From next month, internet shoppers in the United Kingdom will no longer have to pay customs duty on purchases made from non-European Union websites with a value of under £105.
Currently customs duties are payable on goods bought online from non-EU countries worth £18 or more. But from December 1, a new £105 (€150) limit will [...]

An offshore bank account can be described as: “a bank account maintained by an individual or business in a bank in any country of which they are not normally a resident”. Basically what this long phrase means is that if you are a British resident and you open a bank account in somewhere like Spain [...]

Ask most people how they would structure a new business and the chances are that they will talk about starting a company. That’s fine and works a lot of the time but usually only in conjunction with a shareholder agreement.
One of the oldest forms of business structure is the Partnership – and this is often [...]

Internet fraudsters are exploiting the banking meltdown by attempting to trick users into handing over details of their bank accounts.
These crooks - called Phishers - set up false websites which look like the websites of real banks and send out emails trying to get people to log on to these sites and by so doing [...]

What can you think when you realise that the chairman of the International Business Advisory Council - charged with safeguarding London’s pre-eminence as a business centre - is about to move his own HQ to Ireland?
Such is the position of Sir Martin Sorrell, head of advertising conglomerate WPP, who announced last week that he was [...]

In the early hours of what was a sunny Sunday morning (how unlike today) I drove from Shropshire to London to appear on a London Weekend Television programme debating the forthcoming referendum on giving Scotland and Wales devolved governments.
It was the morning after the funeral of Princess Diana and all along the route into London [...]

Barbie has been an important part of the toy fashion doll market for nearly fifty years, and has been the subject of numerous controversies and lawsuits, often involving parody of the doll and her lifestyle. In recent years, Barbie has faced increasing competition from the Bratz range of dolls.
The doll was the brain child of [...]