Teresa O’Sullivan says 2019-20 fire season ‘unprecedented in scale and intensity’ when delivering findings regarding 25 deathsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastNew rules for the use of firefighting aircraft, better alert systems and remodelling risk classifications are among the recommendations from a coronial inquiry into the black summer bushfires in New South Wales.The state coroner, Teresa...
President Biden, amping up a populist pitch in his re-election campaign, has repeatedly said he would raise taxes on the wealthy and corporations to make them pay their “fair share.” Republicans say Mr. Biden has “an unquenchable thirst for taxing the American people.” His Republican opponent in the election, former President Donald J. Trump, said recently that Mr. Biden was “going to give you the greatest, biggest, ugliest tax hike in the history of our country.” So it might come as a surprise...
Joe Biden wants to raise corporate taxes a trillion dollars over the next decade. Not a dime of that increase will go to cutting the budget deficit. That shouldn't surprise anyone who listens to Biden's economic populist mantra of getting corporations to pay their "fair share" of taxes.
(The Center Square) – Chicago residents were asked during Tuesday's primary election whether the city should change the way it assesses real estate transfer taxes on the sale of higher-valued property for the stated purpose of addressing homelessness. Voters appear to have rejected the tax increase referendum in Tuesday's primary. Chicago already levies some of the highest commercial real estate property taxes in the nation. Cornel Darden, the Chicago Southland Black Chamber of...
Tranter was giving evidence to the cross-party UK parliament Culture, Media and Sport (CMS) Committee investigation into British film and high-end TV.
Biden’s proposed changes to the tax code, if adopted by Congress, could make it more expensive to take the jet.
Every citizen should be concerned about the 2024 election of our next president.
The Budget did little to move the polls, but it included some fundamental philosophical changes to the way we pay tax. Expect unintended consequences, says Tim Sarson Budgets are fleeting spectacles. Like a passing squall they arrive with a few gusts of media speculation, dominate the news for a week at most, then blow themselves []
Apple CEO Tim Cook was on a China charm offensive Wednesday ahead of a new flagship Shanghai store opening, weeks after a report suggested the company's sales in the country slumped at the start of 2024. Cook posted a video compilation on Chinese social media platform Weibo that featured him
A patent Apple filed in September 2022 has just been approved today, and it showcases a system of shock limiters and dampers to improve camera reliability. [Read More]
Chief Executive Stephen Scherr would step down on March 31 to be succeeded by Gil West, a former executive at Delta Airlines and General Motors’ Cruise unit, effective April 1, the company said.
Ireland agreed on Wednesday to sign up to new EU rules designed to share out the cost and work of hosting migrants and also launched a fresh bid to overhaul how it accommodates arrivals following protests around the country. Immigration has shot up the political agenda in Ireland after more