You omit to mention the threats from changes to technology and tax.
Proposals the tech industry is considering range from the appointment of a deputy mayor for information technology to tax incentives that are aimed at making the city more attractive to companies.
Last year, the world's first space tourist, Dennis Tito, made a plea to Congress that as a potential investor in suborbital craft he was not looking to government for funding, technology, tax credits or loan guarantees.
James S. Henry is a leading economist, attorney and investigative journalist who has written extensively about global development, economic, technology, and tax issues.
The fact is automated sales tax technology freely available utilizes the very same technologies currently employed by twitter, UPS, FedEx and so many other application greatly simplifying business demands creating new efficiencies and free market competition.
Bolstering technology and science requires tax and regulatory liberalization, and vigorous market competition among ideas for private funding.
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America presently leads the world in medical device technology, but this tax will stifle expansion and life-enhancing advances.
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The finding comes from a lengthy investigation into the technology giant's tax practices by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, led by Sen.
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The disclosure follows a lengthy examination of the technology giant's tax practices by the U.S. Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which is expected to air its findings at a hearing on Tuesday.
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Pre-tax income in Technology Services rose 7%, while Business Services was even stronger, up 17%.
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It offered tax breaks to technology investors and attracted foreign aid.
Internet technology and changes in federal tax rules--plus the realization by nonprofits that transparency encourages donations--make it easier than ever to get solid information about nonprofits.
We should not target new sources of tax revenues at the expense of our technology industries that grow our economy, create jobs, and contribute tax revenues many times over the amount achieved by changing the tax on carried interest.
Many technology companies utilize IP companies in tax free states and tax haven countries too.
Obamacare alone is frightening enough, with its powerful disincentives for many companies to provide full-time jobs, its new tax on the important technology sector of medical devices and on and on.
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Michelle Esterman, Altisource's chief financial officer, said the company based itself in Luxembourg to be in a time zone closer to its employees in India, where a majority of its workforce is located, as well as the tax benefits afforded to technology companies by the western European nation.
From next year taxi drivers will be offered tax incentives to use electric technology.
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Charles Schumer carp about the Chinese and how they are stealing jobs and beating us in clean technology investment because of unfair subsidies and tax breaks.
You know government employees must harness new ideas and technology to remake our government revamp our tax code, reform our schools, and empower our citizens with the skills they need to work harder, learn more, and reach higher.
So we must harness new ideas and technology to remake our government, revamp our tax code, reform our schools, and empower our citizens with the skills they need to work harder, learn more, reach higher.
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People may argue that the complexity of the tax law is simply a product of technology and the politics of vested interests.
Desperate, Ireland cut income tax rates by 15% and courted technology companies.
Still, I have spent a good portion of the subsequent 28 years fending off efforts by Hollywood and the music industry to restrict, tax or ban perfectly safe and useful technology.
Although the zone's tax breaks are guaranteed in Brazil's constitution until 2013 (local politicians are lobbying for an extension to 2023), their relative advantages may be eroded rather sooner: Congress recently voted to continue a scheme that offers similar tax breaks to makers of information-technology products in all areas of Brazil.
Technology is easily capable of handling any amount of sales tax jurisdictions.
Malloy announced that ESPN would receive millions of dollars in state tax breaks with the construction of a digital technology building and the addition of at least 200 jobs over five years.
Some say, though, that this is fool's gold: that auctions are a damaging tax on one of the few high-technology industries in which Europe has a lead over the United States (see article).
Recycling energy falls under the category of combined heat and power, which generates and uses both electricity and thermal heat-a technology that is now eligible to receive 10 percent investment tax credits from the U.S. government.
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