In recent years, HMRC has faced a barrage of criticism over its customer service, specifically the high volume of unanswered phone calls. The scale of the problem is considerable. Last year, an astounding ten million calls to HMRC went unanswered. To put this into perspective, that’s almost a quarter of all the calls made to […]
A new survey has revealed the UK’s sentiment regarding pensions and retirement. The survey, conducted by investment comparison site Investing Reviews, asked over 2,000 users their opinions and attitudes towards retirement, pensions and investments to better understand the nations sentiment around said topics. Interestingly, as tensions in France continue to rise over the raising of […]
UK publishers have urged the prime minister to protect authors’ and other content makers’ intellectual property rights as part of a summit on artificial intelligence. The intervention came as OpenAI, the company behind the ChatGPT chatbot, argued in a legal filing that authors suing the business over its use of their work to train powerful […]
Tourist attraction, backdrop to millions of selfies and one of the world’s most easily identifiable landmarks. Cape Town’s Table Mountain is all of these things, but now it has found a new role: as a guide to what will happen to UK interest rates. For Huw Pill the opportunity was too good to pass up. […]
In February this year, Waldeck welcomed Harpaul Singh Dhindsa, Head of Careers & Employability and Louise Huxley, Employer Engagement Advisor from the University of Lincoln, UK to their Head Office at Wellingore Hall in Lincoln. The pair joined Director, Stuart Denniss, and University of Lincoln Placement Student, Sophie Vanstone, so that Sophie could showcase her […]
Annuities may have gone under the radar somewhat for much of the past decade or so, but all that has changed in recent months. A surge in sales has put annuities firmly back in the headlines, with thousands more retirees choosing an annuity for retirement income. According to the Association of British Insurers 16,256 annuities […]
Britons with second homes in France are facing a “galling” increase in taxes on properties they can visit for only half the year. Owners have already been hit with post-Brexit restrictions that limit visa-free stays in the European Union to 90 days in any 180-day period and the “double whammy” with higher rates is said […]
Plumbing tycoon Charlie Mullins says he will pay London nurses’ ULEZ charges and called for the scheme to be “abolished immediately”. The Pimlico Plumbers founder and multimillionaire has vowed to shell out the cost for all nurses newly affected by the ultra low emissions zone (ULEZ) charge in September. “This is a tax on working […]
58 per cent of UK employees believe they’ve been denied a promotion due to lack of digital skills, according to new research. Alongside this, 58 per cent of workers believe that their organisation doesn’t have enough time to train staff effectivity, with younger staff feeling particularly neglected as 70 per of those between 18 and […]
Economists have warned that calls from Conservative MPs for Chancellor Jeremy Hunt to cut taxes after improved borrowing data emerged show “questionable judgement”. Three backbench Conservatives piled the pressure on, according to the Financial Times, with calls for “personal tax reductions” to “stimulate the economy”. The pleas came after figures from the Office for National […]