A TV campaign has been launched by HM Revenue and Customs to encourage people to report tax cheats.
The £1.7m advertising campaign aims to cut the number of people that avoid taxes in the UK.
The advert features a plumber boasting about how he is cheating the system and how he is able to get away with […]

Powergen has put its gas prices up by 24% and its electricity prices up by 18.4% in a response to recent increases in its wholesale costs.
The power company is the latest in a line of utility companies to up its prices in a response to the rising global costs of oil and gas.
The company claimed […]

Sales of fund based Individual Savings Accounts (ISAs) increased to £82m in January this year, new research has found.
The research from the Investment Management Association showed that net sales experienced a sharp year on year increase from £39m in January 2005 to £82 million in January this year.
The most popular type of funds in January […]

House prices dipped in February, according to the latest survey figures from Nationwide.
The average price of UK houses fell by 0.2% in February and the average house price in the UK is now £158,578.
But over the last six months the building society said growth in house prices has still been strong, and that the prices […]

A half of all Brits would save more if it was easier for them to put their money aside, new research has showed.
The research from National Savings and Investments (NS&I) and Tesco Personal Finance found that almost half of all people (46%), complain they only have limited time to make financial decisions, making it harder […]

Women are spending more on following football teams than they are on beauty products, new research shows.
The research from Virgin Money surveyed 1,022 people and found that women spent £710m on match tickets alone, and they also spent £297m on club merchandise, such as replica shirts, scarves and programmes.
In total women spent £1.008bn on football […]

Fewer people are working unpaid overtime, as the number of hours people work unpaid fell for the fourth year in a row this year.
According to the Trades Union Congress 4.76m workers did unpaid overtime last year – a six per cent fall since 2001.
The average amount of unpaid overtime was 7.4 hours a week for […]

Women in the UK are earning up to £1m less than men over their working lives because of a culture of inequality, according to a Government appointed commission.
The Women and Work Commission, appointed by the Prime Minister to examine barriers to women’s pay in the workforce, said that the ‘gender gap’ between men and women’s […]