Whitehall civil servants are able to pass the cost of hiring evening dress onto the taxpayer, it has been revealed. Since 2008 civilian staff worki...
Under laws dating back to medieval times, if no claimants come forward, all bona vacantia either pass to the Treasury on behalf of the Crown or to the duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster, if the deaths of individuals who leave neither wills nor heirs occurred within their boundaries.
MPs have voiced doubts about the credibility of the coalition's £310 billion plan for boosting Britain's infrastructure. The Public Accounts Commi...
Big accountancy firms are using "insider knowledge" gained from Treasury staff to help companies and wealthy individuals avoid paying UK taxes. The...
There's nothing in economic theory that says you pause a third of the way through a deficit reduction programme which has gone way off track; nor does the fiscal framework, now effectively defunct with the abandonment of the debt target, dictate this approach.
Former HBOS chief executive Sir James Crosby has stepped down from his role with private equity firm Bridgepoint following a damning report into the c...
Bankers who ran HBOS in the run-up to its dramatic collapse are ultimately to blame for its failures, and should never be allowed to work in the finan...
George Osborne has been engulfed in a PR disaster after his car was caught parked in a disabled parking space. On Friday morning the Daily Mirror p...
George Osborne has defended the coalition's controversial cuts in benefit payments and attacked his critics for peddling "shrill, headline-seeking non...
Most government departments have been told to prepare for cuts to their budgets of around 10%, it has emerged. Schools, the NHS and international a...
Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander has defended the Government's mortgage guarantee scheme, insisting its intention was "not to help peop...
One of the chancellor's closest allies has said that George Osborne "should stick to the strategy" of deficit reduction, despite admitting that auster...
One of the chancellor's closest allies has said that George Osborne "should stick to the strategy" of deficit reduction, despite admitting that "no on...
So George Osborne has lost his treasured AAA rating. We are now heading for record consecutive quarters of stop-start growth. Youth unemployment is at an all-time high. Neither the deficit nor the debt is coming down and there's no money to do anything about it. If we want to spend more we have to borrow more, and even Ed Balls can't be sure we'll end up better off if we do.
Britain's banks and the Chancellor came under fire from the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards on Monday after the government was criticise...
Banking bonuses at Lloyds Banking Group were cut by 3% across the bank, following its announcement that it had made a £570 million annual pre-tax los...
George Osborne is to face another round of calls to scrap the beer duty escalator in the 2013 Budget. The TaxPayers Alliance has stepped up a campa...
Changes to the way universities are funded will result in economic costs six times higher than any Government savings, new figures suggest. The Tre...
The continued dismal performance of the UK economy is entirely consistent with the predictions of those of us who have argued consistently for the last two years that premature fiscal consolidation would be severely contractionary in the short term, and risked doing significant long-term economic and social damage.
Beer sales have fallen for the eighth year in a row, with 381 million fewer pints being drunk in 2012, according to a new study. The British Beer a...
During times of economic difficulty, when we are taking tough action to keep welfare spending under control, how can we justify spending nearly £2 billion per year on child benefit to the wealthiest people in society?
Chancellor George Osborne blew nearly £1,000 of taxpayers’ cash on a trip to Germany that let him watch his team win the Champions League. The...
The Treasury would save over £2 billion a year if workers were paid the Living Wage because of higher income tax payments and lower spending on benef...
The Conservative Party's links to Google have come under fire after the internet giant's boss said he was "proud" of his company's tax avoidance schem...
Starbucks has said it will pay "somewhere in the range of £10 million" in UK corporation tax for each of the next two years. The US coffee firm - ...
