Jozef Imrich, name worthy of Kafka, has his finger on the pulse of any irony of interest and shares his findings to keep you in-the-know with the savviest trend setters and infomaniacs.
''I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.''
-Kurt Vonnegut
Regulators and the consumer data right: new responses now a possiblity
“Everyone knows the song that Millwall fans sing, to the tune of „Sailing”: 'No one likes us/No one likes us/No one likes us/We don't care.' In fact I have always felt that the song is a little melodramatic, and that if anyone should sing it, it is Arsenal. Every Arsenal fan, the youngest and the oldest, is aware that no one likes us, and every day we hear that dislike reiterated.” ― Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch
“Shop fascinated her, for she knew that most men were interesting only when they were talking it. As long as one hadn’t heard it all that fatal time too often. And behind the technicalities were a man’s own view of them, his thoughts and his unconscious judgements. No man could wholly hide them and not all tried.”
THREE
years ago, thousands of Australians signed an online petition to get
Malcolm Turnbull to take a $1 salary — or donate his entire pay packet
to charity
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"Can any of us here think of a country that
has made itself wealthier and boosted productivity by building walls?
~ Dr Lowe
The Guardian: “In the Chinese city of Hengyang, we find a fatigued, disposable workforce assembling gadgets for Amazon, owned by the world’s richest man…The Foxconn factory in Hengyang relies on the tried and tested formula of low wages and long hours. But here there is another element
ProPublica: “The CDC has quietly published a controversial review of perfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, that indicates more people are at risk of drinking contaminated water than previously thought. A major environmental health study that had been suppressed by the Trump administration because of the “public relations nightmare” it might cause the Pentagon and other polluters has been quietly released online. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published the controversial 852-page review of health dangers from a family of chemicals known as perfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS – man made chemicals used in everything from carpets and frying pan coatings to military firefightin
In my most recent Annual Report to Congress, I included the IRS’s efforts to reach out to participants in the sharing economy (also know as the “gig economy”) as a Most Serious Problem. ...
Since the beginning of the Internal Revenue Code, taxpayers have sought to lower their tax bills through creative tax planning. The step transaction doctrine is one of several tools used by the Internal Revenue Service and courts to challenge tax shelters and tax evasion. The step transaction doctrine provides that the courts may combine two or more allegedly separate steps in a multi-step transaction into a single step to better reflect the economic reality of the taxpayer’s actions. Derived from Supreme Court decisions in the 1930s, the doctrine deserves renewed scrutiny today because serious conceptual issues exist regarding the three current tests that courts use to determine when to combine various steps in a tax-motivated multiple-step transaction. This Article addresses two perennial themes in tax law: the role of judicial doctrines in a statutory system and the difficulty of taxing related-party transactions.
These new entrants to the sharing economy will need to spend significant time learning about their tax compliance obligations and devote many hours to recordkeeping. For example, the IRS estimates that it takes taxpayers nearly 40 hours to learn about depreciation methods, keep records, and report the depreciation to the IRS. Yet, according to a recent survey conducted by NASE, 69 percent of entrepreneurs who participate in the sharing economy received absolutely no tax guidance from the service coordinators.
“Shop fascinated her, for she knew that most men were interesting only when they were talking it. As long as one hadn’t heard it all that fatal time too often. And behind the technicalities were a man’s own view of them, his thoughts and his unconscious judgements. No man could wholly hide them and not all tried.”