Online banks 'get top marks
Online bank customers are increasingly enthusiastic about their method of banking, with 70% now rating the service as excellent or very good, according to an independent ...
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Transfer of Howard raises old concerns
The series of payments that eased the transfer of Tim Howard from the New York/New Jersey MetroStars to Old Trafford highlight two of the less palatable aspects of the fo...
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Glaxo hit by $5bn US tax demand
GlaxoSmithKline yesterday pledged to fight a $5bn (£2.8bn) tax demand slapped on it by the US authorities in a long-running dispute over profits made by the British ...
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Foreigners will be vetted to get NHS treatment
Patients who have foreign accents may be asked to show passports, visas, travel documents, payslips, bank records and council tax paybooks before getting free treatment o...
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Claim on cost derived from debt agency
The government failed yesterday to justify its claim that health tourism costs British taxpayers "hundreds of millions of pounds a year" when it emerged that its evidence...
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Our shame
A couple in their late eighties froze to death because their gas supply was cut off due to non-payment (Deaths prompt calls for law reviews, December 23) and the agencies...
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Treasury lifts tax on turkeys after boss is landed with ?6,000 bill for giving birds as gifts
Turkeys now have even more reason to dread Christmas after the Treasury announced yesterday that employers can hand out the birds as festive gifts to staff without fear o...
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Who is liable for the problems with my new kitchen?
Q I bought a kitchen at Magnet. I paid a total of approximately ?6,000 using two credit cards (?2500 and ?3000) and the balance on a bank debit card.
One of the items in...
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Card firms must sharpen up their act on loan binge
We all know that the British have a bit of a credit habit - a report to be released tomorrow will show we are the biggest card borrowers in Europe - and that it's a love-...
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This is a bungle, in anyone's language
In some cases, it does not take much to spot signs of terminal corporate illness. Take Parmalat, the absurd Italian conglomerate. On November 11, after the Italian press ...
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