Dixons ditches the 'free' deals
It's out with the "interest free option" and "0% credit deals" and in with the "interest option plan" following an agreement between the Office of Fair Trading and high s...
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Blair puts brake on further tax rises
Tony Blair has privately ruled out any more increases in direct tax, saying that last week's Budget was a one-off 'contract with the people' to rescue the health service....
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A new kind of tax
Britain's tax system is changing dramatically as a result of last week's Budget. Millions of people in the middle-to-upper income brackets will pay hundreds of pounds mor...
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The best insurance a nation can hope for?
'The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or races, but the happiness of the common man' - William Beveridge, 1942
It's a tax that few und...
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Benefit will help fight child poverty
The new child tax credit, payable to nearly six million families from April 2003 and the government's main weapon in its fight to abolish child poverty, received a warm w...
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Laptop was a steal
I bought a laptop using my Egg credit card from a branch of CashXchange in London last October and, once I started using it, became increasingly convinced that something ...
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Byers in new sweetener on rail shares
Taxpayers face an extra £150 million bill on top of the £500m earmarked to buy off Railtrack shareholders.
The revelation will stun MPs already angered by Tra...
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We take out health insurance when travelling, yet freely treat visitors able to pay
When Mrs Thatcher's new policies were introduced I was working in a GP practice in London and saw at first hand the consequent destruction of our health service.
Overnig...
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Dirty talk
Last year, the inland revenue gave me a tax audit. This year, I've just given myself a carbon audit. Neither was much fun, but at least I passed the tax audit with colour...
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$2.9m pension boost for AIB boss
Frank Bramble, chairman of the fraud-hit US arm of Allied Irish Banks, is to have $2.9m paid into his pension pot when he retires in June.
Mr Bramble ran AIB's Allfirst...
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