An ethical tax designed to raise up to 20 billion euros a year could be the key to funding renewable energy projects in the world’s poorer regions, according to proposals by the French delegation to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen next week.
The French concept of a ‘justice-climate’ plan could be funded by a tax on financial transactions, similar to that once proposed by the Nobel prizewinning economist James Tobin.
The government has promised a new personal tax to help the environment, in the week when Copenhagen gears up for its international conference on climate change. The new ‘eco-tax’ would aim to vastly reduce the amount of plastic in circulation, by imposing a charge on the use of plastic carrier bags in shops and supermarkets. Despite [...]
If you are a member of a defined benefit or final salary occupational pension scheme, you are currently protected against your company going into liquidation by the Pension Protection Fund.
However, the continuing decline in final salary pension schemes may jeopardise the ability of the Pension Protection Fund to offer this protection in the longer term, leading pensions experts predict.
Are you one of the 33m* people in the UK who could reduce your personal tax bill? Here are five ways to help you with efficient tax planning.
Mortgage-seekers and first time buyers looking at a property worth up to £175,000 should act immediately to avoid stamp duty under the current government exemption. While properties valued up to £175,000 are not subject to stamp duty at the moment, the threshold is to be revised and possibly cut on 1st January 2010, as a cash-strapped Chancellor of [...]
