BCCI settlement costs top $1.2bn
Creditors of Bank of Credit and Commerce International are to receive another $1bn (£600m), it was announced yesterday as it emerged that the cost of the 11-year liq...
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A little dollars and sense
A variety of strategic reasons have been suggested for the US assault on Iraq, some plausible and others on the wilder fringes of speculation. One idea been popular in th...
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Football diary: The stories that really matter
·Serendipity corner: Grimsby Town this week celebrated their biggest sponsorship deal, struck with the government favourite Jarvis. In the week the construction comp...
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Fraud squad investigates Enfield millions
Contracts awarded by Enfield council that are worth millions to private firms are being investigated by the police, it has emerged.
Enfield itself began the investigatio...
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Getting straight to the point
To tackle your IT queries this month our expert panel includes Ray Chidell, senior tax editor at CCH, financial solution providers for tax and accountancy professionals; ...
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Three months on the phone and still in the dark
Helene Hibbert has spent the past three months calling Inland Revenue helplines to find out how much she can expect to receive from the working tax credit and children's ...
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Refugees to get ?3,000 to go home
Tens of thousands of Iraqi asylum seekers in Britain are to be offered voluntary repatriation packages including a payment of up to £3,000 per family if they return ...
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Card fraud reaches record high
Card fraud in the UK continued to climb in 2002, with a record of just under ?425m of fraudulent transactions made compared with ?411.5m the year before.
Figures release...
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Brown set for male tax revolt
The Treasury is braced for a 'male backlash' against the Budget over changes which will transfer tax credit money from husbands to their wives.
Sources close to Downing...
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US can't pay for war and cut tax
New York Times
Editorial, March 26
"It surely is no coincidence that George Bush's opening $75bn price tag on the Iraq invasion arrived on Capitol Hill yesterday jus...
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