Lastly, third-party payments to higher education have greatly obfuscated the final price that students pay.
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El Pais reported that the money came into Popular Party coffers through secretive donations from construction firms and other businesses, and was used for various purposes, including tens of thousands of dollars in secretive payments to party officials.
An all-party scrutiny committee agreed new payments for renewable energy - including palm oil.
Just weeks after launching the site, friends asked to use the software to coordinate payments for a party bus.
Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has strongly denied that he or other top conservatives have for years accepted secretive cash payments from the party.
Griesa also ruled that any party aiding Argentina in making payments that excluded the holdouts, including trustee Bank of New York Mellon, were legally liable.
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Most app stores rely on more cumbersome processes, such as payments through third-party services like PayPal or Google Checkout.
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In the Deep South, the Alabama State Employees Association got caught last year taking undisclosed payments from a third party for endorsing its retirement-plan offering to its union membership.
The Alliance Party's Anna Lo said direct payments were a "lifeline" for many social landlords and she did not want to axe a system which had worked well in Northern Ireland for many years.
To date, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has moved to contain a political scandal over alleged cash payments to him and leaders of his party.
CustomMade plans to soon accept payments through its site using a third-party provider.
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Spain's public prosecutor says there are grounds to investigate alleged secret payments made to leaders of the ruling Popular Party (PP), including Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy.
Her party is working on policy proposals that would mean benefit payments to those out of work or on low incomes would vary according to their past contributions.
To process the payments, businesses must rely on third-party merchant service providers (MSPs), which offer a dizzying array of rate structures that range from a flat rate to a percentage of the amount charged to the card.
The current retail payments industry rests on what is called the four party payment model.
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Campbell found evidence that the hosts of third-party webpages linked to from Landslide had used the portal to process payments to themselves from stolen cards.
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The company helps groups collect payments for a wide variety of causes, including weddings, party buses and local projects.
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But he said his party would look at whether wealthier pensioners should be eligible for winter fuel payments and other universal benefits - such as free buses passes and TV licences as well as winter fuel payments - ahead of the next election.
Whether to accept such payments would be up to each government to decide, just like any other party transacting in the currency.
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Former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi has promised to abolish an unpopular local property tax if his party wins the 24-25 February elections - and to refund last year's payments in cash.
Nina Olson, the national tax advocate, whose job at the IRS is to protect taxpayers' interests, has called for new laws that would require a third-party payroll service to post a bond for its clients that would cover any lost tax payments.
Last year's vote on a controversial Dodd-Frank rule requiring U.S.-listed oil and gas companies to report payments to foreign governments for oil rights passed by a 2-1 vote on party lines.
Another newspaper, ABC, headlined its story: "Luis Barcenas accuses the Popular Party leadership of having collected in B, " the letter Spaniards typically mention when referring to secretive payments made in cash, with the aim of avoiding taxes.
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