Colum Eastwood Is Elected Leader Of The SDLP

LEAST PROSPEROUS COUNTRIES

125 Nigeria

126 Ethiopia

127 Congo, Rep.

128 Zimbabwe

129 Togo

130 Pakistan

131 Guinea

132 Liberia

133 Angola

134 Sudan

135 Yemen

136 Syria

137 Congo, Dem. Rep.

138 Burundi

139 Chad

140 Haiti

141 Afghanistan

142 Central African Republic 

20 MOST PROSPEROUS COUNTRIES

1 Norway

2 Switzerland

3 Denmark

4 New Zealand

5 Sweden

6 Canada

7 Australia

8 Netherlands

9 Finland

10 Ireland

11 United States

12 Iceland

13 Luxembourg

14 Germany

15 United Kingdom

16 Austria

17 Singapore

18 Belgium

19 Japan

20 Hong Kong

HMRC Win Big Tax Case

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has won a judgement that Rangers' use of Employee Benefit Trusts (EBTs) broke tax rules.

Rangers used the scheme from 2001 until 2010 to give millions of pounds of tax-free loans to players and other staff.

In what became known as the "big tax case", HMRC claimed these were salary payments and subject to tax.

HMRC lost its appeals at tax tribunals in 2012 and 2014. Now three judges at the Court of Session in Edinburgh have upheld their appeal.

The appeal was heard by Lord Carloway, sitting with Lord Menzies and Lord Drummond Young.

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John Kaisich 11%
Ted Cruz 9%

Global Top Ten Tax Havens

10. Dubai / UAE

9. Bahrain

8. Germany

7. Lebanon

6. Luxembourg

5. Cayman

4. Singapore

3. USA

2. Hong Kong

1. Switzerland

Majority Vote For Same Sex Marriage

A majority of Stormont assembly members have for the first time voted to legalise same-sex marriage in the Six Counties , but a voting mechanism triggered by the Democratic Unionists means the law change will not happen.

The vote is the fifth attempt to make gay marriage legal in the Six Counties.