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...scandal has rocked Italy and is prompting calls for more reform in a country famous for family entrepreneurs and infamous for the chaotic structure of their companies. The latter keeps the taxman at bay, but it's one reason Italian companies have had difficulty attracting foreign capital. Parmalat was supposed to be different. Tanzi got his start in business as a 21-year-old, when his father died and he took over the family's small prosciutto-ham factory. On a trip to Sweden, he noticed milk packaged in cartons and brought the concept to Italy. Later he adopted...
...move, which will have its first reading in the Bundestag in early summer, will raise Germany's low percentage of self-employed, 9.3%, to the European average of 12.3% and reduce the number of people who work in these professions but don't declare their income to the taxman. So far, so good. But critics think it's strange - and possibly futile - to single out the Meisterbrief when the real causes of the country's economic stagnation lie elsewhere. "We have no lack of potentially self-employed persons," argues Dieter Philipp, president of the National Federation of German Skilled Crafts...
Independent nominee for Governor Tim Penny and Democrat Roger Moe are "Taxman and Roger" in an ad portraying them as Batman and Robin. "Holy tax increases," yelps a Robinesque voice. Republican Tim Pawlenty appears as Superman with an antitax emblem on his shirt...
...foremost, will always be thought of as a member of the Beatles. He was their lead guitarist, "the quiet Beatle," and a sometimes frustrated songwriter suffering under the shadow of the great team of John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Still, Harrison produced his share of classic Beatle tunes, including "Taxman," "Here Comes the Sun," "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," and "Something." Any single one of those songs would guarantee an artist immortality on VH1 and classic radio stations worldwide. "I wouldn't say that my songs are autobiographical," Harrison said. "?Taxman' is perhaps. Some of them were later on, after...
...budget fight, there's always one more battle. "Clearly, in the Finance Committee we will not get what we want to become law because we don't have the votes," pro-Bush taxman Phil Gramm (R-TX) said of the fine-tuning ahead. "So we'll do the best we can, pass it on the floor and fix it in (House-Senate) conference...