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RSS ChancellorChancellor Brown hints at tech-friendly budget
News The Chancellor also offered for consultation a simplification of VAT to help small businesses. In a measure he claimed would help encourage high-tech firms, Brown pledged to expand tax relief for employee share option... [08 Nov 2000]
Give us a greener Budget, Chancellor told
News The IT industry is calling on Chancellor Gordon Brown to address environmental issues when he announces his 2006 Budget. He added: "If the government is serious about tackling climate change then the... [21 Mar 2006]
CeBIT update: German Chancellor pours scorn on dot-doomongers
News Chancellor Schröder said he believes the recent turbulence in the IT market could in fact create a solid basis for a long-lasting upturn. The industry will remain the driving force for the growth of the world economy,... [23 Mar 2001]
Shadow Chancellor leads rallying cry against IR35
News Shadow Chancellor Francis Maude today hosted a meeting of the Professional Contractors Group (PCG) at the Houses of Parliament to rally support for changes to proposed IR35 legislation, and called the clauses "wretched"... [03 Nov 1999]
UK Chancellor sets out e-government roadmap for SMEs
News UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, kicked off his pre-budget tour by announcing a plan to invest a reported £52m in Internet services to help small businesses. In a speech made in Sunderland yesterday, Brown... [06 Mar 2000]
Chancellor doles out IT cash for schools
News The Chancellor of the Exchequer has guaranteed £1.67bn of funding for computers for schools as part of a three-year plan. In his budget speech on Wednesday, Gordon Brown announced the plan to raise spending on IT capital... [17 Mar 2005]
Lord Chancellor denies Web site censorship
News The Lord Chancellor's office has refuted suggestions that it demanded the closure of a Web site set up to criticise five judges. The site, hosted by Kingston Communications, was set up by James Hilbert and featured an... [09 Nov 1999]
UK Chancellor stirs up local loop controversy
News Gordon Brown, the UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer, told financiers last night he wants urgent progress to be made over the unbundling of the local loop. Speaking at the Smith Institute in London, Brown said he is... [16 Feb 2000]
German Chancellor vows to battle skills crisis
News The high-tech and telecoms industries should not take priority over traditional industries like manufacturing, German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder told a conference in Berlin today. Amid all the hype about the new... [24 May 2000]
Gordon Brown dubbed "analogue Chancellor"
News Gordon Brown has been dubbed the "analogue Chancellor" for failing to save the Home Computing Initiative (HCI). Shadow paymaster general Mark Francois said in a statement: "This scheme was endorsed by the DTI, the CBI... [05 May 2006]
Brown cuts taxes to kick start 'enterprise culture'
News The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, announced cuts in capital gains tax in his pre-Budget report to the House of Commons today. The Chancellor's speech contained a number of measures designed... [09 Nov 1999]
Tories broadside Blair over open source
News George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, has criticised the government over its apparent lack of support for open source software. The shadow chancellor went on to applaud "software that's developed... [08 Mar 2007]
UK government urged to give IT industry tax breaks
News UK Chancellor Gordon Brown's annual budget must make bold tax allowances for high-tech firms if the UK is to become a global ecommerce leader, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). PwC also called on the... [20 Mar 2000]
Gates and Brown: Tech transforming education
News Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has laid out a vision for how technology is going to transform education, while Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown emphasised how IT can help the UK face the challenges of globalisation. [31 Jan 2007]
Brown takes cue from Silicon Valley
News The UK Chancellor, Gordon Brown, presented his pre-Budget report to a boisterous House of Commons this afternoon, and came out swinging for small businesses. The Chancellor did not divulge full details... [03 Nov 1998]
