June 16, 2010
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Ukraine’s new Prime Minister, Mykola Azarov has announced his government’s intention, in a revised tax code, to slash the country’s corporate income tax rate starting 2011, and then further on a transitional basis through 2014 to enhance the nation’s economic performance and fiscal attractiveness.
According to the Prime Minister, the corporate income tax will be cut from 25% to 20% in 2011, and cut 1% annually from then on, until 2014 when the rate will stand at 17%. The Value Added Tax is to also to be reduced on a progressive basis over a similar timescale.
Explaining the government’s methodology, Azarov was quoted by the national radio station NCRU as saying: “This innovative document is a real tax reform that will improve the investment climate in Ukraine and will improve the nation’s attractiveness for conducting business.” » Read more: Ukraine Cuts Taxes
May 4, 2010
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The bill, authored by Rep. Lucrecia Aranda, half had the sanction of Deputies, then unanimously and was approved within hours of losing parliamentary state. For senators, the project received a positive vote of an overwhelming majority, as it only accounted for one abstention. Strictly speaking, the law passed today repeals articles 83, 87 and 93 Fault Code (provincial law number 10 703). Article 83 refers to “offensive to modesty,” the 87 to “prostitution scandal” and 93 a “travesty”. Specifically, Article 87 penaba to arrest anyone who “publicly he offer sex for money or promise of remuneration or provokes outrage on that occasion.” Also who pursued “in public places or open-access local propositions doeth manifestly dishonest or offered sex with other people.” In such cases an arrest was expected up to thirty days, which could reach sixty days if the offer involving minors. » Read more: Act not to pursue prostitution in santa fe
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The objective is to determine whether the Canadian Omar Khadr, known as the “child soldier” and it takes 8 years at Guantanamo since he was arrested at age 15 in Afghanistan, was tortured into confessing the murder of some Americans abroad, reported DPA news agency. Under a new law passed during the Obama administration, evidence obtained by inhumane treatment can not be used in military courts.
Khadr be brought to trial in July, which will be the first to one of the controversial military tribunals in time of Obama created by his predecessor, George W. Bush.
Canadian accused of killing a U.S. soldier with a hand grenade in 2002 during a fight in Afghanistan. During the hearing up to two weeks, will decide whether prosecutors can use in the process a series of confessions of guilt by the youth, who already has 23 years, as evidence. Proponents claim that these confessions were extracted under torture. Eric Montalvo”s defense attorney explainede44that in 2002 the U.S. » Read more: “Child soldier” Afghanistan faces military court guantanamo
April 28, 2010
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He said the paper #8220, El Mercurio #8221; that #8220; serve education campaigns, but not enough to generate dramatic changes. But a tax hike is an effective measure, so we have to evaluate it #8221;. PDP Two Chilean deputies (center left), which agreed with the possible extent stated that this tax could be 20% and applied to foods that they increase sodium like raw chicken or sweets. What does he think ordinary people?
The response of the Chilean has not been long in coming. Representatives of both facilities and customer rejected this initiative. Delano Gabriel, who owns a restaurant in the southern country, the Chilean newspaper said that it seemed “as an absolute nonsense, because you can not define what junk food and what not.” “Such a move would greatly increase our costs,” said marketing manager of KFC chain in Santiago, Sandra Devillaine. “If we want to combat obesity, we encourage the exercise or educate people, bueb1t not restrict what we eat.” As pointed out by a wire agency AFP, a diner was interviewed for an fast food establishment, while having lunch with sausage bread with mayonnaise, mustard and fries. » Read more: In Chile, diners and restaurants may reject junk food tax
April 27, 2010
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Belgian King Albert II on Monday accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Yves Leterme its government five months, plunging the country into a crisis that could jeopardize the recovery of the economy and its position in Europe. The monarch asked Leterme, 49, to stay in his job as interim staff, the royal palace said in a short statement, four days after the coalition collapsed over a dispute between French-speaking parties in Holland. King had tried to alleviate the situation before the weekend to consult with party leaders and asking the Finance Minister Didier Reynders, who tried mediate the dispute. Reynders asked to be relieved of that task on Monday. Unless the king announced a new initiative, Belgium seems to go to early elections before those scheduled for 2011. That could plunge into chaos preparations for its six-month presidency of the European Union, starting in July. » Read more: Belgian king accepts resignation of Prime Minister Leterme
April 26, 2010
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Dozens of people shouted “murderer, murderer” and threw earth to pass the hearse that carried the remains from the funeral Schaefer dependent on the charity Hogar de Cristo, where they were veiled, to the Mountain Memorial Park Cemetery in Santiago Puente Alto commune. Inside the hearse accompanied the body only Schaefer her adopted daughter, Rebecca, who kept a strict silence on the press and asked that the burial of trader take place in a private ceremony, reported ANSA news agencies and DPA. Paul Schaefer, a former Nazi officer, he served for three decades leader of the so-called Colonia Dignidad, an enclave of 17,000 hectares located 343 kilometers south of Santiago. There, they were constantly violated the rights of more than 300 settlers who inhabited the place, which also operated as a torture center during the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet (1973-90). Legal Research of the last 20 years revealed that in Colonia Dignidad children were sexually abused and separated from their parents by the leaders of the enclave. After years as a fugitive, Schaefer was arrested in Argentina on March 10, 2005 and detained in Chile since 2006, until Saturday died of respiratory failure caused by heart disease. » Read more: Schaefer bury Nazi war criminal in Santiago after rejection cabbage
April 25, 2010
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The global financial leaders on Saturday rushed to secure aid for Greece in debt, while Canada warned that some European countries feared that 45.00 million in consideration for the Hellenic country are not sufficient. Talks on Greece dominated the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank, a day after the country yield to market pressure and requested a rescue package of 45,000 million euros (60,500 million) collected by the European Union and the IMF. “Some countries think it is not enough,” he told reporters Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty when he asked about the amount of the aid package that is negotiated for Greece. “Some of the countries of the Group of 20, including some European countries,” he said, when asked which countries were concerned. “There is concern that the package be sure enough that”s a one time event,” he said. Flaherty said the consensus of the G-20 was that the crisis in Greece could be contained, if it is faced with quickly, with little risk of spread throughout Europe. The IMF chief, Dominique Strauss-Kahn declined to speak of Greece despite repeated questions press. He said the package details will be available only after the negotiations are completed antennas. In previous hours, the finance minister of Greece, George Papaconstantinou, met with Secretary of U.S. Treasury, Timothy Geithner, who stressed the need for rapid response to the crisis. “The Secretary Geithner encouraged them to move quickly to implement a strong package of reforms and substantial support Financial Specifically, the Treasury said in a statement released shortly after. market fears that Greece could suspend payments on debt and budget problems are worse in other economies the euro area and Portugal and Spain, have cast a shadow over the IMF meetings in Washington. » Read more: Greece rushes rescue, some fear is not sufficient
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BRUSSELS /MADRID (Reuters) – European authorities took the airline crisis to accelerate a project that seeks to control the airspace, but seemed less interested in helping airlines to pay the costs generated by the cloud of volcanic ash. European Transport Commissioner, Siim Kallas, will present next week recommendations included a week of air chaos, which the aviation industry generated revenue losses of $ 1,700 million, despite it also saved 600 million dollars in costs as fuel. Unify European airspace will probably be the first in the list of proposals aimed at a meeting of transport ministers of the EU will be held on May 4. “We need a rapid and coordinated European response to such crises,” Kallas told reporters in Brussels. “Instead, we have a fragmented mosaic of national air space 27. Without a central regulator, Europe was operating with one hand behind his back,” he said. While the ash cloud from of an Icelandic volcano remained on Europe, countries that in theory, faced similar levels of risk to their aircraft, opened or closed its airspace in different ways and at different times. The Kallas predecessors1000had tried to join the European airspace during the last decade under a “single sky”, which would link the national airspace 27 in one by June 2012. “No think we can afford to wait that long, “said Kallas. “I want to start working to accelerate the project of a single sky,” he said. Previous efforts have been hampered by the reluctance to relinquish control by member states. The law seeks to establish cross-border airspace blocks and a new regulatory framework to meet the operational requirements of the industry, passengers and regulators, as well as the needs of airlines, instead national borders. » Read more: EU calls for united behind ash airspace
April 24, 2010
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Municipal Control Undersecretary Adrian Alveolites and Secretary for Decentralization Bonifatti Santiago reported that the system is now operational in Port delegation and headquarters of the Automobile Club Argentino (ACA) and will also be available from tomorrow in Independence and Roca. For the next few days the customer service to process the license will open in the northern part of the ejido, and likewise in the delegation Batan. The infrastructure for the card can be completed in those five places was maintained by the mayor, Gustavo Pulti, officials said. Alveolites explained that “the requirements for obtaining a license are the same as ever, only now the data of applicant will check the on-line database of the Provincial Road Safety Policy and Provincial (Dppsv), where confirm if the person is qualified or not to drive. ” printing licenses “will be centralized in the print shops of the Department of Prints and State Gazette (Dieb)&1000;quot;, in La Plata, and will be remitted to the municipality for subsequent delivery to applicant, he said. For now, the process involves a delay of 3-7 days, so that the process must begin within 30 days prior to expiration of the license and not beyond 7 days prior to “allow time for the arrival of the new card,” he said. » Read more: Mar del plata processed in the new driver”s license
April 23, 2010
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The new bill, introduced today by the Federal Reserve chairman, Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will be put into circulation on February 10, 2011 and will replace the previous design, which will remain legal, but was withdrawn from the market gradually. coin is the most traveled outside the United States, two thirds of its total circulation, and the most persecuted by counterfeiters, according to the Department Treasury. There are an estimated 6,500 million banknotes in circulation. To stop them, the U.S. government has worked for over a decade in design elements that identify the authenticity of more visible and obvious, and to provide the role of more sophisticated technology. So, the face of one of the founding fathers of the United States, Benjamin Franklin, is maintained, but a little large and without the circle around him since 1914, when it first appeared. Around appears the pen with the signing of the Declaration of Independence and a few sentences of this text, and in the center, joins a blue ribbon safety 3-D effect, showing numbers bells and 100 when the banknote is tilted. A new image of the symbolic “Liberty Bell” the “liberty bell” which sounded to call the citizens of Philadelphia in 1776 and the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence, is presented in an inkwell and green copper changes with movement , as if he disappeared. In the back, the image of “Independence Hall, the building where the Declaration was signed, has been drawn again enlarged the circle without and around her back instead of the main facade. Other brands of authenticity, which remain of the earlier design of 1996 is a watermark to the right of portrait Benjamin Franklin, the security thread and color change of a number 100. » Read more: The $ 100 bill designa8cchanges to thwart counterfeiters