Notes 1-5
- 1. Income from trading activities
- 2. Operating expenses
- 3. Pension costs
- 4. Auditors' remuneration
- 5. Tax
4 Auditors' remuneration
Amounts paid to the company's auditors for statutory audit and other services were as follows:
| Group | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2007 £m |
2006 £m |
|
| Fees payable for the audit of the Group's annual accounts | 1.2 | 0.8 |
| Fees payable to the auditors and their associates for other services to the Group: | ||
| – The audit of the company's subsidiaries pursuant to legislation(1) | 15.8 | 10.8 |
| Total audit fees | 17.0 | 11.6 |
| – Other services pursuant to legislation (2) | 4.9 | 5.9 |
| – Other services relating to taxation | 0.4 | 0.2 |
| – Services relating to corporate finance transactions, including securitisations, entered into by the Group | 5.5 | 2.4 |
| – All other services | 3.4 | 2.6 |
| Total non-audit fees | 14.2 | 11.1 |
| Fees payable to the auditors and their associates in respect of pension schemes: | ||
| – Audit | 0.2 | 0.3 |
| Total | 31.4 | 23.0 |
Notes:
(1) Excluding fees paid in respect of ABN AMRO Holding B.V. which is audited by another firm.
(2) Includes fees for work relating to Section 404 of the US Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
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