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According to current law, taxpayers must calculate their taxes two ways--under the regular federal income-tax schedule and under the alternative-tax scheme--and pay the higher of the two. About 2.4 million taxpayers will be subject to the AMT this year, says Nina Olson, the IRS's National Taxpayer Advocate, who heads an independent office created to address taxpayers' problems. The way the AMT law was written, the tax will apply to more and more taxpayers--an estimated 30 million by 2010. Says Olson: "It's a time bomb...
...trainer for San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds; REMI KORCHEMNY, 71, prominent track coach; and JAMES VALENTE, 49, and VICTOR CONTE JR., 53, executives of a nutritional-supplements supplier; on 42 counts, including conspiracy to distribute steroids and money laundering, in what federal prosecutors allege was an elaborate scheme to provide performance-enhancing drugs to professional baseball, football and track-and-field athletes; in San Francisco...
Delay Takes Its Toll Made in Germany " no longer appears to be a label of engineering excellence. Last week, German Transport Minister Manfred Stolpe canceled the government's €5.4 billion contract for a high-tech motorway toll scheme for trucks after the system operator, Toll Collect, failed to solve technical problems with the trucks' onboard GPS units. The decision to abandon the ill-fated venture - it was scheduled to start in August 2003 before being postponed - is an embarrassment for the top players behind it. Deutsche Telekom and DaimlerChrysler had banked on the system as a possible export. Since...
...entry but says he saw a degree lifelessness in its starkness. “I think all of us kind of had our eyes wide open but were also looking for things to see if they validated our own predilections. And I was sort of looking for a scheme that boldly forested the site. That somehow said a forest is a healing thing...it opens our imagination,” says Van Valkenburgh...
...White House, being fed a venison chop and fruit-tart souffle, when he was asked ever so politely whether he could just take the whole Iraq mess off the U.S.'s hands. Bush is sticking to his July 1 deadline for transferring power to the Iraqis through a complex scheme of 18 regional caucuses--a plan hatched in November without the U.N. in the room. But Shi'ites are holding out for direct elections, and the Iraqi Governing Council suggests that it expand from 25 to 125 members so it could stay around a while longer, though the likelihood...