* Newstin.com is for sale! * After achieving our strategic milestone, we are offering for sale: Newstin.com and all 14 related domains featuring 1 million unique visitors per month + continuously updated news database of 37 million articles in 12 world languages from 166,000 global and weighted sources + 2.1 billion metadata * To seize this unique chance, contact invest@newstin.com. * Newstin.com is for sale! *

Progressive Tax

Kayunga Devises New Revenue Sources

allafrica.com
Jun 26, 2008
        

Posted to the web 26 June 2008 Saul Wokulira Kampala THE district council has approved new ways of collecting revenue. This is aimed at solving the problem of insufficient funding following the abolition of graduated tax. The...

add comment
                   

Education Letters: Maths for engineers

independent.co.uk
Jun 25, 2008
        

Imperial College has said that it plans to lengthen degrees due to students' weakness in maths. We are most encouraged by the universities who will be welcoming successful advanced diploma graduates in the years to come.

add comment
                   

Some billionaires are better than others

kyivpost.com
Jun 18, 2008
        

We have a lot of admiration for entrepreneurs who seize opportunities to make economies better, who create wealth and jobs and who then spread the bounty around – through significant taxes and charitable contributions to build...

add comment

Candidates' tax plans raise U.S. debt

washingtontimes.com
Jun 13, 2008 1,628 related
        

Sen. Barack Obama's tax plan would make the U.S. tax system more progressive, while Sen. John McCain's tax policies would make the system more regressive - but both of them would raise the national debt by trillions of dollars,...

add comment
                   

Scottish university fees scrapped, but thousands of students to repay lump sum

wsws.org
Jun 11, 2008 4 related
        

By Niall Green 10 June 2008 Around 3,000 postgraduate students in Scotland have been sent a bill ordering them to repay the full £2,289 cost for their undergraduate education. The Scottish Parliament voted in February to...

add comment
                   

Budget cuts subsidy, broadens tax net

thenews.com.pk
Jun 11, 2008 3 related
        

Thursday, June 12, 2008 Subsidy on oil cut by Rs35bn Progressive withholding tax rate proposed Salaries of govt employees, pensions up by 20pc Duty imposed on 300 luxury items, duty on cement up Minimum wage fixed at Rs6,000 By...

add comment
                   

Jean Ross: Tax hikes must be part of budget fix

sacbee.com
Jun 8, 2008 15 related
        

Budgeting isn't the same thing as surgery, although you might not know it from the words – cut, hack, slice – used to describe it. But budgeting and surgery share one essential rule: Before you open the patient, get the...

add comment
                   

Chris Satullo: Some 'big ideas' from the left

philly.com
Jun 3, 2008
        

Conservatism's long heyday in national politics is grinding to an ugly halt. The demise may have been inevitable; cue in Eric Hoffer's oft-quoted line that every cause begins as a movement, turns into a business and degenerates into...

add comment
                   

Budget 2008: An Admission of Failure

scoop.co.nz
May 26, 2008
        

Press Release: New Zealand Business Roundtable Budget 2008: An Admission of Failure What should we hold a government accountable for? The current government has been unequivocal about its top priority goal: to get New Zealand back into the top half of the OECD income range. Finance minister...

add comment
                   

Election Year Budget Lacks Vision

scoop.co.nz
May 25, 2008 14 related
        

This week, NZCPR Weekly examines whether Labour's 2008 Budget will improve living standards , Guest Commentator Roger Kerr provides a critical review of the Budget, and the poll asks whether Michael Cullen's tax cuts have met your expectations. Please ...

add comment