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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Self-assessment dates move forward
New filing deadlines for self-assessment taxpayers will come into force next year, it was announced in today's budget.
The deadline for all taxpayers is January 31, but ...
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The price of democracy
The controversy over the opaque practice of donors giving anonymous loans to political parties has triggered a chorus of calls for this loophole to be closed, despite the...
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