Payroll debt regime for Scots firms
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Businesses employing Scottish staff who default on their personal debts face having to administer payments through the payroll from tomorrow.
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Legal action was taken against IBM concerning its conversion to a controversial cash-balance pension plan. Under the terms of the agreement, IBM will pay at least $300 million to settle certain claims in the complex lawsuit.
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In executive compensation at least, where America leads, the UK follows. That's why it should come as no surprise that the total earnings of chief executives at British blue-chip companies have doubled over the past five years. For Americans, the surprise may be that average annual compensation for chief executives of FTSE 100 companies is so low: a mere &pound;3.17m, according to the latest report from Incomes Data Services, a UK research group. Compare the $48m earned last year by Stan O'Neal of Merrill Lynch.
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UK businesses are set to prosper during the next few months - but this could trigger more interest rate rises, a report says.
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Irregular hors d'ouevres, scheduling mishaps, and the stockbroker's eternal dilemma.
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Business & money: Financial markets anticipate swift and hefty cuts in British interest rates next year
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Business & money: Defeat for banks could wipe out Â£3.5bn of income as RBS blames OFT for customers' complaints
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SNP leader Alex Salmond says monetary donations to the party have helped to slashed its debt.
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Â· Company faces insolvency without Â£400m cash boostÂ· Public-private deal was driven by Treasury
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By NO BYLINE  SCHOOLS across East Lothian are to spend a Scottish Executive cash injection on new books, computers and musical instruments.   A total of GBP 742,000 was set aside for the county's schools out of a national pot of GBP 40 million announced last November.
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Coughs up HR offering for SMBs Acquisition-happy payroll software maker Sage (UK) has moved into the HR biz with the launch of a new system aimed at SMBs.â¦
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Business & money: Â· Evidence scant that big salaries stop brain drainÂ· British managers 'are not in the premier league'
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Business & money: Â· We warned of trouble months ago, say chiefsÂ·  Loan to ailing lender reaches nearly Â£8bn
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By ROBBIE DINWOODIE CHIEF SCOTTISH POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT  A GBP14M computerisation project completed by Scottish Enterprise last year is to be scrapped in favour of a new system costing GBP7m, prompting an MSP to demand an investigation by ministers.
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An online offer you can refuse Thanks very much this chilly Friday to reader "souleh" for drawing our attention to a once-in-a-lifetime loan offer from the Bank of Scotland, currently wowing punters down at fish4:â¦
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Britain's budget deficit ballooned last month, when the public sector net cash requirement (PSNCR) rose to 10.8 billion pounds (15.5 billion euros, 19.5 billion dollars), the biggest September shortfall on record, official figures showed.
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British public finances suffered last month their worst September since comparable records began while borrowing in the fiscal year to date is running