MEMORANDUM TO: Dr. Green FROM: Kecia Carter DATE: November 28‚ 2010 RE: Tax Memo #1/Gambling Activities Issue #1 Dr. Green is a practicing physician in Chicago who‚ as an avid blackjack and slot machine player‚ travels to Las Vegas bi-weekly to gamble. He would like to know what criteria are used to determine whether his gambling activities constitute a trade or business for federal income tax purposes and whether or not you think his gambling activities qualify for trade or business
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Ashanti there were taxes like “assaseto” it was to raise revenue through direct tax so during the assembly of chiefs summoned at Cape Coast in 19th April 1852‚ the Governor Major Hill passed a Poll Tax Ordinance. The poll tax ordinance imposed tax of one shilling per head on each man‚ woman and child in the colony. The poll tax was to be collected by officers appointed by the Governor with assistance of the chiefs. This tax was intended for the establishment of schools‚ markets etc. It is also for the
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Yaakob and Isa A.S. as mention in the Quran. Besides that‚ Allah also revealed the obligation of the Jews to pay zakat from Surah al-Baqarah verse 83. Under the reign of Prophet Muhammad S.A.W‚ zakat was become fard to all muslims in the second year after Hijrah. Prophet Muhammad S.A.W had used a comprehensive legal framework in order to implement it practically. The zakat workers used to be sent out to collect and to distribute the zakat by Prophet Muhammad S.A.W. In Malaysia‚ the implementation
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TAX AVOIDANCE -By Ramesh Badhri Narayan(12741880) Vijayakumar Muniyandi (12741572) Punjabi Nikhil Prakash (12744129) LIM QI CHONG (12782025) Koundompalayam Jagannathan Meignanam(12742198) 1.0 Tax Avoidance:- An Arrangement where the intention is to avoid or defer tax obligations. Various means of approach- from mass marketed (advertised to general public) to specialist financial arrangements offered directly to investors. Certain Schemes can be camouflaged as legal financial
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will talk about The Great Rift Valley and what kind of boundary it is. What caused this rift to form? Who discovered it? Who named the Great Rift Valley? These questions will be answered in this essay. The Great Rift Valley is located in Africa. “The northern most extension runs through part of the red sea and at the southern end branches into the Gulf of Aden‚ where it continues as a part of the Mid-ocean ridge of the Indian Ocean. The main section of the valley of Africa continues from the red
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SOCIO-ECONOMIC PROBLEM OF TAX AVOIDANCE AND EVASION IN NIGERIA: AN OVERVIEW Dominic Asada LL.B. (Hons.) B.L‚ LL.M. Tax Avoidance and Evasion are some of the most perplexing problems facing the nation today. It is widely believed that there is a considerable difference between estimated revenue from taxation every year and what is actually collected. This disturbing aversion to taxation has some historical antecedents. Traditionally‚ there has always been a hostile response to the payment of tax by the people
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INTRODUCTION Service tax is a tax on Services. Service tax is not a tax on profession / trade but it is a tax on the service provided in exercise of the profession / trade. It is leviable only if there is provision of service. SALE V/S SERVICE Service is different from sale. The fact that some goods have been used in the course of providing service’ doesn’t make that transaction a sale. The nature of the transaction depends on the intention of the parties. If the parties intended to enter into
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There is a very clear distinction between tax avoidance and tax evasion from academic publications. Tax books have defined tax avoidance as “the lawful minimization of tax liability through sound financial planning techniques‚ while tax evasion is the “unlawful attempt to minimize tax liability through fraudulent techniques to circumvent or frustrate tax laws”. The consequences of either action are also clear. The former is not punishable by law while the latter is. However‚ the lines between evasion
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The location of the Valley of Ashes shows the waste that comes from the American lifestyle and the death of the American Dream. When traveling from East and West Egg to New York City‚ the characters journey through the gloomy place of the Valley of Ashes‚ “an area swampland that is being filled with refuse”(Baker). The Valley of Ashes is a dark‚ dirty place between the sparkling East and West Eggs. The valley symbolizes darkness and death: the horror that comes after the expensiveness of the American
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Summarize the sources and objectives of modern income tax statutes. The primary source of US tax law is Congress. Power to initiate tax legislation is vested in the House of Representatives but all tax bills must pass both houses and be signed into law by the President. Many times the details of the legislation are not dictated by Congress‚ but left to the Treasury Department which adopts regulations (that have the force of law) to spell out the details as well as interpret the statutes and provide
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