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British Museum chair George Osborne announces that the museum has begun the process of recovering 2,000 stolen artifacts.
2023-08-26

In India, a new income tax law comes into effect. It is a significant change on the old 1961 statute, and contains a controversial "angel tax" provision seeking to capture some of the income entering the country from foreign investors funding India's start-ups.
2023-04-1

The Smith Commission, established by UK Prime Minister David Cameron to look at enhanced devolution for Scotland following the independence referendum, publishes its report, recommending the Scottish Parliament should be given the power to set income tax rates and bands.
2014-11-27

Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, says that the finance ministers and central bankers of the G7 have agreed there must be co-ordinated action against tax evaders.
2013-05-11

Chancellor George Osborne accuses ministers in Gordon Brown's government of attempting to manipulate interest rates during the recession.
2012-07-4

Chancellor George Osborne tells the Inquiry that suggestions of a deal between the Conservative Party and Rupert Murdoch are "complete nonsense".
2012-06-11

The "Daily Telegraph" publishes further details of taped conversations with Liberal Democrat MPs, which include comments that British Prime Minister David Cameron cannot be trusted and Chancellor George Osborne has "a capacity to get up one's nose".
2010-12-23

Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne hails the results as proof that the economy is going through a steady recovery, but opposition Labour Party leader Ed Miliband asserts that the recent spending review and budget cuts will harm economic performance.
2010-10-26

In the United Kingdom, Chancellor George Osborne outlines a Comprehensive Spending Review which will see the biggest spending cuts in decades, totalling £81bn, with welfare, local government and police particularly affected.
2010-10-20

George Osborne scraps Britain's financial regulator and grants new powers to the Bank of England.
2010-06-16