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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 schemes. [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 Chancellor must show how serious he is prepared... [21 Mar 2006]
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 and the TUC and this... [05 May 2006]
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 reaffirmed the government's... [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 "because the teaching and... [17 Mar 2005]
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 e-economy, Schröder reminded... [24 May 2000]
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 open letter he wrote to... [09 Nov 1999]
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, everything will just run a... [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" and "a disaster for... [03 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 concerned the high cost of... [16 Feb 2000]
Mobile auction billions to pay off national debt
News Chancellor Gordon Brown today announced plans to slash Britain's mounting national debt in the Budget, promising to pay off £34bn this year. The Chancellor received rousing support from the Labour benches as he told MPs that the amount represents... [07 Mar 2001]
IT helps slash £4.7bn off public spending
News IT has helped deliver £4.7bn of efficiency savings across the public sector during 2005, according to the Chancellor Gordon Brown's pre-Budget report this week. But the Chancellor's report coincides with criticism from parliamentary watchdog the... [06 Dec 2005]
Tech pros up in arms over tax change
News Technology professionals have reacted angrily to tax changes announced by Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling. The chancellor will raise this figure to 18 per cent on 1 April, 2008, to limit the profits of private-equity investors. [15 Oct 2007]
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 to boost UK start-ups, including a reduction... [09 Nov 1999]
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]
