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UK Government loses Brexit court case – so what happens now?
January 25th, 2017
The British Supreme Court has ruled that the government does not have the right to trigger Article 50, formally beginning the Brexit process, without an act of parliament. The court voted eight to three against the government, following an ...
How Deloitte squeezes millions out of UK Government
December 22nd, 2016
They say a week is a long time in politics – in which case six months locked out of Whitehall could seem like an eternity. That will certainly be the case for Deloitte, the accountancy giant which is used ...
Big Four in talks with UK government on Brexit
July 21st, 2016
Accountants’ expertise will be needed as the trade negotiations start following the UK’s vote to leave the EU, the government has confirmed, while the Big Four are building up specialist Brexit teams to meet the demand for advice on ...
Brexit Would require the UK Government to hike taxes by GBP5bn (USD7.4bn) to meet its target
June 13th, 2016
The Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) has warned that in the event of a “Brexit,” the UK Government would need to hike taxes by GBP5bn (USD7.4bn) to meet its target of a balanced budget in 2019-20. The warning was ...
Google Grilling: Search Giant Faces More Questions Over Tax Deal With UK Government
February 11th, 2016
Earlier this month Alphabet, the parent company of Google, granted Google CEO Sundar Pichai almost $200 million in stock options. That sum, generous by any measure, is greater than the $185 million Google agreed to pay a week earlier to settle British tax issues covering the past ...
UK government sold £2.08 billion of shares in Royal Bank of Scotland
August 5th, 2015
UK government takes first step to Privatizing Royal Bank of Scotland Group The UK bailed out RBS in 2008 and 2009 by buying shares for £45bn and supplying it with cheap funds. It sold its stake at 330p a share, ...
Citi Urges UK Government to Create its Own Digital Currency
May 29th, 2015
Around the same time as Accenture’s call for the UK government to regulate bitcoin wallets, Citi suggested that officials should look into creating their own digital currency. This has been revealed in the Treasury’s release of a document entitled “Digital ...
UK Government to resume sell-off of its stake in Lloyds Banking Group
December 18th, 2014
The government is to resume the sell-off of its stake in Lloyds Banking Group over the next six months, potentially disposing of a further £3bn worth of shares in the run-up to the general election. Chancellor George Osborne took ...
UK Government defends mass interception of online data at tribunal
July 15th, 2014
Mass interception of online communications by intelligence agencies is necessary – even if only one person is being targeted, lawyers for the UK government have told a tribunal hearing complaints about surveillance. The government’s arguments were disclosed as lawyers ...
UK Legal chiefs say the Government should give EU citizens unrestricted access to UK jobs – Brexit
March 17th, 2017
Legal chiefs say the Government should give EU citizens unrestricted access to UK jobs in post-Brexit Britain and claim that British workers do not lose out to EU migrant labour. But they agree that the UK Government, not the ...
