Thousands of people contribute money to help pay a tax bill served on China’s recently detained dissident artist Ai Weiwei.

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Supporters pay Ai Weiwei tax bill

A yard sale in Birmingham, Ala., raised $164,000 to help pay off a $2.9 billion judgment against Richard Scrushy, the disgraced former chief executive of HealthSouth.

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Hunting for Bargains After a Titan’s Fall: Everything Must Go

Australia’s PM Julia Gillard unveils a new tax to help pay for devastating floods that she says will cost $5.6bn in reconstruction.

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Australia unveils new flood tax

Australia’s prime minister raises the prospect of a one-off levy to help pay for the flood devastation, which economists say could exceed A$20bn.

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Australians may face ‘flood tax’

Julian Assange is a free man, for now. The WikiLeaks founder will leave his passport, and he’ll be electronically tagged and have to abide by a curfew. Filmmaker Ken Loach, socialite Jemima Khan, and Michael Moore have volunteered to help pay his bail,…

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Assange Gets Bail

The Business Secretary Vince Cable has ruled out a graduate tax to help pay for universities in England, because he says it would be unfair.

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‘Unfair’ graduate tax is ruled out

Some 77% of Britons think taxpayers should not help pay for Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Scotland and England, a survey suggests.

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Taxpayers ‘should not fund Pope’