Currently, many states exclude service providers from sales and use taxes. However, a number of state lawmakers have begun to re-examine the exclusion of service from sales tax liability because they realize that a potentially large source of revenues is going uncollected. So as you might expect...
To receive status as a qualifying facility (QF) under the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA), the facility must produce electric energy and "another form of useful thermal energy through the sequential use of energy," and meet certain ownership, operating, and efficiency criteria establ...
On Dec. 3, 2024, a federal district court in Texas suspended the enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) and its beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting requirements. However, the federal government appealed this ruling. While businesses are not currently required to file BOI r...
Currently, the US has seven federal income tax brackets with the rates: 10%, 12%, 22%, 24%, 32%, 35% and 37%. If you are one of those lucky individuals who earns enough to fall in the 37% tax bracket, you should know that your entire income would not be subject to a 37% ta...
Texas and New York have entirely different resources, cultures and economy.” Abel argued, “But that variety produces a fragmented policy response. State representatives are easily influenced by well-funded interest groups and dominant voting constituencies that want to bend the rules in their favor...
We use the terms interchangeably. From the definition of useful work (3.4), Y is an increasing function of energy production. Let p be the average price per unit of energy, and q be the quantity of energy (includ‑ ing food) produced in some unit. We define YE d=ef pq ⊂ Y (...
income tax positions; by definition, it does not apply to sales, use, property, intangible, orvalue-addedtaxes. It applies to any income tax in any jurisdiction, whether it is federal, state, local, or foreign income tax, and it applies to any entity that might be subject to incometax....
G. Increasing Disparities in Unhealthy Food Advertising Targeted to Hispanic and Black Youth (Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity, University of Connecticut; Drexel University; Salud America!, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, 2019). World Health Organization. Noncommunicable...
As a California beekeeper, I was never that interested in serious honey production (a number of commercial beekeepers here don’t even own honey extractors, since we derive our income from bee sales and pollination contracts). Over the years I had developed a simple system in which I nuked ...
enterprises (SOEs) in terms of access to financing, even though private enterprises overwhelmingly outperform SOEs by the number of firms, profit margin, export ratios, rate of net assets, and their contribution to GDP, tax revenue, employment, and their amount of financing to the outstanding ...