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New Jersey legislates tax on iTunes downloads

New Jersey residents have been hit by their government with a 7% tax on iTunes downloads (as well as other music download services such as Napster) this past week. The sales tax overall was raised from 6 to 7% in order … Continue reading

06. October 2006 by Neil
Categories: Taxation | Tags: , , , , , , , | 2 comments

Pension brouhaha south of the border

FASB is coming out with some tough new standards relating to defined benefit pensions that is expected to result in signif­icant new liabil­ities (or increases to existing ones) for companies that had been accounting for their pensions under the more … Continue reading

05. October 2006 by Neil
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Love tax theory, hate tax application

Tax is a subject that is near and dear to my heart, but not because I occasionally fill out a tax return. Tax theory is fasci­nating and relevant stuff, but I won’t ask you to take my word for it. I … Continue reading

24. August 2006 by Neil
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NAFTA super highway to accelerate North American trade

I stumbled across this story through digg and it seemed pretty well supported even though it hasn’t been covered in the mainstream media at all yet. The Bush admin­is­tration appears to be planning for a Mexico-USA-Canada “super corridor” to bypass … Continue reading

18. June 2006 by Neil
Categories: Business | Tags: , , , , , , , | 1 comment

Alcatel buying Lucent for $13.5 billion

The French telecom company Alcatel is buying Lucent in what is reported to be a $13.5 billion acqui­sition made to improve R&D capabil­ities in both organi­za­tions. Lucent’s CEO, Patricia Russo, doesn’t speak French but will become the new CEO of … Continue reading

02. April 2006 by Neil
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