The EU tax liberation day small print: Why the UK beats flat tax Lithuania May 12, 2014 WHEN I tell you Lithuania has a 15 per cent flat tax rate, does your mouth water at the idea of Britain adopting a similar system? As a former stockbroker who has researched “The Tax Burden of Typical Workers in the EU” for the past five years, I’ve learned to look at tax rates the [...]
City Moves for 08 May 2014 | Who’s switching jobs May 7, 2014 PwC The professional services firm has announced the appointment of Will Brown as a director in its enterprise resilience practice. He was most recently at KPMG, where he ran its business continuity team. Simmons & Simmons The law firm has appointed Mahrie Webb to its funds practice. She has over 12 years’ experience advising fund management [...]
Letters to the Editor – 07/05 – Political failure, Pfizer-AstraZeneca, Best of Twitter May 6, 2014 Political failure [Re: We are stuck in a disastrous spiral of misplaced interventionism, Friday] I couldn’t agree more with this diagnosis of political failure. But I think rising rent is largely a London problem. When I was younger, the idea was you bought a small two bed terrace and moved your way up the ladder. [...]
In Pictures: Cabbies cause carnage at Shard demo May 6, 2014 London's cabbies are blocking off access to the Shard, in protest at the lack of a suitable taxi rank. Drivers are there to mark the opening of a new hotel – the Shangri-La – at the building. Unite's cab section has said that the demonstration is in response to Transport for London's refusal to erect [...]
Clients not class mean success in accountancy May 6, 2014 PARTNERS in the UK’s top accountancy firms are most likely to be state-educated and from working or lower middle class families who did not go to the best universities, according to new research. In contrast to large law firms where partners tend to come from privileged backgrounds, partners from the big four accountancy firms – [...]
Banks to suffer from sluggish lending growth May 5, 2014 WEAK borrowing by businesses and households will dent banks’ finances in the coming years, analysts at the EY Item Club predicted today. The strong economic recovery will not feed through to bank lending as much as it did in previous growth spurts, and could leave banks struggling to get back to sustainable levels of return [...]
City Moves for 06 May 2014 | Who’s switching jobs May 5, 2014 Squire Sanders The law firm has hired Mark Gleeson, formerly head of the data and information practice at Addleshaw Goddard, as a partner in the firm’s global intellectual property and technology practice. Gleeson, formerly head of data protection for Barclaycard, has more than 15 years’ experience within the financial services industry, including time at consulting [...]
Three ways to get more from LinkedIn May 5, 2014 While you’ll have to put more work into your account, you can also easily monitor your success WHEN LinkedIn announced it had surpassed 15m UK members in March, the accompanying statistical breakdown put a new perspective on what passes for professional in Britain. Although the biggest UK employers represented included RBS and Lloyds, 146 chimney [...]
BBC parts ways with KPMG… and Paxman April 30, 2014 THE BBC has picked Ernst & Young as its new auditor, ending an 18-year relationship with KPMG. The corporation, which also announced yesterday that Jeremy Paxman was leaving its flagship Newsnight programme, chose EY following a competitive tender.
Credit check company Experian hires fresh faces for its top team April 29, 2014 EXPERIAN has announced two new faces for its top management team, following the promotion of former chief financial officer Brian Cassin to chief executive in January. Lloyd Pitchford, chief financial officer at safety service provider Intertek, will join the credit checking company in September this year as its finance boss. Jan Babiak, a former managing [...]