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Higher national insurance payments will leave low-paid frontline workers potentially more than £1,000 a year worse off, while also depriving firms of the cash needed to invest, according to the latest analyses.more

Fewer small and medium-sized enterprises complaining of lower turnover than before the pandemic; the biggest change for the better was recorded by service and trade companies - according to a study for the BIG InfoMonitor Debtors Register.more

PayPal is introducing new fees for payments between businesses in the UK and those in Europe, from November.more

Lobby group urges action on visas for foreign workers such as drivers, welders, butchers and bricklayersmore

Parents submit applications for the so-called 300 plus for a school starter kit from the beginning of July. Are you sure everyone will benefit from the program? There are doubts, writes "Gazeta Wyborcza" today.more

Female directors at the UK’s biggest companies are still being paid a fraction of the amount their male counterparts receive, new research shows, underlining the pay gap that still exists between men and women in Britain’s boardrooms.more

Barcelona president Joan Laporta on Monday gave details of the "dramatic" financial problems that persuaded him to release Lionel Messi.more

The British government will provide 232 million pounds ($320 million) in addition to National Lottery funding to support Olympic and Paralympic athletes for the Paris Games in 2024, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said.more

The UK economy grew by 4.8% between April and June, according to official figures, as most businesses emerged from lockdown. Data from the Office for National Statistics showed that the expansion in gross domestic product (GDP) was fuelled by retail, restaurants and hotels.more

Former Prime Minister David Cameron personally promoted Greensill Capital to investors before the controversial company collapsed. BBC Panorama discovered Mr Cameron appeared with the company's founder, Lex Greensill, at an event hosted by the Swiss bank Credit Suisse in 2019. The collapse of Greensill in March has left the bank's clients facing billions of dollars in losses.more

A series of fundraising events will take place during August to help ensure Notting Hill Carnival returns to London’s streets in 2022. The organisers previously announced the event, which had been planned for August 29 and 30, will not take physically take place this year due to the “ongoing uncertainty and risk Covid poses”.more

55 percent of Poles, in exchange for additional benefits, are willing to provide other entities with data from their bank account - according to the study of the National Debt Register in Poland.more

Britain will go ahead with a temporary cut to its foreign aid budget after Prime Minister Boris Johnson defeated a rebellion in parliament on Tuesday by lawmakers in his Conservative Party.more

Most Brits got wealthier during the COVID-19 pandemic, new research shows, boosted by increased savings and surging house prices. more

The operators of fitness clubs in Poland are demanding compensation for the restriction of their activities during the epidemic - the Polish daily "Rzeczpospolita" reports. more

Pub chain Wetherspoons is to increase the price of its meals this autumn when a temporary VAT reduction for food and non-alcoholic drinks sold in pubs and restaurants comes to an end. more

Britain lost 18,000 millionaires last year as the pandemic battered financial markets, while the rest of Europe’s rich grew their fortunes.more

The Polish Ministry of Finance has prepared regulations on tax amnesty. From July to the end of December next year, you will be able to report your past income that has not been taxed and pay an 8% tax on that income or a 2% levy on the value of your assets abroad.more

Sterling retreated on Thursday after the Bank of England kept its monetary policy unchanged, but vowed to monitor rising inflation as the U.K. economy emerges from its Covid-induced slump.more

The European Commission and a network of national consumer protection institutions today asked three major credit card companies - Visa, Mastercard and American Express - to change the way they communicate about potentially unfavorable recurring contracts.more

Prince Charles has plans to create a slimmed-down monarchy, meaning Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s son Archie will never be a prince, reports claimmore

The Commission today proposed a framework for a European Digital Identity which will be available to all EU citizens, residents, and businesses in the EU. Citizens will be able to prove their identity and share electronic documents from their European Digital Identity wallets with the click of a button on their phone.more

The United Kingdom’s Parliament will not be voting on the aid budget Monday, after a legal amendment designed to restore the country’s 0.7% aid spending target was ruled out on technical grounds.more

If you have arrears with the Tax Office, be sure to settle them. From July 1, the institution will use a new tool that will accelerate debt collection. People who do not pay the RTV subscription may also be in the spotlight. Everything will be done electronically, so it may only be a few days from the moment the arrears arise to the attachment of the bank account.more

More than two million people have volunteered to participate in the long-term unconditional basic income study. 122 people were selected, who will receive 1,200 euros per month under the project for three years, informs the ARD television. This is the first such study in Germany.more