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I received a parcel from Amazon, a website I haven’t used for years. Several emails confirmed an order of three items, announced two-step verification on my account and warned a sign-in from an iPhone in Illinois had been detected. The next day an email thanked me for joining Amazon Prime. Since then I have had …

Rescue plans put forward by the high-cost lender Amigo Loans were thrown into doubt on Tuesday after a U-turn by the main financial regulator, which said it would object in court to a deal, reversing its previous stance. Shares in the company, which charges 49.9% interest and requires borrowers to provide a friend or family …

A recruitment firm that hires workers to conduct NHS Covid-19 tests – and is co-owned by a well-known football executive – has been supplying staff employed through a contrived network of companies that possesses many of the hallmarks of a notorious tax scam. Industrious Recruitment has supplied laboratory staff to the Lighthouse laboratories in Milton …

Inheritance tax should become a larger slice of government tax revenue after the pandemic, according to a report by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) that warns wealth inequality will rise over the next decade unless death duties also increase. A more robust tax on inheritances that prevents the use of avoidance measures …

Savers deposited record sums at Post Office branches in April, taking the total to more than £1bn for the second month in a row. The Post Office said it was the first time that personal deposits have topped £1bn for two successive months. A total of £1.07bn was paid in over its counters, following cash …