Dealing with debt shame – ABC listen

Annie Guest: One indicator of how the economy is tracking can be seen in calls to the National Debt Helpline. It’s just had a month of a record number of calls, many from small business owners. And there’s concern shame and a lack of trust stops many indebted Australians asking their banks for help. Jon…

Hergott: Debt owing to the CRA

Mary Anne e-mailed, after reading my last column about estate debts, asking how to stop incessant collection efforts by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA). Her brother died four years ago with nothing of assets and a debt owing to the CRA. I’m guessing the CRA found out she was brother’s executor when she applied for…

Hergott: Debt owing to the CRA

Mary Anne e-mailed, after reading my last column about estate debts, asking how to stop incessant collection efforts by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA). Her brother died four years ago with nothing of assets and a debt owing to the CRA. I’m guessing the CRA found out she was brother’s executor when she applied for…

Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter: The latest developments on the gambling and ‘massive theft’ allegations

CNN  —  Major League Baseball and the Internal Revenue Service are investigating amid allegations surrounding Los Angeles Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani and his longtime interpreter Ippei Mizuhara. The investigations are underway just two days after Mizuhara, a longtime interpreter for the Japanese baseball superstar, was fired after the player’s lawyers accused him of “massive…