Balancing act
Q How do credit card companies calculate their interest rates? I was looking at a NatWest card which offers a 5.9% APR for the life of the balance transfer. Does that mea...
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Public foots ?150m Railtrack bill
Taxpayers will have to stump up an extra £150 million to buy off angry Railtrack shareholders when details of how the ruined company will be taken out of administrat...
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My racist mother had to die
Ten years ago, the white residents of East London in South Africa were driving around with "I Love Louis" stickers on their cars, decorated with three bullet holes throug...
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Cleaners move in at America Inc
A powerful New York Stock Exchange committee last night took unprecedented action to restore the battered reputation of corporate America, issuing a tough new set of corp...
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One rule for all
Name one tax issue on which all three main political parties, the TUC and the Association for Accountancy and Business Affairs are all agreed? The need to close offshore ...
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Investing gifts
Q My mother, who is 83, recently made some cash gifts to my three children
(aged l7, l5 and 9 years) in order to avoid payment of Inheritance Tax on her death or reducti...
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Secret deals that obscure the royal finances
Since the Queen pays income tax on her vast personal fortune - something she volunteered to do in 1993 - and the palace now publishes annual accounts, it ought to be simp...
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Full check on empty house fraud
I have been receiving letters addressed to a Francis L. Wilson. I eventually opened one, which was from a solicitor saying Mr Wilson was being taken to court for a £...
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In good company
Number crunchers at the Institute of Fiscal Studies say self-employed workers are likely to blow a large hole in the government's finances as they switch en masse to inco...
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Cost of learning: the funding options
Market fees
Allow universities to charge what they want for courses. Would liberate vice-chancellors, allow extra investment, free up money for scholarships for poorer...
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