Bid to end private tax collection dies
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An initiative to farm out tax collection to private agencies survived a challenge Thursday from House lawmakers who said the program was improper and should be eliminated.
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Defra was to let councils charge for collections but Downing Street killed plan, reports say.
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Robert M. Ball, a former Social Security commissioner considered by many as its chief defender and the father of Medicare, has died at age 93.
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Arabella Spencer-Churchill, the unconventional granddaughter of Britain's wartime prime minister and a founder of the Glastonbury rock festival, has died at age 58, her husband said.
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A terminally ill baby in Britain whose life-saving treatment was withheld in a high-profile legal case has died, prompting angry calls for an inquiry from the baby's family.
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Baron Guy de Rothschild, who managed his family's French banking empire and saw it taken over first during the Nazi occupation and then by a Socialist government 40 years later, has died. He was 98.
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The founder of Seagate Technologies died on Tuesday following complications from heart surgery.
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Tributes were being paid today to the &quot;enormously distinguished&quot; Lord Hanson after the millionaire businessman died of cancer at his home in Berkshire last night.
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The deal to bring Major League Baseball back to Washington, DC, was described by Mayor Anthony Williams as close to dead on Wednesday after the City Council changed the plan to require private financing.
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Sir Angus Ogilvy, the aristrocratic businessman who married the Queen&#39;s cousin but insisted on paying his own mortgage, died yesterday at the age of 76.
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By HAYNES  Did Rep. Pedro Coln (D-Milwaukee) misplay his hand at the expense of Milwaukee taxpayers?  That's what some critics argue after the Joint Finance Committee recently turned aside an attempt to close a loophole in the funding plan for the city's voucher schools.
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A bill that would make it easier to  sue online file-trading networks like Kazaa appeared on Friday  to have died a quiet death, but other copyright bills sought by  the entertainment industry continued to advance.
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Business & money: Â· Brown pressed to reform private equity concessionsÂ· Campaigners seize on tax admission
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Former Northern Ireland minister Sir Nicholas Scott dies at a London hospice, his family announces.
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Former French Prime Minister Raymond  Barre, an economist who also served as a European commissioner,  has died, his family said on Saturday. He was 83.
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The estate of Kenneth Lay, who died after being convicted of heading a fraud that destroyed Enron Corp. , agreed to pay $12 million to settle claims on behalf of participants in company pension plans, the Labor Department said.
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The fundraising organization that helped vault former Rep. Tom DeLay to Republican leadership ranks in the House and distributed election money to numerous Republicans has been fined for campaign finance violations and is shutting down.