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Fashion companies like Urban Outfitters have advertised for nine-month unpaid internships. It is believed that this has become certain kind of abuse for the interns. As a result, Revenue and Customs is planning to crackdown such unpaid intern scheme in breach of minimum wage laws.
HMRC has sent a 12-person taskforce to make unannounced inspections of businesses where interns are working as employers rather than just shadowing staff. The special 12-person “dynamic response” unit will have the authority to question managers and sift through accounts until the members are satisfied that no abuse is going on.

Crab bucket usually has no top lid at all. If there was only one crab in the bucket, it would certainly escape. However, when there is more than one crab in the bucket, if one tries to crawl out, the other crabs would pull it back down so that it would share the same fate as the rest of them.
In the business world, similar phenomenon exists, reflecting negativity and low level of business ethics among different organizations. It is called as the Crab Bucket Syndrome, or Crab Syndrome. It happens when the members within an organization are short-sighted and only focus on their own benefits. If one person within the organization tries to improve himself, others will attempt to drag him back down to the same level with them.
So, if you are looking to achieve success in your life, you will need to ignore the other “crabs”.

The winner’s curse refers to a phenomenon akin to a Pyrrhic victory that occurs in common value auctions with incomplete information. In such an auction, the winner will tend to make an overpayment for the auctioned asset.
They might be paying an amount of money that exceed the value of the asset or obtain a worse than expected net gain due to wrong anticipation of the asset value.
According to the revenue equivalence theorem, winner’s curse during biddings should never occur.

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In a paper reporting early findings, the Treasury announced that the integration of the operation of income tax and NI contributions could result in about 3 million people paying more in contributions, while up to 9 million paying less.
According to the Treasury, it is said that any reform of NI contributions to an annual, cumulative and aggregated basis to match that of the income tax structure would possibly lead to a significant number of individuals ending up with a different NI contribution liability. It is found that some might find their contributions record affected. The simplification of income tax and national insurance will result in a lower entitlement to state pension and other benefits, even though people could compensate via paying voluntary NI contributions.
The ones that would be likely to pay more NI are the ones who work in more than one job simultaneously and some of the people with flucturting earnings.
The Treasury declare that it would proceed the integrating the two tax systems with great caution, and it would take two parliaments to deliver.

In the Britain, millions of potential first-time buyers have been priced out of home ownership. As a result, they need to look into the rental market for a cheaper alternative. However, with growing number of tenants fighting for nice place to stay at bargain rates, the available vacancy are gradually failing to meet the soaring demand, which push the rent costs nowadays increase drmatically.
According to a wealth of recent data, it is shown that the rental costs has been pushed to hit all-time highs, which is even higher than the typical mortgage. As a result, rental properties becoming increasingly unaffordable.

The London-listed airline–EasyJet just confirmed that the company is going to pay a dividend for the very first time. With a special dividend of £150m and an ordinary dividend of 10.5p per share, the total pay-out is estimated to be about £195m.
The budget airline also said that it is following the competitor–Ryanair to break with one of the core principles of budegt airlines as it starts a trial of allocating seats on some of its routes.