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• Why Have A Boat Surveyed?
  If your are thinking of buying a yacht you must have an independent marine survey before you go ahead.
  Published 20Apr2011, viewed 165 times

• What Exactly Is It That A Boat Surveyor Does?
  What does a boat surveyor do? A surveyor is somebody who performs an inspection on a boat in order to assess the Vessels overall condition.The type and detail of the survey will change depending on the client's instructions and requirements. For example if the survey is before buying a boat and the potential owner is satisfied with the operating equipment on the vessel then the survey may just be restricted to the Hull and Bulkheads.
  Published 04Apr2011, viewed 143 times

• Tips On Buying A Yacht
  Sailing yachts and motor boats are very involved pieces of machinery and at the same time they are both expensive to buy and maintain. So forewarned is forearmed and the more information you have before making a major purchase will leave you in good stead.
  Published 03Apr2011, viewed 118 times

• Gordon Brown Criticises Leaders Who Justify Aggressive Policy With Religious Faith
  Gordon Brown has been desribed as having no "emotional intelligence" and as "maddening"! These are the actual words used in the ex Labour PM Blair's memoirs. Brown now moans about Tony Blair but as usual he sounds like the man who can only see the splinter in Blair's eye but not the plank in his own.
  Published 10Mar2011, viewed 195 times

• Did State Benefits Drive British Immigration
  The Work and Pensions secretary has said that UK immigration has been driven by state benefits.Ex PM Gordon Brown had always said "British jobs for British workers". But what was actually acheived was British jobs going to foreign workers.
  Published 20Mar2011, viewed 179 times

• Loopholes Allow Migrants To Take British Jobs
  Tens of thousands of migrant workers will take UK jobs depite an annual limit having been introduced. An annual limit will come into operation in April 2011.However this limit will not apply to any foreign worker who is already in Britain.
  Published 19Mar2011, viewed 192 times

• Why Have A Yacht Survey?
  There are very many factors to take into account on a motor boat when buying a boat.
  Published 19Mar2011, viewed 124 times

• New Labour Shadow Chancellor Made Errors On His Expenses
  New Labour shadow chancellor could not get his expenses correct. In May 2005, when Mr Balls became the MP for Normanton, his wife Miss Cooper "flipped" her second home to the family house she shared with her husband and their three children in south London. They both began claiming a half share of the £1,466 monthly mortgage interest, a sum of £733 each compared with the £530 that Miss Cooper had been paying in Yorkshire.
  Published 18Mar2011, viewed 257 times

• Illegal Workers Claiming Benefits In Britain
  It has been revealed that the previous Labour government allowed some 155K illegal immigrants to be able to qualify for sickness benfits and maternity pay.
  Published 18Mar2011, viewed 209 times

• Turmoil In The British Tax Office
  British Members of Parliament have been told that the tax and customs authorities in Britain are "stretched almost to breaking point" and are rapidly losing the trust of members of the public
  Published 07Aug2011, viewed 249 times

• Why Is It Essential To Have A Boat Survey
  A pre survey report prior purchase can very often save the buyer considerable sums of money by requiring the vendor to deal with the defects or make a deduction in the price accordingly.
  Published 13Mar2011, viewed 141 times

• Did Labour Help Release The Lockerbie Bomber?
  The British Prime Minister Mr Cameron has asccused former Labour ministers of not revealing the complete truth relating to the premature release of the Lockerbie bomber.
  Published 11Mar2011, viewed 196 times

• Who Released The Lockerbie Bomber?
  Was The Labour Government complicit in the release of the Lockerbie Bomber. Why was the Bomber released early? Did the Labour government help in this matter? Did Gordon Brown do all in his power to help release the bomber?
  Published 23Feb2011, viewed 177 times

• Who Is Mr Balls The New Labour Shadow Chancellor?
  What do we know about Mr Balls the new Labour Shadow Chancellor?
  Published 07Mar2011, viewed 444 times

• The Labour Government Failed British Troops in Iraq
  When giving evidence before the Chilcot inquiry Admiral Lord Boyce has suggested that Labour ministers were not at all happy with the idea of regime change in Iraq and as such they were unable to provide the required funding for the conflict.
  Published 01Mar2011, viewed 198 times

• New Labour Shadow Chancellor
  Ed Balls can rightly claim that he has plenty of experience at HM Treasury and indeed he was Gordon Brown's closest political ally.
  Published 08Feb2011, viewed 238 times

• Tony Blair Criticised Over War Decisions From The Sofa
  Two previous chiefs of the UK civil service have said before the Chilcot Iraq inquiry that Tony Blair took Britain to war in Iraq with out the approval of his cabinet.
  Published 27Feb2011, viewed 277 times

• Ex Prime Minisiter Gordon Brown Fears His Mobile Phone Was Hacked
  Ex Prime Minister Gordon Brown has contacted Scotland Yard to state that his mobile phone may have been illegaly listened to while he was in Government.
  Published 10Feb2011, viewed 205 times

• Tony Blair War Inquiry
  Tony Blair was recalled by the Iraq enquiry because the account he had provided last year had been contradicted by the information provided by other witnesses and official documentation.
  Published 24Feb2011, viewed 208 times

• Was The Labour Party a War Monger ?
  The invasion of Iraq raises many questions and few answers. Why did Britain commit to War with out an exit plan. Why did British troops not have the proper equipment? Why did we take on a second front whilst still engaged in Afghanistan. Why did we not ensure that our casualties were kept to a minimum,
  Published 24Feb2011, viewed 244 times

• Labour Wants To Work With The Liberal Democrats
  The Labour party failed to secure a working coalition with the Liberal Democrats but many doubt that they really tried. It is very doubtfull if a coalition would have worked for for two main reasons. The first one is that the two parties if combined did not enjoy a working majority. The second one is that as a pre condition for a coalition the Labour leader Brown would have had to resign.
  Published 19Feb2011, viewed 226 times

• Labour Pact With The Liberal Democrats
  Ed Miliband has said that the decision by the Lib Dem's to form a coalition with the Conservatives was a "tragic mistake" and suggests that they should combine forces with the Labour party on matters of common interest.
  Published 22Jan2011, viewed 208 times

• Oldham By-Election Result No Cause For Alarm
  The Oldham by-election result goes typically to form for a by-election held early on in the life of a parliament. However hostory clearly shows that It does not give any form of security to the Labour leader Ed Miliband.
  Published 16Feb2011, viewed 223 times

• Is Ed Miliband a Future Prime Minister In Waiting?
  Having beaten his brother David to the post is Ed Miliband a Prime Minister in waiting or will he just be kept waiting. In many ways he reminds me of Neil Kinnock. Perhaps he is there simply to hold the Fort for a potential Prime Minister with charisma and gravitas to emerge as he clearly lacks these basic qualities.
  Published 15Feb2011, viewed 337 times

• Is Ed Miliband A Man Of Straw?
  Is Ed Miliband the star in a Punch and Judy show or is he really trying to lead his party out of the wilderness?
  Published 23Jan2011, viewed 214 times

• Is The Labour Party Lost?
  The Labour party seems to have lost its way under the new leadership of Ed Miliband. He beat his brother David by a very narrow margin and it would appear that his brother David would have been a much better choice.
  Published 12Feb2011, viewed 214 times

• Is Ed Miliband A Man Of Today?
  Ed Miliband the Labour party leader has said that "David Cameron is squeezing the living standards of ordinary families, he wants to make it easier to sack workers and he is letting the banks off the hook." He says this with out taking responsibility for the dreadfull mess left by the last Labour Government.Ed Miliband is not a man for today he is from the past!
  Published 26Jan2011, viewed 213 times

• What Does Lord Prescott Think Of Ed Miliband?
  What does John Prescott think of Gordon Brown,Tony Blair or the new leader of the Labour Party Ed Miliband. John Prescott disliked the ruling elite but has accepted a peerage. Always for the 'workers' in his Union but he had the use of a grace and favour home courtesy of the Union. Always for the 'people' yet he paid his council tax with public money and got caught. A 'man of the people' who drove around in two Jaguars!
  Published 25Jan2011, viewed 256 times

• Labour's Broken Promises
  When Tony Blair came to power in 1997 it sounded as if the UK had reached the promised land but sadly that is far from the the truth. Briain suffered badly under labour when Gordon Brown decimated the pension industry and sold over half of the UK,s Gold reserves at a twenty year low losing at least some £7 Billion..He led Britain into its greatest deficit in living memory and created a housing boom due to a lack of proper banking controls.
  Published 10Feb2011, viewed 295 times

• Has The Labour Party Lost Its Way?
  Ed Miliband claims that it is unfair to blame the labour party for the largest deficit that Britain has had since the 1930's. Yet he fails to acknowledge that his Government had introduced a light touch of Banking supervision or basically no control at all.
  Published 10Feb2011, viewed 231 times

• Ed Miliband Changes History
  Ed Miliband has stated that the Labour Party of which he is the new leader after Gordon Brown should not take the blame for the substantial debt mountain that Great Britain currently has. I wonder who he thinks is to blame then?
  Published 09Feb2011, viewed 227 times

• How To Qualify For A Tax Refund
  It is commonly believed that about one in three of UK taxpayers are due an income tax refund. Income tax repayments can derive from various sources of income.These sources of income vary and could be from an employment where paye tax has been deducted at the point of payment or from a self employed trade or profession.
  Published 05Feb2011, viewed 257 times

• Is Ed Miliband A Tax Expert?
  Ed Miliband is very critical of the increase in VAT from 17.5% to 20%.and claims that it is the wrong tax at the wrong time. This begs the question is Ed Miliband the wrong man at the wrong time in history.
  Published 19Jan2011, viewed 228 times

• Why Are Millions Owed In Income Tax Refunds?
  Why are there so many people due an income tax reclaim. Some folks say that it is because the Government wish to hold on to taxpayers hard earned money as long as they can. I doubt that, I think it is simply that they are not geared up enough to be able to correctly deduce the tax in the first place and then again it just takes them far to long to generate the refund.
  Published 04Sep2010, viewed 190 times

• Points On Surveying A Boat
  How does a boat surveyor check a motor boat hull for Osmosis, they will initially carefully along the boat hull for a rash, discolouration or blisters.Then by using a moisture meter specific for GRP (Glass Fibre Plastic) the moisture content will be checked. The latest types of meter read the conductivity through layers of antifoul.Some antifoul will need to be removed in various places to see what state of condition the Gel coat is in.
  Published 27Aug2010, viewed 274 times

• Why Should You Use An Independent Marine Surveyor?
  So you think you have located the yacht of your dreams? The next question to answer is whether you should have a marine survey? Well unless your Insurer asks to see a current independent survey then the decision is yours. But as yachts are both expensive to purchase and service an independent marine survey could be a good plan.
  Published 07Aug2010, viewed 182 times

• What Are The Different Types of Yacht Survey?
  There are various types of marine survey that you can instruct a marine surveyor to perform when examining a vessel.
  Published 14Aug2010, viewed 256 times

• Surveying a Boat
  Any body considering buying a boat should have a marine survey before they do. What ever the type of boat whether it be a sailing yacht a sports power boat or a motor cruiser a pre purchase survey is essential.
  Published 27Jul2010, viewed 205 times

• Precautions For Boat Buying
  Sailing yachts and power boats are complicated pieces of machinery and at the same time they are both costly to purchase and maintain.
  Published 06Aug2010, viewed 174 times

• What Does A Marine Surveyor do?
  What exactly is it that a marine surveyor does? A Marine Surveyor is somebody who performs an inspection on a boat in order to assess the Vessels overall condition.
  Published 31Jul2010, viewed 292 times

• Why do you need a Marine Surveyor?
  Why should you have a boat surveyed? There are many reasons and this article looks briefly at the reasons why it can more than just a good idea.
  Published 30Jul2010, viewed 195 times

• Could You Be Due an Income Tax Repayment?
  It has been estimated that approximately one third of PAYE employees are due an Income Tax Repayment. This arises for many reasons but the coding system is less than perfect. Also the Inland Revenue do not always check to see if a refund is due as more often than not a claim has to be made to actually get a repayment.
  Published 16Jun2010, viewed 217 times

• Claiming a Tax Refund
  Repayments can arise from income that arises from a multitude of sources. If you have been taxed under PAYE (Pay as you Earn) where income tax has been deducted at source using perhaps an incorrect tax code this will usually mean that you are due an income tax refund.
  Published 12Jun2010, viewed 231 times

• How to Reduce Tax
  Those people who are lucky enough to be high earners may be in for something of a surprise when they open their pay advice packets as the new 50% income tax rate comes into force.
  Published 08Jun2010, viewed 226 times

• Should Gordon Brown Resign?
  Gordon Brown has had to confirm that he is now fighting for his political life. He is still claiming that the result he wishes to see is yet another outright victory. Unfortunately, for him, the polls seem to say that the chance of such a result is impossible. He can not be surprised as he is not prepared to go out and meet the ordinary working man or woman who I think could be called the silent majority.
  Published 06May2010, viewed 715 times

• Who Bankrupted The British Banks?
  Who ruined the Banks in Britain by applying minimal supervision.A very light touch on banking control and taking control away from the Bank of England was a very dangerous and short sighted policy.
  Published 01May2010, viewed 412 times

• Government Fails The National Health Service
  The Labour Government is no longer trusted with the National Health Service (NHS) simply because the public believe that it has wasted money. A recent poll has shown that only one in five voters have seen any real improvement in the National Health Service despite a doubling of budgets,
  Published 04May2010, viewed 161 times

• Is Gordon Brown Finished?
  It has been reported that Gordon Brown plans a last ditch revamp of his campaign but it all is beginning to sound like Custer's last stand as it is beginning to look like the labour party will face a massacre.
  Published 03May2010, viewed 389 times

• Bad News For UK Recovery
  Bad News for Gordon Brown but some good news for the pound. Official figures have shown that Unemployment in the UK has increased by 43,000 to some 2.5 million during the three months to February 2010. The good news is that at least Gordon Brown did not do the figures.
  Published 29Apr2010, viewed 368 times

• Will Gordon Brown Form a Coalition ?
  Can Gordon Brown form a coalition and if so with who? The question that many people would like to know in the run up to the UK General Election on 6th May 2010 is whether Nick Clegg of the Liberal Democrats will work with Gordon Brown the current leader of the labour party.
  Published 28Apr2010, viewed 740 times

• Chancellor of Exchequer Succumbs to Forces of Hell?
  Has the Chancellor of the Exchequer succumbed to the forces of hell? It looks as if the Chancellor of The Exchequer Alistair Darling has given up the ghost as he and his wife have been packing and taking their personal books and mementos from Downing Street back to whence they came.
  Published 27Apr2010, viewed 648 times

• Who Lost £7 Billion ?
  It is estimated that £7 billion sterling was lost by the premature sales of Britain's gold reserves when prices were at a 20 year low. This does not sound like a clever move does it?
  Published 25Apr2010, viewed 729 times

• Who Stole Your Pension?
  Did Gordon Brown, who used to be the chancellor of the exchequer steal your pension? He stands accused of directly creating the crisis in British pension funds by draining ordinary working peoples retirement funds for the purpose of getting extra tax income.
  Published 25Apr2010, viewed 345 times

• Judging Gordon Brown
  How should we judge Gordon Brown's performance as Chancellor and latterly as Prime Minister.
  Published 22Apr2010, viewed 761 times

• Saving Ever Increasing Taxes
  Income Tax continues to rise for ever onwards and upwards and due to fiscal drag the tax burden in real terms keeps increasing. Fiscal drag arises simply because personal allowances and tax thresholds have not increased at the same rate as wages and pay has increased.
  Published 14May2010, viewed 212 times

• The End of Personal and Private Pensions by Gordon Brown
  The beginning of the end for personal and private pensions was on 17th March 1998his was the date of Gordon Brown?s first full budget. The Labour Government under Tony Blair as Prime Minister had come in to power in the May of 1997 and had inherited a strong economy from the previous Chancellor Ken Clarke.
  Published 15Apr2010, viewed 811 times

• Natural Sinus Remedies
  Most folks will have experienced sinusitis at some part during their lives as it very often develops after a common cold. How do you treat it? Natural alternatives work better than antibiotics in many cases.
  Published 11May2010, viewed 185 times

• Sinus Problems
  You begin to realize that you have been suffering with what you though was just a mere common cold for far too long. You continue to wake up with a sore head and your nose feels blocked and irritable.
  Published 10May2010, viewed 235 times

• Simple Tax Savings
  One always has to be aware that tax avoidance is a legal means of minimizing your tax bill where as tax evasion is illegal and must be avoided. HMRC (Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs) have increasing powers and this is a very strong deterrent to ensure that one does not become involved in evasion.
  Published 09May2010, viewed 173 times

• Gordon Brown MP
  What ever we may think of Gordon Brown MP he does seem to be a great survivor but I think in many ways he reminds me of a captain on a ship that has lost control of its steering, navigation and radar systems.
  Published 15Apr2010, viewed 389 times

• Stealth Budget Taxes Start to Bite Despite Some Amendments
  The stealth budget starts to bite despite some amnedmnets. As the UK Government dissolve parliament it has come under pressure to quickly pass their proposed budget.In so doing the Labour Government has had to drop three proposed taxes due to pressure from the opposition that they would block them.
  Published 07May2010, viewed 134 times

• Gordon Brown Fails the British Army
  It was reported in the British press in March 2010 that British Soldiers "would be alive" if they had the right equipment.
  Published 14Apr2010, viewed 330 times

• Qualifying for a Tax Refund
  How can you qualify for PAYE (pay as you earn) rebate often referred to as a p60 or a p45 income tax refund? Many people do qualify and about one third of employees can be due a refund.
  Published 05May2010, viewed 202 times

• Home Cures for Head Lice
  When you treat head lice it does have to be taken very seriously and of course properly and correctly treated for the treatment to be effective.
  Published 30Mar2010, viewed 226 times

• Refunds Due From Inland Revenue
  They say that tax rebates due to tax payers can be delayed by more than a year and this can sometimes be even after the refund has actually been claimed.
  Published 03May2010, viewed 205 times

• Budget Stealth Tax Hits the Average Man
  Is the latest UK budget a Stealth Tax budget on the ordinary man in the street? What is interesting of course is not what is in this rather meaning less budget but that which is not and that is why it is yet another stealth tax budget.
  Published 09Apr2010, viewed 272 times

• Workman Like Budget From Labour
  It has been reported that the forthcoming budget on Wednesday 24th March 2010 is a workman like budget and has been somewhat influenced by Lord Mandleson.
  Published 26Mar2010, viewed 380 times

• Beat the Budget & Tax Rises
  How might UK taxes be raised in the forth coming budget on 24th March 2010 and what can you do to stop their effect or shall we say prepare or plan for them
  Published 26Mar2010, viewed 319 times

• Ideas to Save Ever Increasing Taxes
  The Current Government promised that Taxation would not greatly increase under their leadership but a review of the figures published by HM Revenue & Customs' reveal that the Governments' of what we earn has nearly doubled in value since Labour came to power.
  Published 07Apr2010, viewed 232 times

• Tax Planning Ideas
  Small business owners and individuals can always benefit from some simple tax planning ideas before the end of the current tax year 2009-2010 which ends on the 5th April 2010.
  Published 20Apr2010, viewed 162 times

• UK Stealth Taxes
  .Millions of people are going to be hit by the tax changes that will be effective from next month (April 2010) but as these reforms were set some time ago many of them will have been forgotten by the ordinary man in the street and that us why they are often referred to as stealth taxes.
  Published 15Apr2010, viewed 302 times

• Enhanced Pension Annuities
  People who are retiring have to become much more savvy in their choice of pension products as rates on normal annuities continue to fall in the current economic downturn.
  Published 13Apr2010, viewed 191 times

• UK Pension Planning
  When planning for the future and by that I mean ones retirement the sooner you can start planning and making provision for the future the better. I say this as time fly's by very quickly and before you know it another ten years will have passed.
  Published 26Mar2010, viewed 249 times

• UK Tax Refunds
  Why are so many people due a UK tax refund.Is it perhaps that the people that work at the tax office do not seem to know how the system works.
  Published 10Apr2010, viewed 173 times

• Advantages In Having a UK Limited Company
  Having your own UK Limited company can provide one with many advantages as compared with being a sole trader.How ever having a Limited company does bring with it certain responsibilities and requirements that cannot be ignored.
  Published 09Apr2010, viewed 336 times

• Self Employed or Employed?
  How do you establish if you are Self employed or an employee for UK tax purposes.There is no actual no legal definition of what employment or self-employment is and it is based on previous judgments which are commonly referred to as 'case law'.
  Published 05Apr2010, viewed 203 times

• UK Pension Plans
  There are many reasons to invest in a self invested personal plan commonly known as a SIPP. There are taxation savings and it is possible to make provison for a spouse and even make arrangements for children and indeed grand children.
  Published 17Mar2010, viewed 260 times

• Are You Due a UK Tax Refund?
  It is amazing that there so many people who are due a UK Tax refund.It is estimated that some where between a third and a quarter of the UK PAYE employees are entitled to a tax refund. Usually these refunds amount to some where between £750 and £1,250.
  Published 01Apr2010, viewed 255 times

• UK Tax Planning
  What can you do to reduce your income tax liability if you are self employed or own your own Limited Company? There are many things that you can do that are Tax Avoidance as opposed to Tax Evasion. The first, Tax Avoidance, is legal where as Tax Evasion is not.
  Published 01Apr2010, viewed 230 times

• UK Tax Refund - do you qualify
  Do you qualify for a UK Tax refund ? Many people do and have no idea that they are entitled to quite a large sum of money.We estimate that about one in three of UK employees qualify for an Income Tax Refund.
  Published 27Mar2010, viewed 159 times

• Income Tax need not be taxing
  Income Tax is complicated and many people are due a refund but unless they make a claim the Inland Revenue wlll not repay untill you make a claim.
  Published 11Mar2010, viewed 198 times

• UK Income Tax Refunds
  How do you qualify for a UK Income Tax repayment claim? There are many ways that you can be entitled to a UK Income Tax refund.
  Published 04Mar2010, viewed 611 times

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