The party referred the case to Sir Gordon Downey, the parliamentary standards commissioner.Pumping gas The Monopolies and Mergers Commission imposed a one-off price cut on BG (formerly British Gas) amounting to a £29 reduction in the average annual household gas bill.
"Petrobras needs not just a one-off price rise, but international price-parity," she says.
Thames Water applied in August for a one-off price increase next year that would raise average bills by 8% from £354, blaming customers struggling to pay their bills and the cost of a super sewer under London.
That was treasury's best guess of the one-off price increases due to the tax, but the inflationary effect turned out to be less than treasury estimated, and to the extent that prices across the board did go up there is no evidence that anything other than electricity and gas prices will be coming down.
Walla says the one-off pricing option differentiates HelloFax from eFax, which forces users to sign up for subscriptions.
In 2002, they said they would raise prices by up to 3.25%—and Arcelor also announced a one-off 10% price rise in some countries, to make its European pricing "more coherent" after the merger.
In the bricks-and-mortar retail world, no one whose core business is selling "off price" could ever hope to enjoy equal status with retailers selling the latest fashions at full price.
But I can see little prospect of Tchenguiz and his friends pulling this one off, at least not at the price so far suggested - which is around 520p a share.
The likelihood is this is a horrible one-off, a price paid by an occasional misfortunate being for the turbulent despair that lurks in the souls of a very few and then (in even fewer) boils over.
From the 25 pages of advertising in the most recent issue one can extrapolate an annual rate of advertising revenues (at the one-off rate card price of $5,000 a page) of $1.5 million (Koh says revenues will be $1.8 million this year).
But a one-off drop in prices due to cheaper imports from Asia, lower oil prices or deregulation in telecommunications is not the same as "deflation".
