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Microsoft Exec: Consumers Need to Pay More Taxes

7 March 2010

What if the head of Coca-Cola suggested a tax on sugary sodas to combat increasing instances of obesity? Or if the big three automakers heralded an increase in the gas tax as a way of repairing our highways? It would leave a lot of us scratching our heads.
That’s why many IT folks were left [...]

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Fix the Tax Code Friday: Tax Breaks for Investments

5 June 2009

It’s Fix the Tax Code Friday! Yesterday, I blogged about NC’s efforts to woo Apple and Google to the Tarheel state by passing corporate tax breaks directed at each of them. This is nothing new. In my own state of Pennsylvania, a new film tax credit is being touted in an effort [...]

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NC Woos Apple With Promises of Tax Breaks

4 June 2009

In a tough economy – when a state can’t yet pay its bills – you’d think the fiscal plan for the future would be conservative. Not so, North Carolina. Despite massive budget woes, the state legislature has agreed to special tax breaks designed to bring Apple to the Tarheel State.
Apple, the company that [...]

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Congress Proposes Federal Tax on Downloaded Music

1 April 2009

Despite the Obama administration’s efforts to close the gap between decreasing revenues and increasing expenditures, the federal deficit is expected to soar this year. Congress has been scrambling for ways to find extra dollars and one Congressman believes he’s found a way: tax online music.
It’s no wonder. The number of songs sold [...]

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My New MacBook – and Its Tax Connection

1 August 2008

Just before BlogHer, Chris went out and bought me a new laptop. This was a fairly important purchase since my last laptop had more or less lost its portability – kind of an important part of a laptop.
My new laptop is a MacBook, just a more modern version of my prior laptop (only this [...]

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Use Tax on iTunes? It Doesn’t Make Sense.

14 July 2008

Another Tax Geek asked me whether I pay Use Tax on my iTunes purchases (you can answer him, too, by voting in our poll in the sidebar). I do not. I started to reply in the comments and felt that my comment was a bit wordy (as I tend to be) and I [...]

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Don’t Hate Her Because She’s Beautiful.

18 July 2007

Hate her because she’s beautiful and rich.

Supermodel Gisele Bundchen of Brazil topped Forbes.com’s 2007 list of The Top Earning Models in the World with a whopping $33 million earnings last year. Even more surprising, Kate Moss came in second at a “paltry” $9 million – a pretty impressive differential.
Estimates as to Gisele’s US tax [...]

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iPhone, uTax?

29 June 2007

Working at Apple just got a little sweeter, it seems.
Apple has announced that it is giving free iPhones to all 18,000 of its employees, at a cost of over $10 million to the company. Each of the models is worth about $600.
Cool, right?
The new phones are set to be distributed to employees at the [...]

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