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House of Eratosthenes (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
It’s not just this subprime mortgage mess, it’s every single economic issue, seemingly with no exception: Each issue has a left-side and a right-side. Universal healthcare. Minimum wage. Labor unions. Income taxes. Corporate taxes. Estate taxes. Offshore drilling. Sometimes the right side of the issue is to “do something!” and the left side is “don’t do [...]
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International - Home (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
VAT, income and profit tax remain unchanged next year
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TaxProf Blog (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
Lily L. Batchelder (NYU) has posted What Should Society Expect from Heirs? A Proposal for a Comprehensive Inheritance Tax, 62 Tax L. Rev. ___ (2008), on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The upcoming one-year repeal of the federal estate tax...
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EuroInvestor.co.uk (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
Paying personal property and real estate taxes is easier than ever, thanks to an online service available to residents of 26 Arkansas counties. Working in conjunction with county tax c.. - Read more
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Paying personal property and real estate taxes is easier than ever, thanks to an online service available to residents of 26 Arkansas counties. Working in
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The Economist (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
SIR a Your otherwise excellent article on water repeated a common misperception about the role of water pricing (aRunning drya, September 20th). You attributed the awastefula use of water by farmers to the fact that governments ararely chargea them a market price for the stuff. However, pricing water does little to stimulate efficiency or ensure best allocation to highest-value uses....
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TaxProf Blog (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
The Government Accountability Office yesterday released Actions That Could Improve Rental Real Estate Reporting Compliance (GAO-08-956): At least an estimated 53% of individual taxpayers with rental real estate misreported their rental real estate activities for tax year 2001, resulting in...
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Mister Snitch! (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
It's THIS bad: Jersey has the highest median real estate tax in the nation. It's truly in a class by itself - about 50% higher than the next-highest state. Jersey has about $25 billion in debt. That's "billion" with a "b". Most of this is in unfunded union pensions. In other words, the state is obliged to pay out money it does not have. Jersey takes the highest percentage of income via real estate...
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Serially Speaking (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
Leaders Medicine - Shooting down cancer Pakistan's new president - A 10% chance he will get it right? Ukraine - Near-abroad blues Financial services - Hank to the rescue Israel - Give Livni a chance Letters On India's nuclear technology, estate taxes, South Ossetia, immigration, lawyers' fees Briefing Egypt - Will the dam burst? Europe Russia's western neighbours - Ukraine comes to the forefront Russia...
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Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
The American Bar Association Section of Real Property, Trust and Estate Law, Young Lawyers Division, and the ABA Center for Continuing Legal Education are sponsoring a teleconference and live audio webcast on October 28, 2008 entitled The Uncertainties of Death...
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3arabawy (Free subscription) | 09/20/2008
The Real Estate Tax Collectors have launched the first issue of publication, Nobet Sahayan, The Awakening, and as I’m writing now, thousands of copies are being distributed among the tax collectors in virtually all the provinces. The magazine is specifically addressing the 55,000 real estate tax collectors. It will not only be the central organ in [...]
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Fact-esque (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
And what the oligarchs never want you to think about is that heavily taxing the rich - especially things like estate taxes - also make the economy richer, improve your opportunities, increase the likelihood of innovation, and all that other...
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TaxProf Blog (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
The Tax Law Review hosts a symposium today at NYU on the forthcoming article by Lily Batchelder (NYU), Taxing Privilege More Effectively: Replacing the Estate Tax with an Inheritance Tax. The abstract is below the fold. Here is the schedule:...
