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PROFITS at life and pensions group Aegon UK fell 23 per cent in the first quarter of this year, figures revealed yesterday.

A DECREASE in City bonuses has hit the top-end property sector, an update from luxury property firm Savills has revealed.

When it is time to pay taxes, nothing hurts more than paying money and not understanding what it's for. Now you can get free information about tax deductions, tax cuts and tax relief. Days of feeling cheated with taxes are over. You may even meet the criteria to be tax exempt! This article is going to explain the contents that a tax information website should contain.

This is one of the great advantages of running a day care center from your home space. It gives you a much needed buffer from taxes. Knowledge is power or in this case, knowledge is money. Spending a little time calculating during tax season can give you many happy returns and relief from future problems. Just remember to save all those receipts!

After a series of stumbles, the maker of colorful plastic clogs gets back on its feet.

Are you a business owner who has been ignoring those letters from the IRS? Are you being threatened with the IRS closing down your business because of being unable to pay your 941 payroll taxes?

Innocent spouse relief is a program that allows you to be relieved of the joint tax debt and any penalties and interest accrued on that debt because of your ex. It is a way to get out of paying for that bad tax decision that your former spouse made.

If you owe the IRS money you should not sit back and assume that they are not going to come after you. Once they know that you owe back tax debt, the IRS is going to be very aggressive in their attempts to collect what you owe.

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Friday's session are Clear Channel Communications Inc., Huntsman Corp., and Windstream Communications Corp.

At Forrester's Marketing Forum, we held a session with three pairs of agencies and clients that have used personas very effectively. When QVC and Critical Mass redesigned the QVC Web site to create a community for frequent television shoppers, personas helped them choose and prioritize the right features to build. Personas also helped Enlighten and Thornburg mortgage create a site with specific features for all of their personas that tripled the visits to important sections and increased repeat visits and time spent on the site. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and WHITTMANHART used personas to create two interactive fundraising sites to give frequent donors access to better tools and keep them more engaged with the children of the hospital.