News - Reliance launches retail venture
Posted on April 7, 2008 - Filed Under Finance insurance | Leave a Comment
Indian industrial group Reliance has made its foray into retailing, formally opening 11 stores in Hyderabad.
Branded “Reliance Fresh”, they are part of a $5bn project planned for more than 780 cities and 6,000 rural towns in India over the next five years.
The company aims to open stores in the top 70 cities within the next […]
Read More...News - Abramovich income ‘rises by £3bn’
Posted on April 6, 2008 - Filed Under Finance insurance | Leave a Comment
Russian case est finance finance hill in in insurance irwin mcgraw real series investor Roman Abramovich has seen his fortune grow by more than 3bn ($5.9bn) in the last year alone, a study suggests.
Mr Abramovich is now worth an estimated 10.8bn, according the Sunday Times Rich List 2006-07 study of the richest people either from […]
Read More...News - Should my business be VAT registered?
Posted on April 5, 2008 - Filed Under Finance insurance | Leave a Comment
Value Added Tax should be charged by VAT-registered businesses and finance insurance
people.
It is levied on the supply of their goods and services (output tax) and paid to HM Revenue & Customs.
However, because businesses also pay VAT on goods and services supplied to them (input tax), the amount of VAT actually paid is the […]
Read More...News - Warning on firm’s selling tactics
Posted on April 4, 2008 - Filed Under Finance insurance | Leave a Comment
People in the Isle of Man are being warned about bullying tactics used by a company selling satellite system insurance over the telephone.
A number of residents have contacted the Officer of Fair Trading (OFT) about tesco finance car insurance tactics used by the firm.
Customers say they are being pressured into giving their financial details to […]
Read More...News - Wales: A child’s right to play?
Posted on April 3, 2008 - Filed Under Finance insurance | Leave a Comment
For four and a half years Pembrokeshire County Council have encouraged community councils and local groups to run their own play areas, and have not been replacing playground equipment when it falls into disrepair.
But parents in some parts of Pembrokeshire say that not all communities are capable of running their own corporate est finance finance […]
Read More...News - Consumer chief takes aim at finance firms
Posted on April 2, 2008 - Filed Under Finance insurance | Leave a Comment
Peter Vicary-Smith is the new head of Which, formerly known as the Consumers’ Association.
He replaces Dame Sheila McKechnie, who died in January.
For nearly fifty years, Which has been one of the UK’s most powerful consumer voices.
As National Consumer Week draws to a close and the Financial Services Authority (FSA) prepares to start regulating mortgages from […]
Read More...News - Fewer firms face finance censure
Posted on April 1, 2008 - Filed Under Finance insurance | Leave a Comment
The number of firms being found guilty of wrongdoing by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) has fallen in 2005, law firm Simmons & Simmons has said.
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that the number of firms censured so far this year is 19, compared with 81 for the whole of 2004.
Late last year the FSA […]
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