In Q4 last year, Microsoft announced through its Interoperability @ Microsoft blog that it was planning to open up its proprietary PST email format used by Outlook. The data in .pst files has been accessible through the Messaging API (MAPI) and Outlook Object Model (two things of which my understanding is minimal at best), but […]
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Opening up Outlook’s data format
June 26th, 2010 · No Comments
Category: Technology
Tags: data, email, exchange, information, interoperability, knowledge, Microsoft, Outlook, PST
Ten principles of sound tax policy
December 11th, 2007 · No Comments
The Tax Foundation’s Ten principles of sound tax policy are a must-read for those influencing tax policy. I think the list can be further refined down to about half that, but maybe they wanted to get an even ten. For instance, maintaining the neutrality of the system (#2) will result in broad bases (#3). It’s when […]
Category: Taxation
Tags: government, harmonization, Ontario, politics, PST, sales tax, tax, Tax Foundation, tax policy
Bank of Canada chief pushes smarter provincial sales tax
June 4th, 2006 · 1 Comment
David Dodge, the governor of the Bank of Canada and the current architect of our monetary policy, suggested the province of Ontario should revamp the provincial sales tax (PST) to more closely resemble the value-added federal GST in a rare appearance before the Commons industry committee. The suggestion is a solid one, as it would […]
Category: Taxation
Tags: Bank of Canada, consumption tax, David Dodge, efficiency, GST, Ontario, PST, sales tax
