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The UK tax system meant that sales to company car fleets comprised a larger proportion of the overall market-especially for middle-weight saloons-than elsewhere in Europe: the Ford Cortina Mk II had been replaced by the Ford Cortina Mk III in 1970, but in the eyes of the all important company car fleet managers the newer Cortina never quite matched the earlier car for reliability, notably in respect of problems with its cable clutch and with camshaft wear in the 1. 6 and 2. 0 litre ohc units.
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Following Gibraltar's signing of 12 additional Tax Information Exchange Agreements ( TIEAs ), as of October 2009, with jurisdictions including the UK, US and Germany, to sum 13, Gibraltar is currently listed in the OECD " white list ", and is considered a jurisdiction that has substantially implemented the tax standard.
* Individual Savings Account, a financial account for investment in the UK with special tax rules
In many countries, such as the US and the UK, the tax law provides that the interest on this cash value is not taxable under certain circumstances.
In addition, we are signing today a Double Taxation Convention which will bring benefits to British business in Libya and Libyan investors in the UK – benefits in terms of certainty, clarity and transparency and reducing tax compliance burdens.
The film was particularly unsuccessful in the UK, where, unwilling to tour since 1975 because of their tax exile status, Led Zeppelin faced an uphill battle to recapture the public's affection.
Examples of refundable tax credits include the earned income tax credit and the additional child tax credit in the U. S., and working tax credits and child tax credits in the UK.
The UK tax year still starts on 6 April which is 25 March + 12 days, eleven for the conversion from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar plus a dropped leap day in 1800 not in 1900.
However, this distinction does not apply in other jurisdictions ; for example, if using this terminology UK inheritance tax would be an estate tax.
* BBC 7 November 2009 Lukewarm reaction to UK tax plan
In some countries or regions such as the UK, Australia or Hong Kong, the laundry expenses of working-uniform or clothing can be partially deducted or rebated from the personal income tax, if the organization for which the person works does not have a laundry department or an outsourced commercial laundry.
In many countries, such as the USA, the UK and Australia, most private defined benefit plans are funded, because governments there provide tax incentives to funded plans ( in Australia they are mandatory ).
The film was particularly unsuccessful in the UK, where the band had not performed live for over two years as a result of being on tax exile.
Across his two periods in office, Wilson presided over significant increases in the overall tax burden in the UK.
In the UK and some other European countries the profit from spread betting is free from tax.
The UK and some other European countries tax authorities designate financial spread betting as gambling and not investing, meaning it is free from capital gains tax and stamp tax, despite the fact that its regulated as a financial product by the Financial Services Authority in the UK.
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Personal Emergency Response Systems ( PERS ), or Telecare ( UK term ), are a particular sort of assistive technology that use electronic sensors connected to an alarm system to help caregivers manage risk and help vulnerable people stay independent at home longer.
NTSC is currently only used with system M, even though there were experiments with NTSC-A ( 405 line ) and NTSC-I ( 625 line ) in the UK.
Nevertheless, it should be noted that the spectrum is broad in the EU, with the UK coming closest to the US system ( Reifner et al., 2003 ; Gerhardt, 2009 ; Frade, 2010 ).
Former NSA employee Margaret Newsham claims that she worked on the configuration and installation of software that makes up the ECHELON system while employed at Lockheed Martin, for whom she worked from 1974 to 1984 in Sunnyvale, California, US, and in Menwith Hill, England, UK.
Another form of e-commerce was the airline reservation system typified by Sabre in the USA and Travicom in the UK.
* Electronic Staff Record, a human resources and payroll system of the UK National Health Service
The UK National Health Service uses a similar system with categories labeled A, B, C, and D. The above Levels are only appropriate for treatment or interventions ; different types of research are required for assessing diagnostic accuracy or natural history and prognosis, and hence different " levels " are required.
In July 1939 Mountbatten was granted a patent ( UK Number 508, 956 ) for a system for maintaining a warship in a fixed position relative to another ship.
Changes to the UK system have been proposed, and alternatives were examined by the Jenkins Commission in the late 1990s.
According to their website, Ceres Power, a UK SOFC fuel cell manufacturer, has developed a method of reducing the operating temperature of their SOFC system to 500-600 degrees Celsius.
In economics, Holt's tenure began with the phasing in of Australia's new system of decimal currency, launched on 14 February 1966, and it was marked by a major realignment of commercial and military ties away from the UK and towards the US and Asia.
The Isle of Man is included within the UK telephone numbering system, and is accessed externally via UK area codes, rather than by its own country calling code.
The Isle of Man adopted postcodes in 1993 using the prefix IM to fit in with the already established UK postcode system.
In August 2009 the UK and US based company EditShare acquired Gee Broadcast and the Lightworks editing platform from, along with their video server system GeeVS.
The loyalty card market in the UK is one of the most significant in the world, with most major chains operating some form of reward system.
Money Laundering Regulations are designed to protect the UK financial system.
The most common of these is the winner-takes-all ( or " first-past-the-post ") system common in some countries of the former British empire, such as the United States, the UK, Canada and India.
The UK category system does, however, class such degrees as Information technology and Game design as ' computer science ', somewhat inflating the actual figure.
The Palace is one of the centres of political life in the United Kingdom ; " Westminster " has become a metonym for the UK Parliament, and the Westminster system of government has taken its name after it.
The agreement formally arranged for the Polaris missile system to be provided to the UK to maintain its independent nuclear deterrent.
The agreement was amended in 1982 to provide the Trident missile system to the UK.
Before the introduction of postage stamps, mail in the UK was paid for by the recipient, a system that was associated with an irresolvable problem: the costs of delivering mail were not recoverable by the postal service when recipients were unable or unwilling to pay for delivered items, and senders had no incentive to restrict the number, size, or weight of items sent, whether or not they would ultimately be paid for.
Rowland Hill and the postal reforms he introduced to the UK postal system are commemorated on several postage issues of the United Kingdom.
Clifford Cocks, an English mathematician working for the UK intelligence agency GCHQ, described an equivalent system in an internal document in 1973, but given the relatively expensive computers needed to implement it at the time, it was mostly considered a curiosity and, as far as is publicly known, was never deployed.
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These numbers are set up by a company offering low charge calls in the UK, these numbers are meant to be used as a sort of operator that you go through in order to qualify for these cheap calls.
In Britain the machines were most often referred to as " duplicators ", though the predominance of Gestetner and Roneo in the UK market meant that some people referred to the machine by one of those two manufacturers ' names.
The spin-off idea was cancelled after Five pulled out of the deal, which meant that the show could potentially screen on a rival UK channel, so Five requested that the new show developed as a stand-alone series and not feed off a series they own a stake in.
Since " Swing the Mood " was still on the sales charts going into 1990, it meant that Haley's " Rock Around the Clock ", in one way or another, appeared on UK or US sales charts in five consecutive decades.
* In 2003, Alastair Campbell ( who was Director of Communications and Strategy from 1997-2003 for the UK PM ) in his memoirs The Blair Years: The Alastair Campbell Diaries alleged that two bugs were discovered in the hotel room meant for visiting British PM Tony Blair planted by Indian intelligence agencies. The alleged bug discovery was at a hotel during PM Tony Blair's official visit to New Delhi in 2001.
However, ratings were low, perhaps exacerbated by the satellite sharing that meant UK fans were unable to receive the Sci Fi Channel at the times when the show was being broadcast.
However, a " proof of concept " model of a differential analyser which made extensive use of Meccano parts was built at Manchester University, UK, in 1934, by Douglas Hartree and Arthur Porter: use of Meccano meant that the machine was cheap to build, and it proved " accurate enough for the solution of many scientific problems ".
The buzz created by the record in the UK meant their first show in London at the Electric Ballroom, London, was packed in anticipation, with many UK pop stars such as Green Gartside from Scritti Politti, Joe Jackson, and others in attendance.
Increasing pressure on land use in the UK throughout the 20th century meant that protection of closed trackbeds as in larger countries ( such as the US Rail Bank scheme which holds former railway land for possible future use ) was not practical.
The UK gained eight, which meant that going into the final juror, the UK needed five points or more to win over either country.
The UK's victory this year meant that the contest would take place in the UK the following year-the seventh time the country had hosted the event ( still a record ), which was hosted in Harrogate at a later than usual date, 24 April.
Churchill's demand to ' collar the lot ' meant that around 27, 000 people ended up being interned in the UK.
The 1999 Scottish devolution has meant the Scottish Office's powers were divided, with most transferred to the Scottish Executive or to other UK Government departments, leaving only a limited role for the Scotland Office.
The popularity of the English Heritage London blue plaques scheme has meant that similar schemes have been set up in other towns in the UK and abroad.
His ignominious departure from UK engineering circles meant that the name ' Buchanan ' had to be deleted from the company name in 1923 when the firm became CS Meik and Halcrow ( William Halcrow had been a partner in the firm from the previous year and went on to take a more controlling interest in what became the Halcrow Group ).
Through the network of PET users in the UK they made contact with Graham Heggie in Coventry and Graham's knowledge of electronics meant that they quickly arrived at the idea of a shift register connected to the tape cassette port.
The 1992 and 1993 editions of Macmillan's The Student Book: The Indispensable Applicant's Guide to UK Colleges, Polytechnics and Universities advised potential University of Ulster students that " Tiocfaioh ar la " was a common greeting on campus and meant " pleased to meet you ".
The country also went without tax relief until the 21st March 2012 when the British government changed its mind on tax relief for UK developers, which without, meant most of the talented development within the UK may move overseas for more profit, along with parents of certain video game developers which would pay for having games developed in the UK.
Their first game was at home to Airbus UK Broughton FC, but a schedule clash meant that the club were required to play two games on 3 December 2011, one against Airbus, and the other against Brentford FC in the second round of the FA Cup.
Which in practice meant that it administered the UK's large scale facilities for materials and biomolecular research, laser and space science and alternative energy exploration on behalf of the government, the other UK research funding bodies, universities, and corporate research and development.
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