Mr Sarkozy threatened to legislate to enforce these, but he has since accepted a form of self-regulation in the shape of a code of good governance for companies.
After all, there is a fair amount of consensus that simplifying the corporate tax code is a good idea, that broadening the base and lowering the rate is a good idea.
The increased diplomatic activity is a good sign, and should urgently focus on hammering out a code of conduct in the disputed seas and airspace that can help prevent armed miscalculations.
They worked with a few contractors and Good even got his mother (a programer herself who taught him code when he was seven) to help out.
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Amusingly, you also get to see all the comments left by the devs in the code, guaranteeing a few good chuckles from others who can relate.
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The government said it wanted a simpler, fairer code and it would let good schools expand more easily.
And if the committee can produce tax reform that raises revenues and contributes to deficit reduction but simplifies the tax code, that would also be a good thing.
Reversing the situation, I doubt the engineer would be comfortable with the product owner tweaking code because they felt like they had a good idea.
Merely by signing up to a leisurely process of making good, any landowners who had violated the code before July 2008 would be regarded as in compliance.
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But as my colleague Ashlea Ebeling explains in a story here in Forbes about smart tax moves for the next two years, an immediate SUV write off is allowed again under a different, even more generous provision of the tax code, good through Dec. 31, 2011.
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But Education Minister Lord Hill said changes to the schools admissions code in England would ensure pupils were offered a place at a "good" and "popular" school.
You can make a pretty good argument that software has contributed to the current junky state of the tax code by allowing Congress to pile on complex provisions (requiring lots of new worksheets, forms and calculations) without facing a full-scale taxpayer revolt.
Entrepreneurs are trustworthy because they accept a moral code of testability and falsifiability rather than one based on sentiment, sanctimony, good intentions, good press, good luck, good looks or guarantees.
Ancient civilizations, and cracking the code of long-lost languages is usually the reserve of Hollywood, or a good old-fashioned book.
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Of course there are separate and powerful arguments for letting people who know how to invest wisely keep what they make so they can make more good investments, but Americans for Tax Reform does not exist to help rich people exploit a byzantine tax code.
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