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...degrees, the snow feels more like Sno-Cone crystals than real powder and there are no lifts?just an escalator that takes skiers partway up the slope. Still, a Yinqixing spokesman says the facility has recorded 500,000 visits since opening in 2002. One such customer is Shanghai native Gao Rujin, who recently brought her 6-year-old son to enjoy the indoor winter wonderland. "When I was a child, I never had opportunities like this," she says as she straps on the boy's rented skis. "I want to cultivate a spirit of adventure in my son by exposing...
...cheats deprive the federal government of hundreds of billion of dollars in much-needed revenue each year. But many of those cheats actually work for the federal government as contractors, according to prepared testimony being given to the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee Tuesday by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the auditing arm of Congress. In fact, more than 3,800 contractors that do business with the General Services Administration have tax debts totaling about $1.4 billion The GSA is the giant organization that spends about $20 billion annually to provide other agencies in the federal government with practically everything they...
...GAO review of Internal Revenue Service records and GSA contracts for 2004 and 2005 found that about 10% of the vendors under contract with the agency, or over 3,800, had cheated on their taxes. In most cases, the scofflaws didn't pay their corporate income tax or company owners lined their pockets with the IRS payroll taxes they'd collected from their employees for Social Security, Medicare and individual income taxes. One contractor who provided $1 million worth of security services to the federal government from 2003 to 2005 also had unpaid taxes of over $9 million; the owner...
...degrees, the snow feels more like Sno-Cone crystals than real powder and there are no lifts-just an escalator that takes skiers partway up the slope. Still, a Yinqixing spokesman says the facility has recorded 500,000 visits since opening in 2002. One such customer is Shanghai native Gao Rujin, who recently brought her 6-year-old son to enjoy the indoor winter wonderland. "When I was a child, I never had opportunities like this," she says as she straps on the boy's rented skis. "I want to cultivate a spirit of adventure in my son by exposing...
...doesn’t upset me,” said Cheng Gao ’08, an economics concentrator. “There is an Ec 10 explanation for why this happens. The airline industry does it, the book industry does it. They charge difference prices for different people...