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Business
Graeme Brown B'ham Post 5 Jan 11
Business confidence has slipped back for the first time in 18 months in the face of continuing economic uncertainty.
Firms across Britain are concerned about their prospects for the coming months and plan to freeze investment and raise prices according to Lloyds TSB Commercial’s Business in Britain report, driven by an increase in the number of firms concerned that sales and profits might fall this year…
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Express & Star 30 Dec 10
Petrol will soar to an average of £1.30 a litre in January, new figures suggest. Crude oil prices jumped 44 cents this week after the recent sub zero temperatures sent demand soaring.
Fuel duty rises will add another 0.76p a litre on January 1, and will be made worse by the rise of VAT to 20 per cent a few days later…
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Express & Star 22 Dec 10
A father and daughter from Walsall who were involved in a £12 million VAT con have been spared an immediate stint behind bars.
Reginald Turner, former owner of The Rising Sun biker pub in Walsall and ex-president of Kavern Motor Cycle Club, and his daughter, single mother-of-two Tammy Copson, of Rowley Street, were both given a one-year prison sentence, suspended for two years..
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Advertiser 9 Dec 10
A Walsall man and his daughter have pleaded guilty to fraud offences they committed as part of a gang’s £12 million scam.
Reginald Turner, aged 62, of Broadway Well, and Tammy Copson, aged 32, of Rowley Street, were part of an operation which created an illegal network of companies to steal VAT. A third Walsall resident, Wayne Murden, aged 47, of Abelwell Street, also pleaded guilty…
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Express & Star 3 Dec 10
Five gang members, including a man shot by a mystery gunman outside a pub in Walsall, have been locked up for stealing £17 million in a sophisticated VAT fraud.
The gang was led by Harbinder Singh Samra, who was shot four times getting into his £250,000 Rolls Royce Phantom outside the Hardwick Arms pub, Streetly…
Business news
Birmingham Post 10 June 09
Experts are predicting a High Court ruling on Rank Group’s VAT bills could cost the taxman up to £500 million. Pub landlords, bookmakers and other leisure bosses throughout the Midlands were put on red alert when Rank, which runs casinos and Mecca bingo halls, triumphed in a civil case to prove it had overpaid on games of interval bingo and certain gaming machines.
Business
B'ham Post 1 Apr 09
HM Revenue & Customs is getting wise to the increase in “phoenix company” VAT scams, a Midland financial expert has said…
Business
B'ham Post 1 Apr 09
Many firms could find themselves caught up in an ever increasing snowball of penalties for late VAT returns tax specialists have warned…