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Discover LudwigThe phrase "payment failure" is correct and can be used in written English.
It typically refers to a situation where a payment has not been successfully completed or processed. Example: "I apologize for the delay in your order, but there was a payment failure that prevented us from shipping it out on time."
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The credibility of HM Revenue and Customs' £35bn estimate of Britain's "tax gap" – the amount lost from the public purse to evasion, avoidance and payment failure – is expected to face fierce challenge when three top officials appear before a parliamentary committee on Monday.
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Other contributory causes to this amount are criminal attacks, tax avoidance, non-payment, failure to take reasonable care, legal interpretation and error.
@HSBC_UK_Help #HSBC I trust you are going to re-imburse my employees that will incur late payment fees due to you BACS payments failure?
A Norway-based supplier of car-seat parts and a consulting group based in the automaker's home market of Sweden are owed payments; failure to pay suppliers led to the initial shutdown at Saab's primary production facility, which, despite a brief resumption earlier this summer, has remained idle for nearly five months.
The migration has clearly had bumps – a slew of Zynga users are screaming murder in the forums over various payments failures.
This "payment for failure" has prompted outrage: "£12m payoff for Captain Clueless," fumed a typical headline.
But giving shareholders more powers will not solve the problem on its own, and payment for failure is not the only issue.
City investors dislike such large multiples because it can lead to "payment for failure" if a company is bought at a cheap price when distressed.
"Mr. DiFrancesco's acceptance of the money," they wrote of the Hovnanian payment, "and failure to advise Council of same was an egregious ethical breach".
Mike van Dulken of Accendo Markets dubs it "the 'good data is bad data' paradigm" - that figures showing good economic growth mean there's more danger that the punch bowl of loose monetary policy might not get topped up many more times..... 8.28am GMT Here's our latest news story on Royal Bank of Scotland's payment system failure, by Angela Monaghan.
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