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Six predictions for the emergency Budget

Wednesday, June 16, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories: Economy, Tax | Tags: tax planning, capital gains tax, CGT, pensions, VAT, NIC, budget, tax avoidance, corporation tax, National Insurance Contribution

Should companies be preparing for the worst this Tuesday (22 June 2010)? Here’s what Francesca Lagerberg, Grant Thornton’s Head of Tax, thinks Chancellor George Osborne has in store in the emergency Budget…

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Pre-Budget Report roundup and reaction

Tuesday, December 15, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories: Tax | Tags: tax, CGT, inheritance tax, IHT, pensions, NIC, disclosure, reaction, analysis, PBR, comment, NDO, Offshore Disclosure Facility, banks, Pre-Budget Report, National Insurance Contribution, financial sector, bonus, HRMC

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Highlights (or lowlights) from today’s Pre-Budget Report - more questions than answers?

Thursday, December 10, 2009 | Posted by: Francesca Lagerberg
Categories: Tax | Tags: Francesca Lagerberg, NIC, PBR, Pre-Budget Report, National Insurance Contribution, Banks Bonuses

“Today we are going to cover some of the highlights or the lowlights from the Pre-Budget Report. There really was a lot of absence of real detail in this Pre-Budget Report. We were expecting some interesting announcements, some clarity and actually what we got were a lot more questions than answers” - Francesca Lagerberg

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