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• Postal strike is no excuse for filing a late tax return Revenue & Customs will not waive its self-assessment deadline despite the strike delays
  

  Published 29th Oct 2009

  HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is urging taxpayers who had been planning to submit their tax return by post to deliver it by hand to their nearest tax office to ensure it arrives on time

• UK's mortgage market finally begins to thaw
  

  Published 28th Oct 2009

  Britain's mortgage financing market appears to be thawing

• Foreign investors eye up repossessed UK homes
  

  Published 28th Oct 2009

  Investors from overseas are eyeing up repossessed homes in the UK, with German and French buyers at the head of the queue, according to data from property website PropertyEarth

• They tarnished my good name: The Revenue and NatWest blame each other for freezing man's bank accounts
  

  Published 26th Oct 2009

  Filing his first tax return on time has left Gary Humphreys feeling like a criminal

• Northern Rock woos the bonus brigade
  

  Published 25th Oct 2009

  Northern Rock, the taxpayer-owned lender, has become the first choice for bonus-rich City bankers, as other customers face a continued squeeze on borrowing

• Tighter controls on home loans mean more pain for borrowers
  

  Published 24th Oct 2009

  Borrowers have been warned that mortgage fees could soar after the City regulator called this week for lenders to assess income and spending in greater detail before approving loans

• Punch to cut value of estate by £600m
  

  Published 11th Oct 2009

  Punch Taverns, the pubs landlord, is expected to slash the value of its estate by more than £600m when it unveils its annual results this week