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by rprasad 14y ago
Well no, it's not a matter of size nationally. It's a matter of the size of the business or business activity within that state giving rise to an economic "nexus" with that state. Transit through a state is not considered a business or a b
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There is a line for bribe income. You include it as "other income" and must provide an attached statement describing each of the income items that are included in "other income".
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And that's how we know the comment on reddit is trolling. During tax season, i.e., right now (for extended deadline returns due Sept 15/17th, as Romney's are), accountants (especially Big 4 accountants like PWC) frequently work past midni
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Jurisdiction for state taxation is not a matter of business presence, it is a matter of having sufficient nexus. This is and always has been the deciding factor. When Amazon was "just" an online "catalog", it could take advantage of cases
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> No, they only need to describe the statistical probability of an error I can see that comprehension is not your strong suit. As I said, they must show that a mistake was, or could have been made. You can show that a mistake coul
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Cash method taxpayers do not get to take advantage of "matching principles". They must report income when received. Matching principles only apply to accrual method taxpayers, who may record invoices or liabilities separately from the actu
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The point was that it was cited as an example of similar fraudulent claims of athletic prowress, which is directly relevant to the linked article. Whether the article itself is pertinent to HN is beside the point; emmi_guy's comment was
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Because the defense must first provide some evidence that a mistake was, or could have been made, in order for the jury to receive such an instruction.
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Claiming to run a sub-3 hour marathon was not a verbal gaffe; it was a deliberate statement intended to fortify his image as an athletic over-achiever. The candidate claimed it was a "verbal gaffe" only after being confronted with its fals
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Sorry for the late reply, but my point was that this money wasn't put back into the U.S. economy in any form , including loans to other companies. They simply moved this money to their U.S. bank acounts, where it remains to this day.
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TLDR: author lacks basic understanding of both macroeconomics and the reasoning underpinning the complexity of modern tax systems (here's a hint: tax codes always start off simple and get more complicated to minimize evasion and loopholes
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It doesn't. It's a fantasy held by those with large amounts of stock in companies with lots of spare cash lying around in their foreign subsidiaries. The last corporate tax amnesty on repatriated earnings did absolutely nothing to benefit
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The sad thing about all this is that this does not necessarily mean that the verdict can be thrown out. Post-verdict juror interviews can only be used to throw out verdicts if they reveal gross juror misconduct. Juror incompetence is gene
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I did. It took about 30 seconds, from downloading the ebook from Amazon, converting it in Calibre, and pushing it to my Nook. Removing DRM is acceptable for certain personal uses, including, for example, making purchased media usable on yo
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It's from an HN member who's been here for a while. Plus, it is very tangentially related to the linked article. This combination is apparently what makes it okay. But otherwise, I agree with you. Without more context, the comment you ar
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As with most forms of media, the distribution costs are a small fraction of the production costs. Film crews, especially good ones, cost money. Post-production crews, especially good ones, cost money. Actors, even bad ones, cost money. T
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by rprasad 14y ago
Who would have thought that a technology aggregation site would include an article about how a particular item of technology works?
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Trickle-down economics has never worked. People don't become obscenely rich by spending their money; they get to that point by hoarding it. Only a few bastions of wealth are associated with trickle-down economics: NYC, Switzerland; Beverly
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The same way that people are discouraged from making parts for cars, or ingredients for foodstuffs, or... What silly argument were we making again?
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Sounds like some lawmakers would like to deny any professional stature to developers other than the right to be sued, as individuals, for their work. Actually, one of the major features of being a "profession" is that the practitioner is
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Maybe, it depends. What does the app do? If it's just a photo-sharing application, or a weekend project, then no. There's no expectation for the former to be secure, or for the latter to be a full-fledged product that meets standards. On
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Virtually everything we do to help secure applications is extraordinary; it's hard to suggest that a standard of care over security that isn't even consistently practiced by banks and by the military could bind on the developers of photo s
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He's basically asking for an advance directly from his readers. The flipside, of course, is that he must also return this "advance" if no book is made available.
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* there is consensus on what represents "reasonable food safety" procedures. * There really isn't. Food safety laws vary from state to state, and from country to country. The only real common ground is that refrigeration of food is requir
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I think that software is far easier to control than hardware. Physical products, after all, are subject to the infinite vagaries of reality. Yet, somehow we have managed to make sure that physical products work reasonably well and are rea
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Yes. Lawyers need work. But joking aside, developers do need to be held responsible for their work product. Every other industry that makes things is held responsible for the safety/workablity of their output, and many of those products (i
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Clearly there actually are a myriad of strategies which multinationals can use to minimize their tax bill by exploiting differences between countries, and even more clearly those countries with the most favorable tax regimes are the ones c
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Really? Of all the comments on this thread, this is the comment that gets downvoted? If you're going to downvote a statement of fact, at least explain why you think it's wrong.
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Oddly enough, I've found that Samsung tablets really are quite crappy compared to their phones. They must be made by different internal groups, as the difference in quality is absolutely staggering.
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Lol. No, in fact you were the one who tried to "tool" me. You attempted to point out that: Well, if you are an international tax lawyer, obviously moves like the Double Irish show that the base of incorporation matters quite a bit: whic

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