overdraft fee

Georgia's Department of Revenue is dealing with the fallout of a mistake that's proving costly for some taxpayers. Several reports out of Atlanta suggest that many people who filed early 2010 tax returns in Georgia saw their direct-deposit refunds vanish days after they showed up in their...

Ugh. Did we just manage to get one annoying, expensive bank fee out of our hair only to turn around and find another one staring us in the face? Yes, we did, according to MSNBC's Red Tape Chronicles. Here's the short version. The Federal Reserve is cracking down on banks that are slapping their...

Anyone who thinks smoking isn't a costly addiction should ask Josh Muszynski, who went to purchase a pack of smokes at a local gas station and wound up with a $23 quadrillion charge on his debit card -- and a $15 overdraft fee to boot. The 17-digit mistake didn't hit Muszynski until he checked his...