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TONY HETHERINGTON: HM Revenue & Customs hat mir 14.000 £ Sparzinsen besteuert, die nicht mir gehörten

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Tony Hetherington ist der Spitzenermittler von Financial Mail on Sunday, der sich für Leserengagements einsetzt, die Wahrheit hinter verschlossenen Türen enthüllt und Siege für diejenigen erringt, die nicht aufkommen müssen. Nachfolgend erfahren Sie, wie Sie ihn kontaktieren können.

PT schreibt: HM Revenue & Customs teilte mir mit, dass ich in den Jahren 2022–2023 zu wenig Steuern gezahlt habe, weil ich über 14.000 £ an unversteuerten Zinsen auf Ersparnisse erhalten hatte. Die Sparzahl wurde der HMRC von National Savings übermittelt.

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POLITICO Europe’s most-read stories of 2023 – POLITICO

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Well, here we are folks, at the end of another turbulent year.

When we put this list together at the end of 2022, its contents largely covered something many of us thought we would not see again in our lifetime: a major war in Europe. Now, we are grappling with two wars in our immediate neighborhood, as the slaughter drags on in Ukraine, and conflict rages between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.

In Ukraine, the long-awaited counteroffensive against Russia, which

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Putin rakes in extra €1B for his war chest via Bulgaria sanctions loophole – POLITICO

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BRUSSELS — The Kremlin raked in an extra €1 billion for its war effort this year after Russia’s largest private oil firm exploited loopholes in EU sanctions rules — with help from Bulgaria.

Taking advantage of a unique exemption to the EU’s Russian oil ban, Bulgaria allowed millions of barrels of Russian oil to reach a local Russian-owned refinery, which then exported various refined fuels abroad including to EU countries, according to an investigation by the NGO Global Witness, the

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With a return of Trump looming, Ukrainians ramp up homegrown arms industry – POLITICO

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KYIV — Ukraine’s long-range Beaver drones seem to be making successful kamikaze strikes in the heart of Moscow, but Serhiy Prytula is coy about how much he knows.

“We are not sure whether we are involved in this,” he says with a charming but inscrutable smile, when asked about these mysterious new weapons.   

Prytula rose to fame — just like President Volodymyr Zelenskyy — as an actor, TV star and comedian, but is now best known for his contribution to

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Don’t throw a spotlight on Northern Ireland stalemate, Sunak urged – POLITICO

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DUBLIN – Rishi Sunak should postpone plans for an international investment conference in Northern Ireland because it will cast a counterproductive spotlight on its political paralysis, the U.K. prime minister has been warned.

Sunak announced plans for the September 12-13 conference following his Windsor Framework agreement with the European Union. That painstakingly negotiated compromise was designed to minimize post-Brexit restrictions on British goods movements into Northern Ireland and reinforce the U.K. region’s unique access to the EU single market, a

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UK set to delay post-Brexit border food checks amid inflation worries – POLITICO

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LONDON — The U.K. is set to once again delay the implementation of post-Brexit border checks for EU imports amid concerns the new regime will further stoke inflation.

Britain was planning to roll out the first stage of the new border model from October, with further stages implemented throughout 2024 that would see more checks on food and animal products entering the country.

The Financial Times first reported the fresh delay, the fifth time these post-Brexit border checks have been

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€1.8B worth of fraud in EU in 2022, watchdog says – POLITICO

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BRUSSELS — The EU’s anti-fraud watchdog found irregularities worth €1.77 billion in 2022 as the number of cases it investigated increased, it said in a report published Thursday.

OLAF, which monitors the abuse of EU funds, said there were 12,455 cases reported by authorities last year, a 7 percent increase from 2021.

The majority of these, 11,316 ― an all-time high — were not criminal but concerned irregularities such as poor management, sloppy record-keeping or insufficient financial controls. It represented

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China secretly sends enough gear to Russia to equip an army – POLITICO

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The pictures posted on the Chinese company’s website show a tall, Caucasian man with a crew cut and flattened nose inspecting body armor at its factory.

“This spring, one of our customers came to our company to confirm the style and quantity of bulletproof vests, and carefully tested the quality of our vests,” Shanghai H Win, a manufacturer of military-grade protective gear, proudly reported on its website in March.

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How US-made sniper ammunition ends up in Russian rifles – POLITICO

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As gear reviews go, it was a glowing one: In a 60-second video clip posted on Telegram, a masked sniper sporting the death’s-head insignia of the Wagner mercenary army sings the praises of the Russian-made Orsis T-5000 rifle.

“The equipment comes very well recommended,” the soldier, pictured in the charred interior of a building, tells a war reporter from the Zvezda TV channel run by the Russian Ministry of

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Londons andere Royals, die „Pearlies“, Keep Alive Cockney Customs

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Die Könige und Königinnen der weniger bekannten Königsfamilie von London versammelten sich an einem Sonntagnachmittag vor einer Kirche in Covent Garden, gekleidet in ihre glitzernde Pracht.

Aber ihre bevorzugten Juwelen waren keine Diamanten oder Rubine. Es waren Knöpfe aus Perlmutt, die ihre pechschwarzen Anzüge und Hüte mit komplizierten Mustern bedeckten, die von Hand zu kunstvollen Mustern genäht wurden, die im Sonnenlicht glitzern.

Dies sind die Pearly Kings und Queens of London – Bewahrer einer Tradition, die in der viktorianischen Ära

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