Student loans chief is let off tax, while the rest of us pay

Ed Lester, chief executive of the Student Loans Company, who was appointed in May 2010, has for the past 18 months been paid through Penna Consulting, which charged the Student Loans Company for his services. This means that income tax and national insurance contributions...

Briton’s New Years Abstinence Makes the Treasury Grow Poorer

He vows to stop smoking 20 cigarettes a day, forgo his daily bottle of claret and nightly whisky, and stop betting on football and the lottery. Confronting his enlarging gut, he promises to make his ten-mile...

IPL : Partiv Patel and Siddharth Trivedi taxed

Parthiv Patel and Siddharth Trivedi might have taken just as an entertainment for the public but for the Excise dept. they have offered a service which needs to be taxed. Both have been issued showcase notice. "Patel has been asked to pay Rs 42.84 lakh and Trivedi Rs 6.59...

Debt Super Committee needs a hero? I'll be your Huckleberry

Well the deadline has come and gone for the Debt Super Committee?  The Stock Market is roiled and America risks having its credit rating down graded. What should be done? This morning this author took his...

Tory MPs Join Calls For Action On Fuel Prices

More than 80 Conservatives are set to back calls for the Government to take action on soaring petrol prices as Downing Street agrees not to instruct its MPs how to vote. The petrol debate has been triggered by a...

Be prepared for tax season — tax tips and reviews

Tax season is fast approaching and people need to be aware of some of the scams that are out there. Most people are willing to pay a tax prep fee to get their taxes prepared but why would you when you can do it yourself. With tax season fast approaching, it's time to...

US politicians' & voters' financial reality disconnect

These is a teaser for a article I wrote on Examiner.com: "Anger overwhelmed this author upon seeing these two headlines next to each other on the front page above the fold: " 1) S&P downgrades U.S. debt...

Winning at the tax hike game

Pick on the outliers first, Big Oil, Big Companies paying no taxes or getting huge breaks. Then target the extreme wealthy. Sure, that nicks the Republicans, but it is easy to justify with voters. Use the squirming...

Toronto's 5 cent bag 'Fee, tax,' are you running out of bags?

Toronto, CANADA - Toronto recently started charging five cents for plastic carry bags and we are all running out of garbage bags for our trash. I think I may have a solution to this dilemma. (below) It's the...

David Cameron Gives Away £650million? omg

With the constant barrage of media stories of how hard up the UK really is £876billion public sector debt (a legacy of the last Labour government we are constantly being told) a massive deficit, job cuts,...

The tax you should be paying. You are not paying.

"What do your 2010 online holiday shopping purchases have to do with the budget gaps many states are struggling to fill right now? In the eyes of some state and federal legislators, the sales tax that is not being collected by many online merchants is revenue that could help...

Obama. The Rise & Fall

 Some say “Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you're a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you're vegetarian”. We live in a world in which good intentions are...

Wall Street Bailout Returns 8.2% Profit Beating Treasury Bonds

" According to Prins’s tally, the money plowed into the financial system to prop it up peaked at $19.4 trillion. The U.S. government’s bailout of financial firms through the Troubled Asset Relief Program provided taxpayers with higher returns than yields paid on 30- year...

Why should taxpayers pay for the Tax Authority’s mistakes?

If the judicial system spent 10 years and 7 months, and brought a verdict of not guilty, no tax evasion, no violation of tax collection code, but the tax authority still issues a large amount of tax payment notice to you, can you accept it? Will you pay for an huge amount of...

440,000 votes for 2010 Taxpayer's Human Rights Survey in Taiwan

On September 15, 2010, a press conference of “2010 Taxpayer’s Human Rights Survey” is hosted by Offices of four multi-party Legislators: Ms. Lo Su-Lei, Ms. Tien Chiu-Jin, Mr. Kang Shih-Ru, Ms. Lu Siou-Yan,...

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