Pension funds are handed £2.5m bill
Britain's hard-pressed company pension schemes were landed with a new bill yesterday when they were ordered to pay £2.5m between them to bail out workers at a firm w...
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Experts' cautious support for local income tax
Local income tax would be a "realistic option" as an alternative to council tax, a respected public finance body told the government today.
The independent Chartered In...
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Taxing question could blight Hollinger sale
The auction of Hollinger International, the owner of the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, is proving as complex as it is dramatic. Amid accusations of corporate greed and boar...
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Every loan player should have the chance to do a Lua-Lua
An investigation is under way into the scandal of the forward who scored a goal. Lomana Lua-Lua's equaliser for Portsmouth is a cause célèbre because it was str...
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Q&A: the future of the council tax
What's wrong with the council tax? Didn't it replace the unpopular poll tax?
When the council tax was first introduced, it seemed the most logical option to raise local ...
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Revenue's tough new crackdown on dirty money forces companies to report dodgy deals
The Inland Revenue is expected to launch a crackdown on tax evasion today when stringent new money laundering regulations come into force.
The new rules, designed to as...
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Council tax rebel stands in local byelection
A 71-year-old council tax rebel is bidding for a seat on her local authority today - just a day after being made the subject of a court order for refusing to pay her coun...
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I will go to prison if that is what it takes
The first council tax protester to stand for election says she expects to serve her term out in full, despite facing a possible jail sentence.
Retired social worker Sylv...
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Banking on a good deal
One skirmish in the battle against bureaucracy has recently been won with the introduction of new rules to make switching banks and getting a better deal less arduous for...
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Revenue tries to deflect 50% tax fears
More than a million people could be saved from filling in tax returns under new proposals from the Inland Revenue. Officials said yesterday the move was part of a plan to...
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