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• Limited liability: the ultimate cause of moral hazard

  —Tax Research UK

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  The Guardian has noted:

  The Dubai government refused to guarantee the huge debts built up by its conglomerate Dubai World, dashing investor hopes that the latest episode in the global financial crisis might be swiftly resolved.

  In an interview on local television, the director general of Dubai’s department of finance, Abdulrahman [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 4:45am EST
  by Richard Murphy

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• How the Tax Law Fuels the College Sports Arms Race

  —TaxProf Blog

  New York Times op-ed, The Department of Lucrative Athletics, by Gilbert M. Gaul: Another key element fueling the [college sports] arms race is the increasingly indefensible tax treatment of sports revenues. Decades ago — before the lucrative television contracts, Internet marketing, Nike sponsorships and luxury boxes — Congress essentially exempted... [...]

  Posted: November 30, 2009, 5:00am EST
  by Paul Caron

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• The shrinking movie release window and blockbusters

  —Sox First

  The movie world is a fascinating industry to watch. It's developing and changing all the time, in unexpected ways.Cable and satellite television are now supplying more channels to more people across the world with more than half of all pay-television subscribers now live in the Asia-Pacific region. And every minute,' [...]

  Posted: November 28, 2009, 2:34am EST
  

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• Methinks the Member of the House of Keys doth protest too much

  —Tax Research UK

  Manx Radio’s web site features an article entitled “Calls for BBC correction in Keys”. It notes:

  Comments about the Isle of Man, broadcast in a BBC television programme last weekend, will be raised in the House of Keys this week.

  Onchan MHK Peter Karran has described them as ‘damaging and inaccurate’ [...]

  Posted: November 09, 2009, 7:02am EST
  by Richard Murphy

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• Wait Listed by Jail-11

  —Skeptical CPA

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  "One of the newest residents on Arizona's death row, a convicted serial killer name Dale Hausner, poked his head up from his television to look at several visitors strolling by, each of whom wore face masks and vests to protect against the sharp homemade objetcs that often are propelled from'" [...]

  Posted: November 07, 2009, 10:31am EST
  by Independent Accountant

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• Turnabout

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  "Prosecutors are worried that a planned television appearance by Rod R. Blagojevich [Blogo], the indicted former governor of Illinois, may prejudice the potential pool of jurors for his trial on corruption charges scheduled for June. Although [Blogo] has appeared on many television talk shows and recently published his memoir, his" [...]

  Posted: November 06, 2009, 7:59pm EST
  by Independent Accountant

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• Can you get film tax credits by making a film about film tax credits?

  —Roth & Company, P.C.

  Iowa Public Television ran a half-hour feature about Iowa's 30 or so "economic development" tax credits last night. These credits are getting more attention in the wake of the use of the film credit to buy luxury cars and Ipods for out-of-state film producers.

  If you missed it [...]

  Posted: November 06, 2009, 7:41am EST
  by Joe Kristan

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