King of Mandopop Jay Chou( pic) was recently crowned the top earner among Chinese artistes, having

A minister has left the door open to a Budget tax raid on high earners after refusing six times to

The BBC has cut ￡2 million from the pay bill for its top presenters as its highest earners either

Huw Edwards is the highest-earning star to receive a pay rise in this year’s BBC salary list, as the total wage bill for top talent rose to a six-year high. The news anchor rose from sixth place to fourth, to a salary of ￡435, 000-￡439, 000.... In 2017, he disclosed that his salary as political correspondent was ￡60, 000.... The evasion rate is now 10.31 per cent, up from 9.38 per cent. The BBC blamed this on the cost of living crisis and a long-term shift in viewing habits towards rival strea

The 12 highest earning groups will see their income drop between now and 2025-26. Some of those groups will see their income drop by almost four per cent.... This of course comes on top of a decade of historically feeble increases in real incomes.“ The gap between what we might have expected on the basis of pre-financial crisis trends and what is actually happening is staggering.... He told us he’d deliver an age of optimism....

A shake-up of university finance will punish poorer students while top-earning graduates pay less, ministers are being warned – as a call to bring back maintenance grants is rejected. The long-delayed response to a review ordered by Theresa May also throws out a recommendation to slash annual tuition fees from ￡9, 250 to ￡7, 500, made because of fears that high debt deters disadvantaged teenagers. Instead, fees will be frozen, while graduates will feel the pain of a cut in the threshold to start

A copy of a fake document used in an M fund fraud case is seen in this partially modified image.... Individuals who fall for the scam can lose huge sums in so-called" processing fees" to access the elusive money.... Many of the victims have been business people including high-ranking employees at big companies....

A shake-up of university finance will punish poorer students while top-earning graduates pay less, ministers are being warned – as a call to bring back maintenance grants is rejected. The long-delayed response to a review ordered by Theresa May also throws out a recommendation to slash annual tuition fees from ￡9, 250 to ￡7, 500, made because of fears that high debt deters disadvantaged teenagers. Instead, fees will be frozen, while graduates will feel the pain of a cut in the threshold to start

part of a decade pushing for higher taxes on top earners and will likely do so again this year

less than a fifth of top earners. Female bankers made up on average just 15.5% of the top quarter