The banking committee hearing came just as the Government Accountability Office noted a steep rise in the number of consumers paying double-digit interest rates on their credit cards.
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That means they could be inadvertently paying double.
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Interest rates of 11.75% in Brazil make for an attractive carry-trade for Japanese banks, who can borrow money at near-zero interest rates and invest in Brazilian government bonds or bank deposits paying double digit yields.
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The challenge is to find ways to keep Audi buyers paying nearly double the price of a Skoda Octavia.
New staff will pay in either 3% or 5% of their salaries, with the ROH paying in double the staff contributions.
Much of the bidding at Thursday's auction happened remotely, by telephone and internet - but Jack Wang was so determined to buy the Nobel Prize medal that he flew in from California, and was prepared to offer double what he ended up paying, reports the BBC's Barbara Plett from New York.
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Proffitt's is paying 1.3 times sales, more than double the rate that it has typically paid for so-what store names such as Younkers and Parisian.
To avoid double taxation, companies operating in states and paying state income taxes can reduce their federal tax obligation by the amount paid to the state (just as individuals can reduce their federal income tax obligation by subtracting their state income tax payment from their income).
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The three UK Crown dependencies have signed double taxation agreements aimed at helping businesses and individuals to avoid paying in two places.
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What this means is that whatever fines and damages BP et al ends up paying as a result of civil litigation, it could be on the hook for double that amount after a criminal trial.
There is nothing illegal about this, but Kenyans who don't grow their own are now paying 50% more for their staple food than they were a year ago, and double the world price, says Robert Shaw, a local economist.
"Sure you may be paying yourself interest at 5%, but you're forgoing the opportunity to make a double-digit return, if you're lucky, on that money, " he says.
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