Digging California out of a $28 billion budget deficit is going to hurt: The major question is who will pay and how much. Taxes on retail sales. Income. Wine. Car licenses. Even Giants baseball tickets. They're all at stake as the governor and state ...
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The state will have to leave 3,500 state jobs vacant, eliminate employee bonuses and cut agencies' budgets by 2.5 percent to deal with the worst projected budget deficit in its history, Gov. Jim Doyle said Thursday. Doyle also called for targeted tax ...
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LONDON -(Dow Jones)- European businesses don't need subsidies or aid, but they do need governments and central banks to boost demand through interest rate and tax cuts, a group of 47 leading European companies said Monday. Meeting in Istanbul ...
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Recent federal legislation designed to address the credit crisis includes some benefits for ordinary taxpayers, too. Brenda Schafer, manager of tax analysis for H&R Block's Tax Institute, calls the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act the "everything ...
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Intuit Inc. (Nasdaq: INTU - News ) today announced first-quarter revenue of $481 million, an 8 percent increase over the year-ago quarter. “First-quarter revenue was within our expected range, and operating ...
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Mayors of three cities hit hardest by the economic crisis - Philadelphia, Atlanta and Phoenix - asked the federal government Friday for a piece of the $700 billion bailout package, saying they need help just like financial institutions. Mayor Michael ...
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The Group of 20 Summit Conference in Washington in the middle of November has formally and finally recognized India's standing in the world today as a responsible power and put it on the high table. It has been placed on the decision making board of ...
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