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Taxes are optional for million-dollar earners
Sydney :: Australia | 16 days ago
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Most of their tax liability was wiped out by deducting tax losses run up in earlier years. In 2010-11, the 70 claimed $118 million in prior tax losses, and still had another $360 million left to carry over for use in future years...Only 20 of them
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Higher tax take helps shrink deficit
Wellington :: New Zealand | 17 days ago
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The Government raked in $535 million more tax than expected in the nine months to the end of March, pushing the Budget deficit below $5 billion. Finance Minister Bill English said the figures showed that continued spending restraint was important "as
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French left rallies against Hollande
Zurich :: Switzerland | 17 days ago
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French left rallies against President Francois Hollande Watch Maddy Savage report from the centre of the protest, where she says people feel Francois Hollande's first year results are "not good enough" Tens of thousands of protesters have rallied in
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A policy with many dimensions
Mumbai :: India | 17 days ago
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The significance of the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI's) annual credit policy statement lies not merely in its being the first for fiscal 2013-14. Until a few years ago, the annual policy statement, along with a review six months later were the only
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How India can RAISE $1 trillion for infra projects
Mumbai :: India | 17 days ago
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Asian Development Bank , How India How India can raise $1 trillion for infra projects T his serves the double objective of freeing bank balance sheets to support greenfield projects while bond holders, who have a relatively lower tolerance for risk,
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Budget estimates a 'guessing game'
Sydney :: Australia | 18 days ago
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All the gnashing of teeth about Gonski, budget black holes, revenues collapsing and such like is enough to make your head explode. Add to this noise a new disability levy that is not a tax, a parental levy on business that also is not a tax,
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Balance the U.S. Budget: Tax France, China and Other Foreign 'Free Riders'
Jalīb aš Šuyūẖ :: Kuwait | 19 days ago
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Tax France, China and Other Foreign 'Free Riders' Should we solve our seemingly permanent $1 trillion budget deficit by hiking taxes or cutting spending? Partisan Washington can't seem to settle on any combination of the two. But there's a third
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IRS Troops Will Take To The Street On Seventh Day In May
New York City :: NY :: USA | 20 days ago
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Somehow the idea of tax collectors out in the street protesting seems just a little odd, but that is what will be happening on May 7th. The rally will be held at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan, site of the Jacob K...The rally, at 11:30 a.m. on
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Francois Hollande has achieved far more than his critics suggest
Rome :: Italy | 20 days ago
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With next Monday marking one year since Francois Hollande was elected French President, a tidal wave of I told-you-so's and smugness is about to be visited upon us by Westminster's commentariat. It's fair to say that most of them have never much
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One certainty: NDIS is no waste of money
Sydney :: Australia | 20 days ago
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Louis Porter If we pay more tax, clearly we have less money to spend on other things. The increase in the Medicare levy to pay for DisabilityCare will make us pay more tax...Any answer will be partly subjective, but one thing is clear: raising more
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