NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! In response to an executive order, President Donald Trump’s team will present him with a plan for creating the Golden Dome, a missile defense shield meant to guard against attacks that are increasingly difficult to defeat. This effort will demand innovative thinking, collective will and rapid action. Since my tenure as ...
Hiring the right staff has always been a challenge for businesses, but for small businesses operating outside major UK cities, the struggle is even more pronounced. With talent gravitating towards urban areas, rural and small town businesses often face difficulties attracting and retaining skilled employees. The challenge isn’t just about finding people but is about finding the right people, those ...
More than half of UK organisations are planning to cut expenses in response to rising government-imposed costs, including new tax and National Insurance increases taking effect from April 6th, according to a new survey of finance leaders. The research, conducted by financial management software provider AccountsIQ and expense management platform ExpenseIn, reveals that 52% of businesses are introducing expense cuts ...
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Keir Starmer is under growing pressure from senior UK and EU figures to take a tougher stance against Donald Trump, as fears escalate that the US president is preparing to impose sweeping tariffs on British exports — a move that could spark a global trade war and severely damage the UK economy. British officials in London and Washington are racing ...
Campaigners are urging UK police forces to take a far tougher stance on fraudsters, warning that scams have become a “penalty-free crime” amid a surge in reported fraud and high-profile global investigations. The call to action comes just days after the government announced it is working on an expanded fraud strategy in response to a 19 per cent rise in ...
Prosecutions of tax evasion enablers fall 75% in five years, raising questions over HMRC enforcement
Prosecutions of professionals who enable tax evasion have plummeted by at least 75 per cent over the past five years, according to new figures, prompting concerns that HMRC is failing to tackle the networks that support illegal tax activity. In 2023–24, fewer than five criminal cases were brought against enablers — individuals who knowingly help clients evade tax — down ...
Consumer spending in the United States rose in February but fell short of economists’ expectations, as households cut back on dining and travel while grappling with rising costs and economic uncertainty. Figures released by the US Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis showed that consumer spending climbed by 0.4 per cent last month. This followed a downwardly revised 0.3 per ...
President Donald Trump said Sunday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is trying to back out of a rare earth deal with the U.S., adding if he does that he is going to have ‘some problems.’ ‘I think Zelenskyy, by the way, he’s trying to back out of the rare earth deal, and if he does that, he’s got some problems ...
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Even a casual reader of history will have noticed over the past many years that the antiseptic term Common Era (CE) has slowly but surely replaced the elegant Anno Domini (AD) as the marker of the time period that began 2,025 years ago in most historical works. Though at first glance this ...