In miniature, Sajid Javid's approval of touts is part of the same ideology that sees every available inch of public life exploited for profit, every transaction monetised at every possible point, from energy to entertainment, often at the expense of those least able to afford the surcharges.
Prices start from £359 per person and include return flights from Heathrow or Glasgow, four-star B&B accommodation in the centrally located Hotel Odinsve, plus taxes and surcharges.
Employee benefits consultants find that more and more companies plan to levy surcharges on the healthcare policies they do still provide to employees' partners.
Shareholders despair of its 8% return on equity, now that a plethora of new capital and liquidity surcharges apply to it and other too-big-to-fail banks.
The owners best suited to GE's assets would be entities that are exempt from the capital surcharges now imposed on big banks—either because they are not banks or are foreign.
The largest institutions would pay capital surcharges and need to provide far more extensive analysis of their risks.
Even if it didn't retaliate, it might just depreciate its currency further to compensate for the effect of the import surcharges.
Nevertheless it says that the law relating to misdeeds by councillors and other public figures is a mess.The "surcharges" levied on errant councillors and their officials are, in the committee's view, unjust and inconsistent, and must go.
New surcharges on the richest are part of austerity programmes in Portugal and Spain.Even in more buoyant emerging economies, inequality is a growing worry.
Despite the tumbling price of oil, fuel surcharges of hundreds of pounds are still common on many routes; they are just included in the up-front price.
Gone are the days of check-out surprises when sneaky fuel surcharges, aviation taxes and the like all of which were unavoidable were added at the last moment.As Simon Caldwell discussed in his Independent column recently, this does not mean that the charges have gone away.
