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During the last two sessions of the Minnesota Legislature, bills were introduced in the House and the Senate to provide up to 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave for all workers through a payroll deduction and employer tax.
Neither bill...
Democrats are planning to conduct a thorough investigation of President Donald Trump’s finances when they take over the House of Representatives next year — and they have a plan in place to obtain decades’ worth of the...
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But new taxes for semi-automatic weapons and a tax increase on marijuana are likely to live.
Nation becomes the latest to go it alone as EU talks stall France will start levying charges on tech giants from 1 January 2019, making it the latest nation to go it alone on a digital sales tax.…
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Sky-high taxes, pessimistic outlook, political insecurity and boundless immigration - these are the reasons that may spur many Swedish high earners and captains of industry into leaving for other countries, according to economist Tino Sanandaji, who...
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Congress is finishing up its last scheduled week before the Christmas holiday sends staffers, lobbyists, and members (both naughty and nice) scurrying home. The smart money is counting on a brief government shutdown, as well as the tax writers...
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President Donald Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress passed a major overhaul of the United States tax code in late 2017 that will impact what you owe for 2018. Whether it will benefit you or require you to pay more to the IRS will depend...
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While you're probably donating to charity this giving season out of the goodness of your heart, you can also reap tax rewards at the same time; this good deed does go unpunished!If you plan to write off some of your charitable contributions,...
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State regulators in California have abandoned a plan to tax text messaging as a way to boost revenue, citing a recent ruling by the Federal Communications Commission that limited states' authority over regulating information services.
What are the...
Author and Professor of Philosophy, Stephen R. C. Hicks, sat down in the studio with Glenn Beck to discuss the principles and politics of both socialism and capitalism. Hicks also dispelled the myth that Sweden, Canada and other countries with...
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One of the perks of 401(k)s and traditional IRAs is tax deferral. Any amount you contribute today reduces your taxable income for this year and you won't have to pay any taxes on that amount until you withdraw the money. But you can't put this off...
France will push ahead with its own tax on large internet and technology companies from January 1, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said Monday, as the European Union struggles to finalise a new EU-wide levy.
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Un-checked conventional wisdom is a dangerous thing. Particularly, the notion that lower corporate taxation (now 21%, down from 35%, and an all-time high in excess of 50%) would lead to accelerated...
Just as regulation serves as a sort of a subsidy for bureaucracy, ensuring that experts are needed to meet out the rules appropriately, it also presents an opportunity for the regulated to bend the rules to their own...
I was profoundly embarrassed by and ashamed of the Swedish Nobel Committee and of being an economist when they awarded the Nobel Prize to Eugene Fama.
You see, the economists who cheerled for the Trump-McConnell-Ryan tax cut and claimed it would...
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Fama's Fallacy: Hoisted from Ten Years Ago: The economists who cheerled for the Trump-McConnell-Ryan tax cut and claimed it would rapidly and permanently boost annual investment in America by 800 billion had arguments—bad arguments. The economists...
France is set to impose a sweeping new law starting January 1 which is set to raise as much as 500 million euros in 2019 alone.
The tax, dubbed GAFA for Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon, is targeted towards high-profit internet tech giants who...
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NEW DELHI (Sputnik) - The Indian authorities are exploring the possibility of imposing taxes on Google and Facebook for their paid services, including advertisements sold to local clients, the Economic Times reported on Monday, citing a source in...
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