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...Committee on College Life (CCL) voted unanimously yesterday morning to recommend the repeal of a newly-imposed Faculty of Arts and Sciences tax on donations to the Harvard Gift Fund...
Money given to the tax-deductible gift fund generally comes from alumni and passes to designated student groups. While the tax was set at five percent this year, it will increase to 15 percent within the next three years. The Undergraduate Council (UC) estimates that the tax will add nearly $20,000 to the coffers of FAS, which faces a projected $75 million operating deficit...
...reason for the tax is that FAS wants more money,” said Ryan A. Petersen ’08, chair of the UC’s Student Advisory Committee and a student member of the CCL, a joint advisory committee of administrators, faculty, and students...
...also voted unanimously earlier this month to repeal the gift tax. UC members argued that the tax unfairly took money out of the hands of student groups...
...subversion in Soviet days. Kondaurov is now a member of the Duma's Communist Party faction, and campaigns tirelessly on behalf of his friend and former employer, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who once headed Yukos, Russia's biggest private oil company. Khodorkovsky is currently in jail after having been convicted on tax evasion and fraud charges that he says are bogus. "I'm amazed at myself," says Kondaurov. "A former kgb major-general, and yes, I do feel I'm a dissident now." He says that many former colleagues equate him with Pyotr Grygorenko, a top Soviet officer who was expelled from...