This year, ten percent fewer credit - card holders received bad news about their cards in the form of card issuers lowering their credit, charging higher interest rates,
enacting late payment fees, canceling their cards or other events that would negatively effect one's relationship with their credit card.
Among the less noticed features of the federal tax overhaul
enacted late last year is a provision eliminating the deductibility of sexual harassment settlement
payments and related attorney's
fees if the parties agree to keep the settlement secret.