2. Taxpayers could deduct expense they substantiated with receipts and showed were related to their activities. But taxpayers were denied deductions for expenses they didn’t substantiate or show were related to…
2. Clarified accounting rules regarding purchased in-process restructuring charges, large acquisition write offs, and research and development.…
83/100 1: The Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) is applicable to the sale of:…
After reading a few chapters from Beautiful Souls the non-fiction text written by Eyal Press, I realized I did not understand the meaning of the term swastika. My project in this brief paper is to research the term swastika to gain a better understanding of the term and the text Beautiful Souls.…
While typing the closing documents, a secretary working on “Amendment No. 1 to the First Preferred Ship Mortgage” wrongly typed Prudential’s first mortgage as “$92,855.00” instead of “$92,885,000.00”. This was not noticed by any one. But when United States Lines defaulted on the notes secured by the amended mortgage, Prudential tried to foreclose its $92,885,000 first mortgage. USL’s bankruptcy trustee objected, arguing that the mortgage should be limited to $92,885 as typed in the amendment 1. GECC held USL notes secured by a second mortgage. GECC brought suit for a declaration that Prudential’s first mortgage was valid only for $92,855. Both in the Southern District of New York and on appeal to the Second Circuit, GECC lost.…
The case present before us involves the constitutionality of a dog sniff in regards to the 4rth Amendment. The respondent claims that the police officer, a representative of the State of Florida lacked probable cause to search the vehicle. The dog used in the operation, Aldo was not reliable since his detector certification had expired. Also, the officer did not maintain a record of his field performance alerts. As a result, the respondent contends that Aldo’s alert was false thereby diminishing the validity of probable cause. On the other hand, the State of Florida counters by arguing that probable cause is a flexible common sense standard and requires only a fair probability and not hard certainties. Moreover, the officer who had trained with the dog is the best judge of the dog’s credibility as opposed to the Court’s especially since law enforcement agencies act with good faith. Consequently, defense counsel moved to suppress the physical evidence as the product of a warrantless search without probable cause. The trial court denied the motion to suppress but made no findings. The respondent then appealed to the Florida First District Court of Appeal. They affirmed. Harris v. State, 989 So. 2d 1214 (Fla. 1st DCA 2008). The Florida Supreme Court quashed the lower court decision. Harris v. State, 71 So. 3d 756 (Fla. 2011). The Court scrutinized the case under the totality of the circumstances test established in Illinois v. Gates, 462 U.S. 213 (1983) and concluded that Aldo’s reliability, was not enough to demonstrate probable cause.…
Here are a few sources of good information about the reality our country's fiscal and governance issues, and about how economics really works. When you're better informed, you will help keep our politicians accountable for sound policy and enable our economy to provide opportunity for all.Learn more about our federal government's fiscal issuesPeter G. Peterson Foundation: http://www.pgpf.org/Comeback America Initiative: http://keepingamericagreat.org/Learn more about economicsLearnLiberty.org: http://www.learnliberty.org/…
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Basic health, safety and welfare issues such as ventilation, heating, lighting,workstations, seating and welfare facilities.…
Senator Joe Manchin(D) along with Senator Pat Toomey(R) negotiated a proposed compromise to expand background checks in the wake of stalled gun control legislation. The article addresses Senates need for more votes in order to pass the expansion of background checks. It addresses tactics used by several gun control groups in an effort to sway votes and also touches upon the opinions of the NRA.…
When Amendment 64 was passed last year I thought we would have recreational dispensaries instantaneously. However after reading Amendment 64’s stipulations I realize that Colorado and our National government have a lot of regulation that still needs to be placed in preparation of legalization. Most likely we will start to see recreational dispensaries open January 2014. Even though this seems so far away for most people, considering that the amendment has already been signed for 10 months; but as they say all good things take time.…
Do you agree with the view that the 1867 reform act was largely as a result of public pressure for reform…
Although post Civil War reconstruction was painstaking process that incited a lot of prejudice, violence, and political unrest, with the creation of the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments - or reconstruction amendments - the United States was successfully mended back to a collective country. The reconstruction amendments provided a framework for how the post-war society would conduct themselves, the hopeful theme being “With Malice toward none, with charity for all” (Lincoln, 2nd Inaugural Address). The amendments would be passed in a five year span, immediately after the Civil War, in hopes to provide stability.…
The obstacle of implementing policy in terms of accessibility is related to who is more amendable to judicial enforcement. When comparing public bureaucracy and corporations, public bureaucracies are more amendable. This comes with the fact that public officials are more accessible because of their accountability in public records; their actions are simply more visible and a matter of public record. Corporations are also very much accessible, many have public reports and they are very visible because their impacts on events are too significant. Whereas implementing policy change in terms of individual behavior, afar from corporates and bureaucrats, there are no public documents that might expose transactions of discrimination. “Bureaucracies…
Entity” gave rise to a conforming amendment to ISA 210. This amendment is effective for audits of…