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...contracted financial manager for a non-profit religious organization affiliated with a local university. A Middlesex Grand Jury charged him late last week with forgery, uttering, 11 counts of larceny over $250, 2 counts of larceny by continuous scheme, and 5 counts of failure to file income tax returns, according to the release...
Hillel had $8.2 million in net assets as of June 30, 2007, according to its most recent publicly available tax filings. That year, Hillel took in nearly $3 million in total revenue while fielding nearly $2 million in expenses...
...separated commercial banking from other financial endeavors. By the time Congress repealed the law in 1999, it seemed utterly out of step with the times, but now many economists are wondering if there is something to the idea of separating risky financial activities from essential ones. Or we could tax financial transactions, a policy suggested as far back as 1929 by Virginia Senator Carter Glass (he of the Glass-Steagall Act) and now identified most closely with the late Yale economist James Tobin. In the 1970s, Tobin proposed a tax on currency trades to throw "sand in the wheels...
...Tuesday, Obama himself sounded almost resigned that taxing health benefits is now front and center in the health-care debate. "This is something that's going to be debated in the House and the Senate," he told the Virginia audience. "[Virginia Senator] Mark Warner is going to have to weigh in on it. We're all going to have to weigh in on it." The President says he still wouldn't go as far as McCain proposed and completely eliminate the current exclusion on taxation of employer-provided health benefits. (McCain would have offset that with a tax credit...
...major reason lawmakers are considering taxing these benefits for the first time: there's a lot of money involved. Depending on how it is structured, a tax on the most expensive benefits could bring in hundreds of billions of dollars over the next 10 years, the Congressional Budget Office has estimated. But it would be a politically treacherous move that would not affect only the wealthy. Many of those generous health plans are also part of union contracts - and in many cases were negotiated in lieu of higher wages - which means Obama might have to go back on his campaign...