Wednesday 22 May 2013
Greek railway workers and journalists joined a wave of strikes against austerity measures imposed to prevent the country defaulting on its debts.
Strikes kept island ferries in port for a second day, while rotting mounds of rubbish remained uncollected for the 17th day in the cities. Strikers include tax collectors and lawyers.
THE boss of the company in charge of providing security for the G8 summit in Fermanagh is to stand down – just months after he came under fire for G4S botched handling of its Olympics Games contract.
MORTGAGE lenders are stepping up action to help up to 1.3 million interest-only customers who do not have enough cash to pay their loans back.
Business groups from each of the G8 countries have urged leaders to use next month's meeting in Fermanagh to clamp down on tax avoidance in member countries.
Vodafone has hit back over accusations of tax avoidance, insisting that it made an "absolutely huge" contribution to the UK Treasury, as the mobile giant unveiled a big slump in annual pre-tax profits.
The Bank of Ireland has partially backtracked on a steep rise in mortgage rates for customers who thought their repayments were fixed for life.
Apple "avoided" more than $1m (£650,000) in US taxes every hour last year, a senior Washington lawmaker said yesterday as the tech giant found itself the centre of the debate over loopholes in international tax laws.
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