Two solid-state lighting (SSL) manufacturers are among the 12 businesses that will receive clean-energy tax credits ranging from $700,000 to $30m each (totaling more than $150m collectively), the US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced. ...
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It survived a U.S. Supreme Court challenge, multiple repeal attempts, delays of key provisions and a disastrous rollout, and now the Affordable Care Act, also known as "Obamacare," marks a major milestone. Beginning Jan. 1, millions of ...
After seeing shipments rise to over one million compressors in October alone, Rechi Precision Co., Ltd. has sold?all?its capacity for November and December, triggering?the company's expectation to?meet?the goal of shipping 12 million ...
Tripling taxes on cigarettes around the world would reduce the number of smokers by one-third and prevent 200 million premature deaths from lung cancer and other diseases this century, according to a review published today in the New ...
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With the new year, Amazon is charging sales on purchases in three more states - Indiana, Nevada, and Tennessee. Amazon agreed to begin collecting sales tax in the three states in 2014, bringing to 19 the states in which it automatically ...
Bruce Harmon/Trans Pixs Congress went home at the end of 2013 without extending a tax deduction that is credited with helping boost truck sales during choppy economic times. Bonus depreciation, as the provision is known, allowed ...
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CKM Building Material Corp., one of the major steel T-Bar and metal ceiling product makers in Taiwan, said since the company's high value-added new metal ceiling products have started to ship to its customers and the company has received ...
Each year, more than $400 million in tax-free income is wasted when flexible spending account (FSA) holders don't spend FSA funds, or fail to submit expenses to be reimbursed by an FSA. While recent U.S. Treasury Department changes give ...
Pakistan-based Azgard Nine Ltd (ANL), one of the largest denim products company by sales in Pakistan, continues to be in the grip of liquidity crisis as there is strong resistance to fresh working capital loans from the lenders, who have ...
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Tripling cigarette taxes worldwide would cut the number of smokers by one-third and prevent 200 million premature deaths this century, Canadian researchers say. Dr. Prabhat Jha, director of the Center for Global Health Research of St. ...
Ascent Solar Technologies Inc of Thornton, CO, USA, which makes lightweight, flexible copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic modules that it integrates into its EnerPlex series of consumer products, has signed a ...
Crocs, Inc. announced that Blackstone Group LP is making a $200 million investment that will give the private equity firm a 13 percent stake in the shoe company. Crocs also said late on Sunday that John McCarvel, its CEO, plans to retire in ...
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China's resource tax reform plan for the coal industry has already been submitted to the State Council and might possibly be carried out as early as January 1, 2014, a source was quoted by a financial information portal as saying Thursday. ...
China's largest steel base, Hebei province, will cut 67.26 million metric tons of capacity by 2017 without putting too much emphasis on local growth in gross domestic product in order to create a sustainable development of the industry and ...
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Bruce Harmon/Trans Pix Congress went home for the year without extending a tax deduction that is credited with helping boost truck sales during choppy economic times. Bonus depreciation, as the provision is known, allowed fleet owners ...