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Exclusive: Barclays to offshore 1,800 UK tech jobs
News Unite asked for all affected staff to be given three months working notice and three months paid redundancy notice, and for redundant staff seeking retraining externally to be given a £2,000 allowance. [14 Jul 2008]
What the Budget means for the tech industry
News This year's budget also introduced an Annual Investment Allowance of £50,000 for all businesses and improved green initiatives. The R&D tax credit has been increased from 125 to 130 per cent for larger companies, with SMEs getting an increased tax... [22 Mar 2007]
Online car tax renewals extended across UK
News The DVLA system checks the driver and vehicle details through links with other external databases including the motor insurance database, the Post Office, local authorities, the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency, the Driving Standards Agency... [10 Jan 2006]
Third of government helpline calls go unanswered
News One of the worst individual helplines is the Attendance Allowance and Disability Living Allowance number where 79 per cent of calls went unanswered. The worst performing government departments are the Department for Work and Pensions, which missed... [09 Dec 2005]
Temporary Partial Expensing in a General-Equilibrium Model
White Paper This paper incorporates a nominal tax system into an otherwise standard sticky-price monetary business cycle (MBC) model, and uses the resulting framework to examine the effect of a temporary partial expensing allowance on investment expenditures... [22 Jun 2005]
ID Cards on Trial: Politicians, academics and IT experts back our campaign
News Why should a pensioner have to pay £100 - the equivalent of the winter fuel allowance - for an ID cards scheme that may raise more questions than it answers? David Davis, Shadow Home Secretary, told silicon.com: "The ID cards scheme looks like it... [06 Jun 2005]
Technical glitch crashes new DVLA tax renewal website
News The service currently links to the motor insurance database to validate insurance and will shortly involve linking to a number of other external databases including the new MOT computerisation database and the Department for Work and Pensions... [22 Feb 2005]
Brown gives IT much of the same
News An industry wish list would include an extension of the tax relief for R&D, an extension of the 100 per cent allowance for ICT purchases by SMEs and, possibly, some tax relief for training. The 100 per cent capital allowance on ICT purchases by... [17 Mar 2004]
IT seeks budget tax relief for R&D
News And it also wants the allowance for SMEs to continue. And last week, the DTI issued a new set of guidelines for claiming the R&D allowance which will come into effect next month. It's budget time and trade bodies are crying for tax breaks for their... [15 Mar 2004]
Coordinating Tariff Reduction and Domestic Tax Reform
White Paper Increasingly stringent conditions are required, however, to ensure unambiguously beneficial outcomes from this reform strategy when allowance is made for such important features as non-tradable goods, intermediate inputs, and imperfect competition. [24 Feb 2004]
Sun to post $1bn loss
News Sun also announced on Monday that it is increasing an allowance it had made for its deferred tax assets, resulting in a $1bn noncash charge in the fourth quarter, which ended 30 June. Although it has not yet finished its accounting for the first... [30 Sep 2003]
Power to the portal: Civil servants get teched-up
News In addition, staff will be able to look at HR files regarding their expenses, holiday allowance and departmental policy. File tax returns online or face a fine http://www.silicon.com/a53313 The Department for Education and Skills is to launch a... [16 May 2002]
Skills Survey 2002: Snared by IR35? Here are some options...
Comment Moreover, as an employee, not only do contractors benefit from being paid on the same day of each month without having to do any form-filling or chasing themselves, they are not restricted to the notorious five per cent expenses allowance. [28 Mar 2002]
BT gives 'fat cat' Bland £500,000 for three-day weeks
News The ex-BBC boss, who started work as chairman yesterday, will also take home a £5,000 tax planning allowance to help him handle all his money, and £1bn in free share options providing he buys £1m worth of shares himself. [02 May 2001]
Budget 2001 backlash: IT as a tax break will hamper ecommerce
News Businesses should invest in technology when it serves a specific goal, not because their competitors are using it or because they can get a capital allowance from it," he said. In a statement, he said that the government is creating a confusing and... [08 Mar 2001]
