• Lastly, the rule does not apply to rollovers into or out of Qualified Retirement Plans (QRPs) such as a 401(k).

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  • Such taxpayers are generally exempted from the 3.8% Medicare Surtax unless their business either (a) is a passive activity with respect to such taxpayer or (b) is a trade or business involved in trading in financial instruments or commodities.

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  • Parents stop using traditional tongues, thinking it will be better for their children to grow up using a dominant language (such as Swahili in East Africa) or a global one (such as English, Mandarin or Spanish).

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  • But not even a scrupulous, prudent financial industry (if you can imagine such a thing) or a vigilant, honorable government (if you can imagine that, too) can save us from every con man trying to pull a scam.

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  • Society needs a mechanism for sorting out its more intelligent members from its less intelligent ones, just as a track team needs a mechanism (such as a stopwatch) for sorting out the faster athletes from the slower ones.

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  • In addition, they have written statutes and regulations that require taxpayers to prove not only that foreign levies are income taxes but also that no amount of the payment is a fee (such as a royalty) for a specific economic benefit.

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  • Countries where currency has leaked have either started sub-frontloading already (such as Germany or Austria) or they border a country that has (such as the Netherlands).

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  • In other words, new threats are being developed using very sophisticated peer-to-peer programming tools that are targeting not just a certain class of customer or data, but a particular individual (say, a four-star general at the Pentagon) or a specific piece of data (such as the communication algorithms of a particular weapons system).

    FORBES: Connect

  • Well, the iPod hack recorded the IR signals from a remote (such as a Tivo remote) as sound files.

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  • Rather than host shows and compete for traffic, it provides links to an episode's location, be it free on a network site (such as CBS or ABC) or for a fee (on sites like Netflix and Amazon).

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  • Each country would pledge a specified tax (such as a VAT surcharge) to provide the cash.

    ECONOMIST: The future of the European Union

  • Susan Patton never questions the norm that women should "marry up" -- and by extension, men should marry "down" -- on a variety of dimensions, including education, accomplishment and age. (Nor does she question the assumption that mate choice is universally heterosexual, but that is a topic for another debate.) Yet a thorough gender revolution means questioning such assumptions about how women (and men) select a life partner.

    CNN: Women, don't marry young

  • Given the overwhelming negative customer feedback regarding industry leaders, such as ADT (a subsidiary of Tyco International), on sites such as Hellopeter.com (90% unfavorable), it is apparent that there is room-for-improvement in the industry.

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  • Consequently, in the Commission's view, section 405(a)(14) of IRFA, 22 U.S.C. 6445(a)(14), gives you power now to raise such a barrier in the form of a prohibition against the purchase of China bonds by U.S. financial institutions such as underwriters, pension plans or mutual funds.

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  • No decision can be taken against Ms Thanou and in relation to point (a) if there is any evidence, which supports point (a), such evidence must be presented against Ms Thanou, so she could be able to counter it.

    BBC: Exchange of letters between Thanou and IOC

  • This can be just the result of the excess pressure placed on the nerve or it can also be caused by neck or back trauma, a herniated disk in the spine, or a mass (such as a tumor or infection).

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  • Will you say that living in a world where individuals not only want to protect their property from thieves, but also from the environment (such as fires), is a lesser value than the destruction of it (the purpose of firefighters)?

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  • V:port also has a music-on-demand service and a selection of games, some of which (such as a trivia quiz) support multi-user play between passengers.

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  • Pay attention to certain keywords (such as a product, business name, etc.) and keep tabs by utilizing a service such as Social Mention (socialmention.com) or Openbook (youropenbook.org).

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  • Their method was based on the observation that electrical currents will be induced in a conductor (such as water) when it is faced with a magnetic field that varies over time.

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  • But take a shirt and turn it into an image (a promise of hipness, say), aim it at a specific customer segment (such as young Filipinos in Hong Kong), and display it to them in the right setting and with enthusiastic service, and you have both differentiation and a winning business model.

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  • Interestingly, the finance ministers of several important U.S. allies (notably the United Kingdom and the Netherlands) object to such a transfer of risk to governments and taxpayers (including through the IMF and World Bank) that is a feature of the Brady Debt Reduction Plan for developing countries.

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  • Sainsbury (a British-based supermarket group), Harrods (a London shop), Fairmont Raffles (a hotel chain) and chunks of banks such as Credit Suisse, Barclays and Santander.

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  • Using such trusts a grantor (parent) can pay income tax on trust income accumulating for the benefit of children and descendants.

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  • If, like Carla, you have a workplace retirement plan, such as a 401(k), check to see whether your employer matches the money you contribute.

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  • Generally, royalty income which is paid for the right to use intangible property (such as a likeness) is sourced where the property is used or is granted the privilege of being used.

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  • The company has lurched from one strategy to another, such as a (subsequently aborted) investment in Nextel Communications, a wireless firm, in 1994 and an on-off alliance with Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation in 1995.

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  • Not only does it feature key capabilities that Apple has yet to ever integrate (such as a keyboard), but Surface will undoubtedly make it easier for curent Windows users to transition from home to office and in-between.

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  • Remedy: When we make a major decision such as accepting (or turning down) a job offer, we tend to exercise confirmation bias.

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