monday message board – john quiggin

This taxed foreign income is the main adverse effect for the ATO of cutting corporate taxes since the cut has nearly no effect on ATO revenues from taxing resident dividends – firms pay less withholding tax and so shareholders must pay more directly themselves. ..

spoils of war: women murdered by fuel thieves

. – The model of the Latin American protocol for the investigation of violent deaths of women for gender reasons, from UN Women, explains that femicides that take place in the context of armed conflicts develop between the two main poles behind the femicide motivation: women seen as a possession..

al capone was done for tax evasion – john quiggin

But even disregarding the main issue, Galilee Basin has all the problems associated with large mining projects, and on huge scale disturbance of large land area, heavy demands for water use, and the problems of shipping through Great Barrier Reef, and conflict with indigenous owners. ..

farsnews

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Fox News last month that Washington would jointly host a global summit focused on Iran and the Middle East in Poland in February, but senior US diplomats later softened tone to shift the conference title to security in the Middle-East, denying that Iran will top or be..

the left looks backward (again)

The main character of the novel, one Julian West, falls asleep for 113 years and awakes in the year 2000 delighting in the fact that America had been turned into a socialist utopia.  ..

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