By Joanne Hart for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:30 BST, 20 June 2020 | Updated: 22:30 BST, 20 June 2020 The World Health Organisation’s annual meetings are weighty affairs, attended by thousands of people. Personal attendance was not really an option … Read more
Energy prices have been falling since 2018 with a big drop in the last few months – here are the best deals which cost the same as four years ago… Energy prices are the same as they were at the same time four years ago The savings made by suppliers from cheap wholesale costs were … Read more
It is one of the most iconic scenes in Oscar-winning financial film The Big Short. Actress and model Margot Robbie pops up in a bubble bath with a glass of champagne to explain, in plain English, the world of subprime mortgage-backed securities, which helped trigger the financial crisis more than a decade ago. Now, in … Read more
Property sales will slump more than previously expected and remain subdued into next year, estate agent Savills has warned, as it issued new house price forecasts. Savills said it expected UK house prices to fall by about 7.5 per cent this year across the UK, with property values recovering at different rates of growth. While … Read more
In my mind, I’m at a Marty McFly level of cool, riding an electric scooter and sporting Nike Air trainers, zipping around a quiet private village cul-de-sac with the wind in my safety helmet as I hit a rip-roaring 15.5mph. ‘You look like Phil Dunphy,’ – the uncool dad from US TV sitcom Modern Family – … Read more
Back in 1909, Louis Bleriot piloted the first flight across the Channel, making history – and winning a £1,000 prize from this newspaper. That same year, the Straits Mortgage and Trust was set up to finance the Malaysian rubber industry. Today that investment trust, now known as Scottish Mortgage, is the world’s biggest and one … Read more
Ford’s nimble new Puma is the cat’s whiskers — and appears to have as many feline lives. I can vouch for this thanks to its brilliant safety system which, faced with a car stopping abruptly ahead, began slamming on the breaks just as my foot went for the pedal. The Puma name derives from an … Read more
Britain’s public finances are in a mess. The debt is greater than the size of the economy after the Government borrowed a record amount in May to save the country from collapse. The latest Office for National Statistics figures show the UK borrowed around £55.2billion in May, about nine times more than the same month … Read more