Half a billion pounds owed in council tax
Local authorities are owed council tax payments totalling more than ?500m, the government has revealed.
And local government secretary Stephen Byers today warned authori...
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Still paying out for bust Independent
I have a home insurance policy with Independent Insurance arranged through a broker and paid by monthly direct debit on credit. My broker says that, as Independent Insura...
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?1bn wasted' on failed IT projects
More than £1bn of taxpayers' money has been squandered in a series of high-profile government IT failures since Labour came to power, according to research published...
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EarthPort heads to banks with cap in hand
EarthPort, which provides internet surfers with "online wallets" for payments over the web, has said it will run out of cash in a matter of weeks unless it secures additi...
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More trouble for Becker as the taxman cometh
Boris Becker's problems intensified yesterday when his lawyer admitted that the Munich tax inspectorate has demanded that the three-time Wimbledon champion pay some DM25m...
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Concerns raised over ?4,000 return to work bonus
The government has been given the green light to offer teachers a ?4,000 'welcome back' payment if they return to the profession, despite concerns from the School Teacher...
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From zeroes to heroes
Income chasing investors can zero in on low risk, long term 9% yields - and those gains will be income tax free.
Or thanks to commissions and charges they could buy the...
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Net accounts for only 3% of card fraud
Only 3% of UK credit card fraud relates to the internet, according to experts, yet consumers are still concerned about buying online.
Last year there were 5.9bn of cred...
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Web security breach forces users to cancel cards
Thousands of people today discovered that their credit cards details and personal information had been made freely available on a Consumers' Association website.
The CA ...
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It's a Maxwellian tangle
The collapse of Independent Insurance was described as "Maxwellian" in its complexity yesterday by the insolvency expert dismantling the commercial insurance group.
Expl...
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