FROM THE PAPERS
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, July 14, 2014
ARTICLES
Financial Times:” Restore faith in pensions to fix the housing crisis”. Problems in the housing market have their roots elsewhere Click here to go directly to the article
Financial Times:” Extend income drawdown, says Which?”. The government is being urged to develop ways for income drawdown to be made widely available through company pension schemes to reduce the risk of savers investing in unsuitable or expensive products.
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Financial Times:” Bankruptcy looms for tax scheme investors”.
Investors in tax arrangements that are the focus of a government crackdown face potential financial ruin, advisers warned, as their clients are landed with tax demands well in excess of their initial investments. Click here to go directly to the article
The Times:” Ministers back our call to end savings scandal”. As £122bn earns customers next to nothing, we unveil our new campaign
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The Times:” Tax-avoidance schemes of the stars targeted in crackdown”. Politicians are among the wealthy individuals who could face hefty demands for payment under new powers granted to HM Revenue & Customs to clamp down on tax avoidance.
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The Times:” How baby-boomers’ homes can keep the taxman at bay “. Taxes are soaring for asset-rich baby-boomers, but squeezing equity out of their homes could help them to lower the bill.
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The Times:” Singer Katie Melua admits being ‘clueless’ on tax affairs”. Katie Melua has confessed that she was financially ‘clueless and inexperienced’ when she invested £850,000 in a massive tax avoidance scheme alongside Sir Michael Caine and the musician Gary Barlow.
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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 Techlink 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 to 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.
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