George Osborne has delivered his sixth Budget, and the last of the current Parliament. The key points are as follows: Economy The UK grew 2.6% in 2014, faster than any other advanced economy but lower than 3% predicted in December ...
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Posted in Medical Device Business by Qmed Staff on September 23, 2014 The House of Representatives has passed a bill that would repeal the medical device tax. The repeal was included within H.R. 4: Jobs for America Act, which the website ...
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The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has decided to run a check on the tax payment of foreign workers in the garment factories in Bangladesh. The board has asked its field officers to prepare a list of workers who are illegally working in ...
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The U.S. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration says the IRS needs to do a better job collecting the medical device excise tax created under Obamacare. The inspector general looked at 5,107 Forms 720 from the first half of 2013 ...
Starting this month, Canada Revenue Agency is sending out 33,000 letters to help Canadian taxpayers (as they put it) "better understand their tax obligations and to encourage them to correct any inaccuracies in their past income tax and ...
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Alvopetro Inc. ("Alvopetro" or the "Company") announces that it has closed a transaction with Petrominerales Ltd. ("Petrominerales") to sell its 25 percent interest in 10 exploration blocks located in the Reconcavo Basin and three marginal ...
The government could save up to £70bn by 2020 if it shifted away from paper and digitised its activities, learned to work in new ways but with fewer staff, sought out for the best procurement deals, and made use of data and analytics, ...
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U.S. federal prosecutors charged eight people on Wednesday in connection with a multimillion-dollar fraud that siphoned money from hacked accounts at banks and financial institutions, laundered it and sent it overseas. The cover page ...
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Material handling equipments are useful in almost all types of businesses. These provide smooth movement and placement of industrial goods. For effective and efficient handing of industrial goods various types of equipments are used. These ...
The American Trucking Associations' (ATA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index increased a slight 0.9 percent in March. That's coming after a 0.7 percent decrease in February, the only month in the last five that recorded a drop. Since November ...
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Before writing off your home office, make sure to read up on the lengthy list of qualifications required by the IRS. With the number of home offices exploding (an article in Forbes estimates that more than 3 million workers can make the ...
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The American Trucking Associations' advanced seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index rose 0.6 percent in February after increasing 1 percent in January (the 1 percent gain in January was revised down from a 2.4 percent increase ATA ...
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The Weir Group PLC (“Weir”) has extended its leading presence and capabilities in global mining and oil sands markets with the acquisition of a leading Canadian based manufacturer of wear resistant linings. In addition, ...
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Dropbox CEO Drew Houston has warned against buying into cloud services offered by mobile device manufacturers and network operators, claiming that consumers and businesses can easily become locked in. Speaking at Mobile World Congress in ...
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A change in federal tax law that decreased the take-home pay of many working Americans is impacting household budgets. According to NRF’s 2013 Tax Returns Survey conducted by BIGinsight, nearly three-quarters (73.3%) of those polled ...
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