The Property Owners Directory (POD) wants the government to cut the rate of VAT from 17.5% to 5% for all building repair and maintenance work in the UK, in an attempt to stamp out all rogue tradesmen. More »
Large construction companies Balfour Beatty, Carillion, and Kier, are among 112 building construction firms which are today accused by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) of conspiring to swindle taxpayers in a “bid-rigging” scandal worth hundreds of millions of pounds. More »
