Synopsis: Short summaries of articles we think you will find useful from some of the weekends broadsheets. At the end of each summary is a link to take you directly to the relevant article. Please see Helpful Hints at the end of the bulletin.
Date posted: Monday, November 04, 2013
ARTICLES
Financial Times:” Borrowers warned over convoluted tax planning”. Wealthy homeowners who use complex tax avoidance planning could find it difficult to get a mortgage if they cannot clearly demonstrate their income to the lender.
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Financial Times:” VCTs awash with cash despite boost for EIS”. Investors have been pouring money into venture capital trusts (VCTs) this year despite predictions that the enhanced tax relief for Enterprise Investment Schemes (EIS) would divert attention away from these products.
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Financial Times:” VCTs offer tax breaks and a chance of a good return”. With generous tax breaks, venture capital trusts are designed to help investors generate a potentially attractive return on capital and provide finance for small businesses that are looking to grow.
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The Times:” Money Made Easy: Your five-minute guide to deposit protection”. Last week EU members discussed a plan to safeguard higher amounts of savings
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The Telegraph:” Pensions crisis? Only if you’re middle aged”. Workers in their 40s face the biggest challenge, data suggests, so here are tips to beat the squeeze, whatever your age
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The Telegraph:” Families face new tax-grab on inheritance trusts”. The taxman plans to impose new charges on trusts used by wealthier families mitigate IHT
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HELPFUL HINTS
1. LINKS TO ARTICLES:
We have now provided direct links to the articles referred to in the article. These can be accessed by click on the “To go directly to the article click here” at the end of each article summary
2. REQUIREMENT TO SUBSCRIBE TO SITES:
As some Opus Gold users will be aware, many of the broadsheet newspapers that are traditionally covered in our From the Papers bulletin, are changing (or have changed) their free online access to articles.
Currently the Financial Times and Weekend Financial Times only allows access to view 8 articles a month free, then requiring the user to subscribe to their online service. From 1 July 2010 The Times, Saturday Times and Sunday Times articles are no longer available for free online. Instead a daily or monthly fee will have to be paid to access the articles.
We are aware of the inconvenience this will cause to our users. Unfortunately, due to the stringent copyright rules enforced by the newspapers we are not allowed to copy the articles onto our bulletin to make them available to Opus Gold users, thus our only option is to put a direct link to the article on the newspapers own website.
Although we will continue to produce From the Papers bulletins linking to these articles, users should be aware that access too many will now be blocked unless a personal subscription to the newspapers site is taken.
Once again we apologise for this inconvenience but this is something outside of our control.
QUICK LINKS
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