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Congress is moving to make those tax losses even more valuable. Typically, when a company loses money, it can apply for a refund of the taxes it has paid on profits over the past two years. However, Congress is moving closer to extending the so-called tax loss carryback provision to five years, instead of two. Senate majority leader Harry Reid recently threw his support behind the extension of the tax refund, adding it to a bill that would extend unemployment benefits. On Nov. 2, the Senate voted to close debate on the bill, which means a final vote...
Both Johns Hopkins and Andover were paid by Columbia Pictures for the shoots. According to “The Phillipian,” Andover’s student newspaper, Andover was paid $20,000. Johns Hopkins would not disclose its payment...
...There are possibly hundreds of millions of dollars that have been paid to taxpayers who are not entitled to the credit," said Representative John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat, while chairing a House committee earlier this month. Still, Stuart Saft, a partner at Dewey & LeBoeuf, thinks the tax-credit program can be cleaned up without eliminating it. "It's a question of monitoring its use more closely...
...Pushing the issue to the courts, however, has paid uneven dividends for gay-marriage supporters. While courts have followed Massachusetts' lead in Vermont, New Hampshire, Iowa, Connecticut and California, voters who have had a chance to weigh in have uniformly rejected that thinking...
...divert attention from a series of high-profile political scandals in recent months, such as the accusations of nepotism surrounding a bid by President Nicolas Sarkozy's son to attain a public post and the allegations that the French Culture Minister Frédéric Mitterrand paid for sex with boys in Thailand. Besson was also highly criticized himself for ordering an illegal refugee camp near Calais to be razed in September, and three Afghans be deported back to their war-torn country. "Shaken by a series of political scandals that have thrust the FN back onto the stage...