Tour firms lose 'green' tax case
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A legal challenge to the way the government's "green" tax on air travel was introduced is thrown out by the High Court.
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Former world number one tennis player Andre Agassi has won his appeal against a High Court ruling that athletes and other professional entertainers are liable to tax on sponsors&#39; payments while working in Britain.
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Business & money: Travelodge accuses Ryanair and easyJet of 'squeezing the life out of British tourism'
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The government is raising billions of pounds more in green taxes than it needs to cut the UK's "carbon footprint", a report says.
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Credit card company MasterCard drew a rebuke at a closed European Commission antitrust hearing last week after claiming incorrectly that Britain had dropped an investigation into its fees, people who were present said.
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Business & money: Â· Two years of strife over dual control ends  Â· France and Germany fall out over raising new funds
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Indonesian gov't to sue firms over forest fires    JAKARTA, Sept.
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Â· Inspectors split difference over building in south-eastÂ· Tories accuse PM of reneging on green belt
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Europe's second highest court threw out an appeal by France TÃ©lÃ©comÂ of the European Commission's 2003 antitrust ruling against the firm on Tuesday, ordering it to pay the â¬10.35 million ($12.97 million) fine.
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Business & money: Â· Firm teaching energy assessors sacks 100Â· Government could be sued for lost earnings
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A report calling for more building on green belt land in England is criticised by environmental groups.
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Environmentalists think ahead to the effect of tourists and investors on a landscape of crucial habitats.
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LOS ANGELES: British rock legend Rod Stewart yesterday lost a lawsuit brought by concert promoters who demanded he return a $780,000 (BD294,060) deposit made for nine concerts he never gave.
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We want cheaper petrol Green taxes are being used by the government to raise revenues, rather than tackle climate change, and are socially unjust and bad news for consumers . These are the conclusions of the Taxpayers Alliance (TPA), a right-wing lobby group dedicated to a low-tax society.â¦
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CHICAGO -- Genentech Inc. lost a ruling on a patent that generates an estimated $300 million a year in royalties from rivals using the technology to make cancer and arthritis treatments.
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The Times newspaper reports that Littlewoods Shop Direct Group has reduced its losses after selling its high street stores.  Pre-tax losses improved to GBP17.3 million in the year to April 2006, compared to a GBP55.5 million loss in the year to April 2005.
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NEW YORK -- Two major insurance companies named in the New York attorney general's investigation into questionable sales practices have discontinued the use of incentive fees, which are at the center of the probe.