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Be bold in Budget, Coventry and Warwickshire Chamber urges Darling
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The Coventry and Warwickshire Chamber of Commerce has pleaded with chancellor Alistair Darling to be bold in tomorrow’s Budget.
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Deloitte tax boss warns Chancellor will have to produce a juggling act
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Nigel Pickard, partner and head of tax at professional services firm Deloitte in Birmingham, believes the Chancellor will look to boost business activity by bringing forward public sector spending plans.
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Top-earners' tax hike 'very unlikely' to boost Treasury coffers - IFS
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Plans to increase taxes for top earners were “very unlikely†to produce the predicted boost to Treasury coffers and could reduce revenues, a think tank has warned.
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Message to Alistair Darling over Budget priorities
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Eric Williams, Birmingham-based national head of private client for Grant Thornton º£½ÇÊÓƵ, considers the options for Alistair Darling
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Why Darling needs to seize opportunity to send positive message
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Barry Smith, head of tax at professional service firm PricewaterhouseCoopers in the Midlands, hopes Alistair Darling uses the Budget to address the nation’s growing deficit and to modernise the tax system.
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Job losses of 1.4m amid 'serious grief' for 18 months
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The º£½ÇÊÓƵ faces 12 to 18 months of “serious grief†with the loss of about 1.4 million jobs – although the economy has halted its downward spiral, an influential survey has warned.
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LDC and advisers set up Cranswick-buy-out
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Midland private equity provider LDC and a team of advisers from the region were behind the £17 million management buy-out of Cranswick Pet and Aquatics.
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Allied Irish Banks warns it needs another 1.5 billion euros
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Allied Irish Banks yesterday said that it would need to shore up its capital strength by another €1.5 billion (£1.3 billion) on top of existing plans for a multi-billion government bail-out.
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Tough task for Alistair Darling
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Chris Sharpley, head of tax for professional services firm Ernst & Young, in Birmingham, believes the Chancellor will have to strike a difficult balance in his Budget on Wednesday
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Share price falls worsen the holes in company pensions
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Stock market falls in the first quarter of the year – notably during March – have seen an estimated £750million dip in the assets of 11 big West Midlands companies’ pension schemes.
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What can Mr Darling do now?
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Chris Sharpley, head of tax for professional services firm Ernst & Young, in Birmingham, believes the Chancellor will have to strike a difficult balance in his speech on Wednesday – but needs to act to stimulate the economy.
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Quantitative easing may have increased pension scheme deficits
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Quantitative easing may have indirectly increased employee pension scheme deficits, according to new estimates.
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Government scheme will mean £500m boost for West Midlands business
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An extra £500?million in lending could be available for West Midland businesses as a result of the government’s scheme to insure banks’ toxic assets, a senior Lloyds TSB boss said.
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Morgan Chase first-quarter profit beats Wall Street expectations
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United States banking giant JP Morgan Chase has posted first-quarter profits of £1.4 billion - adding to hopes that the sector’s worst storms are behind it.
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Swiss bank UBS cutting 8,700 jobs
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Ailing Swiss bank UBS is cutting 8,700 jobs after £1.18billion first-quarter losses but it is not known whether the axe will fall in Birmingham.
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UBS Birmingham office waits for details of redundancies
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Ailing Swiss bank UBS has revealed 8,700 jobs will be cut amid £1.18 billion first-quarter losses – but it is not known whether jobs will go in Birmingham.
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Darling's Budget solutions may prove unpopular
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Phil Waller, a tax expert from the Birmingham office of accountancy firm Mazars, explains why Chancellor Alistair Darling must navigate an exceptionally narrow channel at next week’s Budget as he plots a course that avoids on one side the danger of excessive government borrowing and on the other the threat of a depression.
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Turnaround hopes boosted by US giants surprise profits
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Hopes of a turnaround in the battered banking sector sent bank stocks soaring yesterday after better-than-expected profits from US giant Goldman Sachs.
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Midlands firms urged to move fast over flexible working
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Thousands of parents across the West Midlands are set to benefit from new rules surrounding flexible working meaning local businesses need to act, a Birmingham employment lawyer has said.
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Credit crunch and its impact on divorce settlements
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Kevin Harris-James looks at why the Myerson divorce case means the rules of the game are changing.
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º£½ÇÊÓƵ law firms advised to look towards Nigeria
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Nigeria could become a huge market for º£½ÇÊÓƵ legal services, the Law Society has said.
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Maxima expands after securing funding from bank
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A Birmingham-based legal sector professional services firm is doubling its headcount after gaining funding from Yorkshire Bank.
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Firms which avoid redundancies will be best placed for upturn, says lawyer
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Organisations shouldn’t have to resort to compulsory redundancies to see them through the current recession, a Midlands employment lawyer has said.
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Midlands law firms land Burbidge IP contract
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Two Midlands intellectual property teams have won an IP contract with a major manufacturer after beating stiff competition from national firms.
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