government needs to impose a soda tax. The soda tax debate has garnered big headlines in newspapers. It ’s only fitting that the attention surrounding America ’s obesity epidemic might come to rest on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs.) The nation ’s penchant for soft drinks is on the rise; we now drink on average 50 gallons per person per year‚ about double the amount we drank in 1977. (The Soda Tax: Potential Weapon In America ’s War Against Obsesity) Last year‚ in the New England Journal of Medicine
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The Lightest Way to Lift Up a Heavy Object - David Choung Have you ever had a time where you had to lift a heavy object into a pickup truck‚ but couldn’t do it? Did anybody suggest using a pulley or an inclined plane? In this paper‚ you will get to know why someone would suggest using a pulley to get a heavy object onto the back of a pickup truck. To use a pulley you first have to know how a pulley works. A pulley is a way to lessen your effort picking up the object. There is a term called mechanical
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To: File From: Xinxin Shi RE: Paula Green and Mary Brown (tax year 2012) Facts Paula Green‚ a U.S citizen and our client‚ is preparing to expand her business into landscaping field. Before the expansion‚ Paula already has already been operating the Green Thumb Nursery whose total assets with a $260‚000 adjusted basis and a $500‚000 FMV. To avoid the risk of paying unlimited debt‚ Paula plans to change business form from sole proprietorship into corporation. And Mary Brown‚ a U.S citizen and
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corporation‚ organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the Philippines‚ operates a concession in Toledo City‚ Cebu. It actually used and/or consumed tax paid extra gasoline and diesel fuel for the mining operation purchased on various dates from Mobil Oil Philippines. On July 19‚ 1978 Atlas filed with the CIR a written claim for tax credit. There being no action taken on its claim for refund on July 21‚ 1978‚ petitioner filed the instant judicial claim for refund. The period of specific
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I live in an area called Fredrickson. It’s said to be upper middle class due to the Boing plant. Anyways if I go to the Walmart and shop the prices are different and so is the tax on the items I purchase I was surprised by this. Not only are the prices different but the items that the store carries differ from the others‚ this is the same with the Safeway store on Canyon rd. the stores are at opposite ends of the road and the prices are different the items are different they cater to the social status
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corporations are considered separate legal entities from their shareholders. As such‚ corporations pay taxes on their annual earnings‚ just as individuals do. When corporations pay out dividends to shareholders‚ those dividend payments incur income-tax liabilities for the shareholders who receive them‚ even though the earnings that provided the cash to pay the dividends were already taxed at the corporate level. 2. What type of taxpayers are considered "eligible" taxpayers with regard to special ordinary
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Debt‚ Death & Taxes 16th October 2002 Robert Camilleri The Conservative government doctrine is essentially defined as the party of tax relief. But now conservatives have converted themselves into the party of debt retirement. The conservative government has lost interest in tax cutting and instead wants to devote the surplus tax payments and asset sales over the next 3 years to paying down the national debt. The Howard-Costello government‚ seen as militant debt hawks‚ has announced their goal
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Fringe Benefit Tax (FBT): • Fringe benefits tax (FBT) is paid on certain benefits employers provide to their employees or their employees’ associates in place of salary or wages. • Fringe: Not part of the mainstream; unconventional‚ peripheral‚ or extreme. • The FBT should be a major concern for the Vybhav Corporation when they planned to increase the fringe benefits. • Employee welfare‚ health club sports and similar facilities. 30 percent. • The employer pays the FBT but many of them recover
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for her support. The remainder of Anne’s support was provided by her mother‚ Amanda. Amanda also provided the entire support for Alex Jr. for 2011. Alex Jr. is in elementary school (born May 14‚ 2002). | Issue: | How should Amanda file 2011 tax return? | Authorities: | IRC § 6013 (a)IRC § 2 (b)IRC § 152 KNOCHELMANN‚ JR. v. COMM.‚ (sixth circuit) Cite as 108 AFTR 2d 2011-6011‚ 08/30/2011 ‚ Code Sec(s) 152; 151; 21; 24; 1; 2 | Conclusion: | Amanda should file her request as a separate return
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Max sells a 2‚500-acre ranch for $1‚000‚000 in cash‚ a note receivable of $1‚000‚000‚ and debt relief of $2‚400‚000. He also pays selling commissions of $60‚000. In addition‚ Max agrees to build a new barn on the property (cost $25‚000) and spend $100‚000 upgrading the fence on the property before the sale. What is Max’s amount realized on the sale? $3‚675‚000 4. 5. When a taxpayer sells an asset‚ what is the difference between realized and recognized gain or loss on the sale? 5. When
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