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• HIPS have us on the hop
• Pensions: why aren't they simpler?

 

Inheritance tax guide

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• Making a will - your two-part guide
• Inflation nation
• Banks: it's in their interest
• Council tax - could you claim a rebate?

 

More Paul Lewis

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• 10 ways to save money

• 10p tax band - will MPs stick to their guns?

• 10p tax band: Paul Lewis on the Government's u-turn

• 25 million people warned of ID theft

• A house or a home?

• A million still pay more tax

• A tale of two duplicities

• A tale of two tax cuts

• Age discrimination lives

• An income for life

• Another tax grab

• Another tax loophole could hit pensioners

• Back to the future

• Backdated pension credits - make sure you claim what's yours

• Banking on complexity

• Banking on free banking

• Banks brought to account over charges

• Banks support ageism

• Banks' premier league charges - February 2007

• Banks: it's in their interest, not yours

• Beware the Treasury's secret agenda - March 2007

• Bills unpaid as debts grow

• Building societies disappear

• Card fraud on the rise

• Cash is king - for now

• Cash is king as rates rise - November 2006

• Cash or shares in 2008?

• Christmas isn't coming early

• Colombian con echoes credit crunch

• Council tax to rise by more than pensions

• Council tax: could you claim a rebate?

• Credit reference agencies - October 2006

• Customers rebel over bank charges - November 2006

• Darling offers surprise guarantee

• Darling's tax change could hit under 65s

• Debts rise among older people

• Don't worry - the R word will be followed by the R word

• Don't worry about free banking

• End of the unfair mortgage exit

• Extra extra, read all about it...before you pay up

• Fair compensation for Equitable Life victims

• Fantastic plastic - November 2006

• Final salary pension schemes

• Financial crisis: inflation and pensions

• Financial journalist Paul Lewis looks at the Conservatives' tax proposals

• Floods of tears, insurance fears

• FSA must tell consumers what it knows

• Gas cooking - January 2007

• Glitch leaves people scratching their heads

• Gordon's tax grab - March 2007

• Government gives in on lost pensions

• HIPs have us on the hop

• How much of our money in the bank is safe?

• Inflation returns (made in China)

• Inflation rise a real worry

• Inheritance tax - down to earth or not of this world?

• ISA takes the cake

• Lax pension companies take the flak

• Libor-rate your savings

• London borough puts freeze on council tax

• Money news with Paul Lewis

• No haven for Brown from Obama

• No pensions without consensus

• No tax please, we're City-ish

• Northern Rock crisis: Rock around the block

• Northern Rock ISA customers can keep tax advantages

• northern-rock-wages

• Paul Lewis on the housing market: demand beats supply

• Paul Lewis on the Social Fund

• Paul Lewis: it's a mad, mad Madoff world

• Payment Protection Insurance - January 2007

• Pension credit take-up effort abandoned as target missed

• Pension service doubly stuffed

• Pensions - isn't it time they made things simpler?

• Pensions plan problem

• Pity the poor Bank

• Policy poverty over fuel

• Private pensions disappointing for most

• Queuing for Christmas pensions

• Recession fears: to panic or not to panic?

• Revolution proposed in financial sales

• Rich pickings

• RIP PPI?

• Rising fuel bills under the spotlight

• Same day money transfers finally arrive...slowly

• Savings with six appeal

• Share prices can go down as well as plummet - February 2007

• Small collectors under the hammer

• Tax dodges

• Tax rules: don't let the Revenue skim the cream

• Tax wars: Chancellor Alistair Darling's inheritance tax plans

• The 10p tax band: ask your MPs to vote against change

• The end of free banking?

• The great annual giveaway - November 2006

• The haves and have debts - January 2007

• The inflation surge

• The state of the economy

• Time to tighten belts as inflation hits 18-year high

• Top fear for Clarkson

• Travel insurance - November 2006

• U-turn on NI contributions

• When the music stops: economy in crisis

• Where have all the pensions gone?

• Who will be the last bank standing?

• Women's state pensions: not so much a U-turn, more an admission of truth

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Pensions

• 'Buying' state pension years won't come cheap
• Backdated pension credits
• More on pensions...

Retirement

• Paul Lewis' inheritance tax guide
• Long-term care questions
• More on retirement...

The best deals

• Plug those budget leaks
• Crushing the credit crunch
• More on the best deals...

Tax and benefits

• Taxing issues over inheritance
• Carers' benefits: are you eligible?
• More on tax and benefits...

Managing your money

• Foiling the phishers and fraudsters
• Make your credit rating squeaky-clean
• More on managing your money...

Making money

• Getting a job over 50
• Working from home - pros and cons
• Selling online

Our experts

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Government guides

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