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, December 22, 2014
ARTICLES
FINANCIAL TIMES
Financial Times:” Property scheme investors face tax demands “. Relief will be repayable under HMRC clampdown Click
Times: “Charity tax reliefs rise to £1.1bn”. Taxpayer claims on giving almost double in past decade Click here to go directly to the article
Financial Times:” A year of change for your money”. The general election looms large over prospects for wealth Click
THE TIMES
The Times:” Second homes abroad are back in fashion”. Record low mortgage rates, favourable exchange rates and a more stable outlook for the UK economy are tempting more Britons back into the overseas property market
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The Times:” Heat turned up on frozen overseas pensions”. Lobby groups call for end to the block on annual rises for retired expats
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The Times:” Nervy investors turn to comfort of gold”. The price of gold, considered a safe haven investment, has rebounded
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THE TELEGRAPH
The Telegraph:” Why you may have been paying the wrong National Insurance for years “. Britain’s antiquated NI system is failing and thousands may have paid too much
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The Telegraph:” Investec offers exclusive 2.3pc ‘tracker’ savings bond”. A new three-year bond will pay 1pc above Bank Rate, with a minimum guaranteed rate of 2.3pc. But how likely is it that interest rates will rise?
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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 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.
QUICK LINKS
FINANCIAL TIMES, TIMES + SUNDAY TIMES, TELEGRAPH + SUNDAY TELEGRAPH, GUARDIAN + GUARDIAN WEEKLY +MONEY OBSERVER + OBSERVER, INDEPENDENT + INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY, SCOTSMAN + SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY +EDINBURGH EVENING NEWS, DAILY MAIL + MAIL ON SUNDAY + (LONDON) EVENING STANDARD + THIS IS MONEY.
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