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...southeast of Lyudinovo. She wants to borrow 30,000 rubles - just over $1,000. The woman taking her call fills in the details on a screen. Experienced call-center workers can process a request and grant pre-approval in under six minutes, but Kumyiny can't remember her zip code, which slows everything down. Watching over the process is deputy operations director Viktoriya Selezneva, who says the economic crisis has yet to arrive. "The volume of calls hasn't decreased for us," she says. But then, the Christmas season - the busiest time for consumer loans - is approaching fast. And should...
While the $700 billion bailout has been the focus of attention and scrutiny, the Internal Revenue Service and lawmakers have been quietly making changes to the tax code and how it is followed in an effort to further boost the financial strength of ailing companies. At the same time, though, the changes drain billions of dollars of badly needed tax revenue when the federal deficit is mushrooming. Many of the changes may lower corporate-tax revenue for years to come...
...rule would be eligible for losses that occurred in 2008 or 2009. That means a company with a large enough loss, after the proposed rebate, could effectively not pay taxes for seven years. Senator Olympia Snowe, a Republican from Maine, has proposed a similar change to the tax code in the Senate, but only for small businesses...
...nature, but - another discovery of Dead Sea Scrolls significance excepted - relics cannot shed much light on whether we can put any trust in the truth of the New Testament. It seems to me that the great vehemence with which the Vatican attacked Dan Brown's fictional work The DaVinci Code was not because of concern about his story, but because the idea behind it illuminated, with exceptional clarity, the very real possibility that, whatever the truth may be, it may not be what we have been told by the Roman Catholic Church. And this is hardly a minor issue, since...
...Rangel might be looking for a shovel these days. The flurries started last summer as a series of embarrassing revelations. Among them was the fact that Rangel was occupying four rent-controlled apartments simultaneously in upper Manhattan and that his tax returns - Rangel is the chairman of the tax-code-writing House Ways and Means Committee - were such a mess that he was hiring a "forensic auditor" to figure out why he had failed to report $75,000 in rental income from a villa in the Dominican Republic. Adding to the tangle of questions was the fact that even...