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Business Secretary Vince Cable is to propose making the people who ran failed companies personally liable for the firm’s debts as part of an overhaul of company rules.

The taxman is losing 60pc of appeals against its VAT decisions because it is under Treasury pressure to take a more aggressive line in tax collection, lawyers claim.

The International Monetary Fund has raised its forecast for UK growth this year in the face of sharp cuts to world, US, eurozone and emerging market predictions as it warned that “downside risks to global prospects still dominate”.

The opinionated businesswoman has hit the headlines again today saying that fat people give off wrong impression in the workplace and that she wouldn’t employ them as they look lazy.

Around 40,000 small businesses which use invoice and asset-based lending to raise finance have been given a new complaints service as the industry implements self-regulation.

One in five new rules proposed by Government departments last year were “not fit for purpose”, a red tape watchdog says.

Chancellor George Osborne is to set out where a further £11.5bn of government cuts will come from, when he lays out his Spending Review later.

The Isle of Man and Jersey have hit back at accusations that they facilitate tax evasion and avoidance ahead of next week’s G8 summit.

Move to count £35bn from quantitative easing against deficit ‘might have been influenced by presentational considerations’

Apple has lost a ruling by a US trade panel in a patent dispute with its rival Samsung.

One of the energy firms hoping to exploit the UK’s resources of shale gas says it may be sitting on significantly more gas than previously thought.

Online retailer expected to move hundreds of employees from Slough as it seeks to expand UK business

Jaguar Land Rover has outlined plans to invest £2.75bn over the coming year on the back of record sales and profits, driven by accelerating demand from China.

A former senior partner at accountancy giant KPMG has agreed to plead guilty to insider trading.

Ten of the 12 government-funded “Portas Pilot” towns have seen a fall in the number of occupied shop units.