1.   You pay tax on the compensation, but the corporation saves an offsetting amount of tax by deducting the compensation payment.

2.   Ask for an extra compensation payment to make up for the stress you have been caused.

3.   For Germany, Agriculture Minister Ignaz Kiechle rejected as insufficient the proposed amount of compensation payments to farmers.

4.   Furthermore, the price rises were partially offset by increases in compensation payments on top of wages and pensions.

5.   Later in the month a further four firms admitted making compensation payments.

6.   In June a major scandal began to emerge involving securities dealers who had made secret compensation payments to favoured clients for losses incurred through taking their advice.