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Oct 28, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Catherine McBride |Benjamin Naftalis |Eric Volkman
Enforcement agencies urge investment in compliance programs.
On October 10, 2024, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced plea agreements with TD Bank N.A. (TDBNA) and its parent company, TD Bank US Holding Company (TDBUSH, and together with TDBNA, the Bank) in connection with anti-money laundering (AML) program failures.
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Oct 12, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Catherine McBride
BOOK REVIEW Pax economica: Left-wing visions of a free trade world By Marc-William Palen. Princeton University Press. 2024. pp. 328. £30.00 (hbk). ISBN: 978-0691199320. £21.00 (ebk). ISBN: 978-0691205137 First published: 12 October 2024 No abstract is available for this article.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Catherine McBride
Sir Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner are overhauling the planning system to build 1.5 million new homes Credit: Darren Staples/Getty Images Europe The Labour Party’s plan to overhaul the national planning system so that the nation’s building companies can produce 1.5 million new homes sounds like a great idea. Not only will it provide much-needed accommodation, but it will also increase economic growth. Building houses and infrastructure will employ skilled tradesmen and labourers, as well as...
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
thinkscotland.org | Catherine McBride |Hamish Gobson |Christine Padgham |Regina Erich
THE UK’S INCREDIBLY SUCCESSFUL independent education sector is one of the only industries in the UK that is truly a free market. That doesn’t mean it isn’t regulated by inspectorates, just that there are no consumption taxes on independent school fees. Value Added Tax was introduced in the UK when we joined the European Economic Community in 1973, replacing the old Purchase Tax. One of the fifteen market sectors exempt from VAT is education and vocational training.
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May 31, 2024 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Catherine McBride
The TaxPayers' Alliance estimates Labour's tax would force 26pc of pupils to leave private schools Credit: Labour Party In comedy and tragedy, timing is everything.
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May 14, 2024 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Catherine McBride
Many people were surprised by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s remarks last week, when he welcomed the Bank of England’s decision to keep interest rates on hold at 5.25pc. But was this really such a contrarian idea? Lower interest rates would have relieved the pressure on the 1.5 million people with mortgages to roll over this year as well as helped the many businesses struggling with current interest rates.
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Apr 19, 2024 | 
thinkscotland.org | Catherine McBride |Christine Padgham |Regina Erich |Jill Stephenson
FOR THOSE who don’t know her, Liz Webster is a keyboard warrior on behalf of the unofficial rejoin movement. She is, if anything prolific, but what she pumps out is routinely garbage, often using badly worded and exaggerated media headlines that are soon destroyed when they meet with the facts. Webster claims to be a farmer, although in 2019 she ran a recruitment agency placing nannies and household staff with families.
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Mar 3, 2024 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Catherine McBride
Growing the UK economy is incredibly important. Our GDP per capita has been flat-lining since the fourth quarter of 2021 with no obvious respite in sight. Increasing GDP per capita and improving living standards for the population should be the aim of the Chancellor’s Budget on Wednesday. Last Tuesday, the Growth Commission published its recommendation for the Chancellor, The Spring Growth Budget.
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Jan 24, 2024 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Catherine McBride
Britain needs to become a country where millionaires want to live, not one that they want to leave. The Chancellor must improve productivity to achieve this and crucially needs to get experienced workers back into the workforce and encourage them to build up capital. People between 50 and retirement age are usually at peak earning power with the lowest expenses: their mortgages have been paid off, their children have left home and they have acquired most of the large material goods they need.
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Nov 8, 2023 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Catherine McBride
In the second quarter of 2023, only 1.3pc of mortgages were in arrears and only 0.04pc had been repossessed. In the first quarter of 2009, new possessions were ten times this level. But the statistic I find most interesting in the FCA data is the absolute number of mortgages. In the first quarter of 2008, there were more than 15m mortgages in the UK for a population of 61.5 million people.
