Category: Finance News

Mar 28

Optimism is rising as retailers bounce back

Retailers are becoming more optimistic about their near-term trading outlook after a “challenging winter”. For the first time since last September, a majority expect their sales to rise over the next month, according to the latest distributive trends survey from the CBI. Of the 135 companies polled by the business organisation, a net balance of […]
Mar 28

Members of ‘pension liberation scheme’ lose tax case

A businessman who presided over one of Britain’s worst “pension liberation” scandals was branded evasive, hostile and guilty of “highly regrettable conduct”, according to the judgment in a tax tribunal published yesterday. Craig Tweedley, founder of the pension scheme company Ark LLP, displayed “a total disregard for due diligence and careful administration and was primarily […]