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Welsh Tories ask taxpayers to pick up iPod tab

Taxpayers will be baying for blood today after the Welsh assembly published a list of its members' expenses which included two claims for iPods.

Taxpayers set to hand over MORE cash to bail out Britain's failing banks

More taxpayers' money looks set to be poured into Britain's banks amid growing signs that the Government's controversial £37billion bailout has failed to ease the credit squeeze.

VeriSign Helps Educate Taxpayers About EV SSL In Light of IRS?s New Security and Privacy Standards

Mountain View, Calif. – January 8, 2009 – Death and taxes may be the only sure things in life, but the Internal Revenue Service is taking steps to help ensure that identity theft doesn’t join that list. To protect an estimated 90 million taxpayers from phishing scams beginning with the upcoming 2009 filing season, the IRS is strongly encouraging all online tax filing services to safeguard their sites with Extended Validation (EV) Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Certificates. A growing number of these services are already heeding the IRS standards by deploying EV SSL Certificates from VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world.

Google gobbling up $7 bn of taxpayers' money every year: Study

WASHINGTON: Online search giant Google, known for promoting free web-based alternatives to costly software products, has been charged with using 21 times more bandwidth than what it pays for, thus making the internet costlier for others and costing taxpayers about $7 billion a year.

Should Taxpayers Back Cars Only the Rich Can Afford?

theodp writes "The NY Times questions the $400M in low-interest federal loans requested by Tesla Motors as part of the $25B loan package for the auto industry passed by Congress last year. 'The program is intended to encourage automakers to improve fuel efficiency, but should it be used for a purpose like this, as the 2008 Bailout of Very, Very High-Net-Worth Individuals Who Invested in Tesla Motors Act?' Tesla says it is assembling about 15 cars a week and has delivered about 80 of its $109,000 base-price Roadsters to date, many of which have gone to the Valley's billionaires and centimillionaires who are Tesla investors as well as early customers. We discussed the company's financial difficulties last month."

NEWS BLOG - Should taxpayers foot the bill for former G-G?

A decision to waive a $190,000 superannuation tax bill for former Governor-General Michael Jeffery has angered some in Government. (read the story here)

Reserve Xmas pews for church taxpayers: German officials

BERLIN (AFP) - With churches expected to be packed this Christmas Eve, German officials are calling for pews to be reserved for church members to ensure they are not squeezed out by holiday-only parishioners.

HBOS risks the wrath of taxpayers with rewards for managers

While the demise of the HBOS business is in no way directly attributable to the many managers in the operation the news that 100 managers in the HBOS group have been flown to New York with their partners all-expenses-paid, has attracted major criticism from consumer groups. The government is also being pulled into the argument with suggestions that they should be reeling in excessive expenditure such as that seen in the "good times".

Google gobbling up $7 bn of taxpayers' money every year: Study

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PM plays down new state cash for banks GORDON Brown last night played down the prospect of a fresh injection of taxpayers' cash to the banks, insisting it was "not the first thing on any agenda".

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'World's biggest fraud': British banks caught up in 33bn Wall Street fund 'scam'

Taxpayers could suffer again after it was revealed two of Britain's leading banks are thought to have lost more than £1 billion in the world's biggest fraud.

set to hand over MORE cash to bail out Britain's failing banks

More taxpayers' money looks set to be poured into Britain's banks amid growing signs that the Government's controversial £37billion bailout has failed to ease the credit squeeze.

Degas sneak peek a thankyou to Olley

Andrew Colley TAXPAYERS need to fork out at least $10 billion to build the national broadband network, Telstra's chief operating officer says.

State injects billions into banks

5.5 billion of taxpayers' money is to be invested in three of the main banks. Listen to analysis and reaction:

Gov't 'efficiency' computer wasted $124M

computer designed to save taxpayers $87 million ended up costing them $124 million instead, investigators say.

Opinion: Bailing out the Big 3... Let Them Eat Cake!

Should Washington, Ottawa and North American taxpayers spend their hard earned cash to bail out irresponsible corporate behaviour?

HMRC warns over tax email scams

The Treasury has taken the unusual step of warning UK taxpayers of a phishing scam doing the rounds, which looks to ensnare frantic last-minute tax return filers.

UK tax office hit by phishers

Websense has warned Internet users to beware of emails offering UK taxpayers a modest tax rebate. The emails, says the IT Web security gateway specialist, are phishing lures.

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