Alternatively, those with large savings can consider an offset mortgage which links savings to home loans.

This can be done by overpaying or using an offset mortgage with a linked savings account.

Buy-to-let investors are still able to offset their mortgage interest against income, thus reducing their net tax.

Unlike most owner-occupiers, buyto-let borrowers qualify for interestonly deals and can offset mortgage interest against tax.

Some offset mortgage accounts have a linked savings account that pays nothing, but these are unlikely to be affected by the new rules.

That's because we think an increase in lending would in itself offset the risk from reducing capital requirements on new lending.

Drivers have already been given ear protectors to offset the risk of damage.

It would be reasonable to penalise banks that did not comply by requiring they offset the risk by holding more capital.

By investing regular premiums, you offset the risk of timing the market, a strategy only for high-risk traders.

Therefore, some exposure to oil looks a good way to diversify an investment portfolio and offset the risk of more expensive energy hurting most forms of economic activity.

A 2.8 per cent rise in tax revenues was not enough to offset the increase in spending.

The dip came because the labour force shrank by 695,000, which more than offset an increase in household employment of 275,000.

Who has had to borrow more to offset the increase in eurozone savings?

Large-scale adaptive design could completely offset this increase, however.

On balance, banks should do better, too, with margin improvements more than offsetting any increase in bad loans.

The £4.5 billion of net inflows during the period, compared with £4.4 billion a year earlier, helped the business to offset the investment hit it took from the turmoil.

An additional 200 million of annual cost cuts, at a cost of 400 million, would also offset the investment in growth areas.

The service will also identify any funding or grants that can be used to offset the investment in training.

Savings on the cost of fossil fuels in conventional technologies could completely offset the investment in renewable energy technologies and energy efficiency by as early as 2040.

You would need savings of at least 10,000 to make first direct's offset rate preferable to its standard one, for example.

However, although offset rates are now lower than they've ever been, they are still higher than the rates offered on standard mortgages.

Lenders are responding with more competitive offset rates.

Nevertheless, offset rates are higher than standard mortgage rates.

This offset the benefit of continued persistent strong spending by customers involved in infrastructure-related projects.

A further rise could offset the benefit of lower interest rates and further hold back the economy.

Prices will then fall 10% in 2011 as public-sector job losses and a continued drought in mortgage lending offset the benefit of low interest rates, it predicts.

However, they cautioned against drinking to protect the brain, saying that a rise in blood pressure could offset any benefit.

Inflation, which at the last count was running at 2.9 per cent, has more than offset the benefit of wages growth, which has been running at only 2.1 per cent.

Green offenders can give money from their salaries to offset the damage.

With reasonable frequency, beauty companies say they've invented a magic potion to offset the damage caused by highlights.

He proposes to offset any damage to biodiversity while ensuring that desperately needed housing can be built.

Even the pound's decline against the dollar over the past 12 months, which will help to boost bonuses in sterling terms, won't be enough to offset the damage.

A reduction in claims from motorists and households has offset the impact of business interruption claims.

It wouldn't be sufficient to offset the impact of the new tax.

In the right mood and given the right incentives, it can easily offset the impact of shrinking public spending.

Strong net new sales to private investors were not enough to offset the impact of redemptions by institutional investors - mostly pension funds and insurance companies.

These provide suggestions for schemes that can help you to offset your impact.

First-quarter sales hit 2.36 billion as growth in emerging markets offset weakness elsewhere.

That offset weakness elsewhere and overall revenues were 5 per cent ahead on the same quarter a year earlier.

Such returns proved to be the brightest spot in otherwise in-line interims and helped to offset weakness in underwriting and broking.

The company said that its strength in insurance and travel would offset weakness in its money portfolio, but analysts have questioned whether the travel business will hold up.

Growth in service revenues partially offset weakness in industrial product sales.

Gilts settled largely unchanged as weaker share prices offset an earlier hit from a disappointing auction of benchmark ten-year gilts.

Price growth remained at a three-year low last month as a slowdown in restaurant and hotel prices offset a rise in grocery bills.

Revenues were broadly flat at $2.1 billion, as lower silver prices offset higher production and gold prices were roughly flat.

The higher unit prices offset the 100 bonus over a year.

Falling fuel prices offset increases in the cost of food, utilities and clothing.