The purchase price reflected Mr. Erbey's documented cost basis in the property and was within the market value range provided by anindependent third-party appraiser.
The independent counsel statute calls for the Justice Department to respond within 30 days to explain whether there is a basis to launch a "preliminary inquiry, " the first step toward seeking anindependent counsel.
The latter is calculated on the basis of the rise in median earnings on the island, following a recommendation by anindependent panel tasked with assessing States members' pay.
Where an employer has consistently treated workers as independent contractors for employment tax purposes, and there has been a reasonable basis for such treatment, then, under Section 530 of the Revenue Act of 1978, reclassification of the workers as employees for purposes of federal employment taxes shall only have prospective effect.
When the industry's ever-larger ranks of independent researchers find exploitable vulnerabilities in software, they're forced to price their discoveries on an ad hoc basis with no sense of fair market value.