Card charge adds to shoppers' bills
Consumers are paying higher prices in shops because of the "unjustifiably high fees" charged by payment processor MasterCard, the Office of Fair Trading said today.
The...
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Mouse made hole in my pocket
Our house insurance through Budget Insurance Services was due for renewal on 1 January. On Christmas Eve my husband caught a mouse that had chewed a hole in the armchair ...
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Lord chancellor gets ?2m pension deal
Lord Irvine will get a pension package worth £2m from the taxpayer under a special deal offered to the country's three "great offices of state", the Cabinet Office d...
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Caught in Abbey National's tangled web
Abbey National's website is poor and its e-banking facilities are the worst web pages I've ever seen from a major company. My wife's daughter, who also uses it, agrees. I...
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ING criticised for early billing before closing UK arm
Investment bank ING has infuriated many of its small and medium-sized corporate brokerage clients by billing them in advance for 2003 just days before shutting down its U...
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Deadline beaters
· Depressed about the impending tax deadline? If you are self-employed or a company director needing to submit their self-assessment form and have yet to do anything...
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Child support changes ready to go
Simplification of the child support agency, introducing flat rate payments, is to be implemented four years after it was first announced, the government said yesterday.
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Are my earnings from Canada subject to capital gains tax?
Q I recently left an employee-owned Canadian company and subsequently received payment of around US$35,000 (after eventual payment from Revenue Canada).
I believe that ...
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Should I discontinue my endowment policy?
Q I am expecting my first baby so am trying to save the pennies and cancel any payments. I used to own a property but it was sold in 2001. I took out an endowment policy ...
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Should I consolidate my two debts?
Q I have got a credit card and owe ?6,400 at 0.6% per month. I pay ?200 per month towards this. I also have a loan on which I owe ?3,400 and which I am repaying at ?147 p...
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