This is almost never the case for cash method taxpayers (most of us tend to be cash method which means we report income when we receive it).

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And when we do receive those, you know, sometimes they're problematic.

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"When we carry out major improvements or checks, inevitably people are more likely to receive radiation, " Mr. Kobayashi said.

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When we look beyond the issue of accessibility to the quality of education our children receive -- after all it should be fit for purpose -- the region has among the lowest education requirements for teachers, with 50% of countries requiring lower secondary school teachers to have completed no higher than a secondary education (so teachers have barely more education that their students).

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What we cannot dispute, however, is that when offenders from one class of society receive harsher treatment than offenders from another class, the integrity of our entire judicial system suffers.

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We American voters might respond that most of us do not receive automatic inflation adjustments to our earnings and we are expected to tighten our belts when times are tough and our personal debt has gotten out of control.

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