Ebay's money transfer arm to launch credit card
PayPal, the money transfer division of the online auction site eBay, is to offer credit cards in Britain. The company which has more than 10 million British payment accou...
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The mum who dared to fight back
Gaylia Ashby has paid thousands of pounds in penalty charges on her credit card and current account after running into financial problems three years ago.
She was made r...
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Pensioners fail to claim benefits
Up to 2 million pensioners are missing out on council tax benefit, which could cut their bill by more than £500 a year, a charity said today.
Age Concern said counc...
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Cheques get the chop at Asda
The death of the cheque came a step closer yesterday, with the announcement that supermarket Asda is to stop accepting them as payment in some of its branches.
The reta...
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At last, holiday insurance that dares to take on the risk of terrorism
A travel insurance product without any of the usual exemptions for terror strikes or pre-existing health conditions has been launched this week to help families of Britis...
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Idealist hippie lawyer can't beat the taxman
For any other lawyer, a jail term would mean financial ruin. For Tony Serra the 10-month sentence he starts this weekend for 20 years of tax evasion will be little more t...
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Rail firm's telesales are not the ticket
I tried to book a train ticket by phone through First Great Western. Neither my credit card nor debit card matched what the telesales operator had on the screen, so she c...
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City bonus brigade face £100m tax clawback
Some of the City's most highly paid bankers and traders face an unpaid tax bill of more than £100m following last week's Budget.
Gordon Brown's latest measures to ...
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Brown taunts the Tories: we invest, you cut taxes
Prime minister in waiting Gordon Brown used his 10th budget yesterday to sharpen the political battle lines with David Cameron's Conservatives, by unveiling a package of ...
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No council tax rebate but prospect of free bus travel
Groups representing the elderly criticised what they claimed was an "Ebenezer Scrooge budget" for Britain's 11 million pensioners, at a time of fast-rising energy and cou...
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