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A strong background in corporate tax is required with experience of tax advisory work, tax compliance and audit of tax. An Insurance background is beneficial but not essential. |
The Insurance Tax team provides services to all sectors of the insurance market, including the Lloyds of London market, commercial and private insurance providers, reinsurance carriers, life and health insurers, and brokers. Clients include the biggest UK insurance names, the largest International and the specialist Be... |
As well as broadening knowledge and experience of the Insurance industry and Insurance taxation, the role will offer exposure to a number of wider areas of tax, including Mergers & Acquisition, International, Finance & Treasury and Group restructuring. |
The role will provide significant development opportunities that arise in working in a market leading team. |
Facebook, in its advertising, used to get all caught up in lofty and tortured metaphors for friendship. But its latest ads—gritty, immediate, powerfully evocative—show how far the social network has come in grounding its message in more relatable truths. |
Three new 60-second ads from in-house agency The Factory meditate on just what friendship means to people. And they succeed on almost every level, for a variety of reasons. |
First, the writing is poetic and—maybe most critically—humble. "They make our lives a little different, leave us a little bit changed," the voiceover says of friends in the first spot. The self-effacing tone is a thread that runs through the whole campaign (and is the polar opposite of the cosmic pretensions in the old... |
The writing also weaves in the familiar Facebook nomenclature—"likes," "shares," "friend requests"—in ways that mesh with real life, and don't feel purely virtual. "They drag us into their madness, make us heroes in their stories," says the narrator. "So we let their likes become our likes, and the things they share be... |
There's only the occasional glimpse of a mobile phone—wisely suggesting that the platform is secondary to the experiences that can be lived, and then shared on it. |
Finally, there's the music—spare piano versions of Rihanna's "Umbrella," the Cure's "Close to Me" and Madonna's "Like a Prayer." The tracks do a nice job of lending atmosphere that feels, like the best friendships, both familiar and new. |
Facebook has been doing strong advertising for about six months now, but this is its best work yet. Whether the company even needs to promote itself is another issue, but at least these days it's doing it right. |
Jack Altsman, 77, died Thursday, December 27, 2012 at Friendship Ridge. |
Born October 2, 1935 in Beaver Falls, he was the son of the late Harold B. and Mamie Bissele Altsman. |
Jack retired from Damascus Steel in 2002 as Superintendent, was chairman of the Beaver Falls Republicans and served 37 years as a Republican Committeeman. He was a Constable in the 3rd Ward, an avid fisherman and hunter and member of the First Lutheran Church in Beaver Falls. |
He is survived by his wife, JoAnn Tolbert Altsman, Brighton Twp.; two sons Ronald Altsman, formerly of Fombell and Jack Altsman, Warren, PA; two daughters, JoAnn Altsman, formerly of Fombell and Jackie (Eugene) Smith, Coraopolis; ten grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. |
Friends will be received Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. and Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. in the SPRATT FUNERAL HOME, 1901 Seventh Ave., BEAVER FALLS, where services will be conducted Monday, December 31, 2012 at 1:30 p.m. by Pastor Susan Irons. |
The family would like to thank the staff of Friendship Ridge on 2 East for their concern and loving care of Jack and request memorials be made in Jack's memory to the Beaver County Humane Society, P. O. Box 63, Monaca PA 15061. |
He’s got his own line of clothing, he’s a big hit in most of the world yet a relative unknown to most American music fans, and he made his Chicago debut last week- he’s Belgian singer Paul Van Haver who goes by the stage name Stromae. This week on Global Notes, Morning Shift and Radio M host Tony Sarabia will look at S... |
Tony Sarabia is the host of WBEZ Morning Shift. |
Emmanuel Dzotsi is a production assistant for Worldview. |
President Barack Obama and Cuba’s president, Raul Castro, met on Tuesday during UN General Assembly meetings in New York City. They both spoke of ways to deepen renewed ties between the two countries, but they also had points of contention. Mr. Obama pressed Mr. Castro on Cuba’s human rights record and Mr. Castro insis... |
Guest: Geoff Thale is the program director at the Washington Office on Latin America and Director of WOLA’s Cuba program. |
Animal communication has been observed and documented for centuries, but only recently, have studies shown that we’ve only scratched the surface of understanding this complex world of grunts, barks and howls. For our EcoMyths segment, Kate Sackman and Beth Kosson of EcoMyths Alliance, will join Bill Ziegler, senior vic... |
Bill Zeigler is with the Chicago Zoological Society. He is senior vice president of Animal programs at Brookfield Zoo. |
Kate Sackman is the founder and president of EcoMyths Alliance. |
Beth Kosson is the interim executive director of EcoMyths Alliance. |
As you will undoubtedly recall, last year I launched Imagineer Quest 2007. This was my quixotic quest to talk to an Imagineer, the geniuses behind a large portion of what Disney does. The quest was a massive success and now I just have to get a job with them in order to fulfill my dream. But, I have another dream, a dr... |
Nature – “The Desert Lions”. I guess desert lions are cool. I've always been more of a dessert lion person than a desert lion person. It's not that I'm against desert lions, but a new dessert lion, made of chocolate and caramel, is just the sort of thing that I like to finish a delicious meal with. The dessert lion is ... |
Masterpiece Theatre – "Jane Eyre". Let's face it, this is a classic novel and more than one classic versions of the novel have been put on screen. This version received numerous awards and nominations, though I'll admit to not being a huge fan of it. |
Antiques Roadshow – "Baltimore (Hour One)". I used to live in Baltimore. I know about antiques in Baltimore. The city's mentality is antique. The city's actions are antique. The city's persona is antique. And, none of that is antique in a good way, it's all, frankly, just old and outdated. |
Great Performances – "Carnegie Hall Celebrates Berlin". You know how you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. You know who practices a lot? The Berliner Philharmoniker. Thus, the Berliner Philharmoniker has made it to Carnegie Hall. Watch it, you might enjoy it. No promises though. |
Nova – "Absolute Zero". I know about absolute zero, and can actually tell you about absolute zero without reading the description. Absolute zero is the coldest possible temperature, it is zero Kelvin. My understanding is that one does not say zero degrees Kelvin, it's just zero Kelvin. As one approaches zero Kelvin, ra... |
Frontline – "The Medicated Child". Did you know that more than four million children are now on behavior medication medicine? Wow. That's incredible. Are we over-diagnosing? Are we just being silly? Have we given up on parenting completely? Quite possibly. |
Independent Lens – "Today's Man". Lizzie Gottlieb, who made this movie, did so in order to try and understand her brother. Her brother, at age 21, was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome (a high-functioning form of autism). Lizzie, I believe, learns a lot during her search for understanding and meaning. |
Pioneers of Television – “Late Night”. Pioneers of Television is a four-part documentary series that features brand-new interviews (in HD no less) and swell archival clips from some of your favorite shows. The four television genres covered are: sitcoms, late-night, variety, and game shows. What, no drama? |
The Jewish Americans – "They Came to Stay/A World of Their Own". This is two hours of a six-hour documentary that looks at 350 years of a Jewish presence in America. It examines Jewish immigration, assimilation, and the overall Jewish experience. Also, it's narrated by Liev Schreiber. |
Live From Lincoln Center – "I Can't Believe It's Schoenberg!". Me neither. Can you believe it? Schoenberg! Schoenberg, I tell you, Schoenberg! For those who don't know, Schoenberg wrote Verklärte Nacht. Now do you know Schoenberg? Now do you believe it's him? |
Soundstage – "Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Live from Gatorville (Part 1)". Petty and company return to Gainesville, Florida, their hometown. This show was their first show there in 13 years. I guess Tom and company are not superstitious, otherwise they may have waited another year, or perhaps never have gone back a... |
Washington Week with Gwen Ifill and National Journal #4728. Another whole week has gone by and good old Gwen Ifill and National Journal are here to fill us in. For the record, I like to pretend the National Journal is a sidekick, like Robin to Batman, Starsky to Hutch, or chocolate sauce to chocolate ice cream. |
NOW #402. It’s the Emmy award-winning weekly newsmagazine. It looks at issues facing our democracy. The show is hosted by David Brancaccio. And, even better, they still send me e-mails (I think that makes me cool and them nice). Thanks, Now, you guys are awesome! |
Bill Moyers Journal #1140. It’s Bill Moyers. It’s his 1,140th journal (not really, but I’m not going to explain to you the way in which TV shows are numbered at this point in time, maybe later if you’re nice). He’s a good journalist so I assume this will be good journalism (at least the odds are it will). |
Slavery and the Making of America – "The Downward Spiral". The first hour of this repeat series looks at the early history of our country, 1619 through 1739, and the origins of slavery in this country. While not a moment in our country that we should be proud of, it's certainly something that ought to be learned about. |
Austin City Limits – "Kings of Leon/Rory Erickson". I wonder if Rory Erickson is royalty of some sort. Perhaps he's a Duke of some sort. Maybe he's the Duke of Earl travelling under a stage name. Normally I wouldn't think such a thing, but why would the Kings of Leon agree to work with a regular individual? Surely they... |
So, the new quest, an old dream that has been enhanced for the digital age. I want to be an extra in a James Bond movie. Oh sure, I want to do more than be an extra, I want to have a walk-on speaking role, but that's just insane, I'm no actor. But, what I am is a monster James Bond fan, and I would love a behind the sc... |
Bill Clinton blistered the Republicans on a variety of points last night but prominent among them, to an economics correspondent, was his attack on the Romney/Ryan budget plan and its tax cut for the upper crust. |
But I sat up and took special notice when the eminent UCal Berkeley economist Brad DeLong, a Democrat and once a colleague of Mankiw and Feldstein, also joined in. His popular blog, “Grasping Reality with Both Invisible Hands: Fair, Balanced, and Reality-Based: A Semi-Daily Journal,” is here. |
“I never called DC contributions ‘loopholes’. Romney said he could pay for his proposed tax cuts by limiting deductions and loopholes of high income taxpayers. There are certainly lots of ‘loopholes’ but no one should call the IRA-type contributions a loophole. |
Marty ended by attaching the note reprinted at the bottom. |
“As far as I am aware, Romney has said that he will close loopholes and eliminate deductions. |
If Marty can get Romney to shift his rhetoric to say that he will broaden the tax base by adding taxes on employer contributions to health insurance and pension accounts, then Marty is right–and all power to him for pinning Romney down to actually mention the Base Broadening That Dare Not Speak Its Name. |
If not, then Marty is wrong: taxing employer contributions to health insurance and pension accounts is not what Romney–or any other Republican–means by ‘loophole closing’. |
Marty is defending against the charge that his candidate’s proposals are incoherent–and are left unspecified because they are incoherent–by saying that there might be some other candidate–not mine–who would set forward some other set of proposals–not this set–that would not be incoherent. |
“This note is a reply to those who commented on my August 28 WSJ article (available at www.nber.org/feldstein/wsj08282012.pdf) about the Romney Tax Plan. The Romney income tax plan includes a 20% cut in all individual tax rates, eliminating the AMT, and eliminating the taxes on interest, dividends and capital gains for... |
The Tax Policy Center (and others citing their report) claimed that the Romney plan is “mathematically impossible” and that the plan would inevitably lead to a large middle class tax increase or a rise in the budget deficit. |
I found that that conclusion is not correct. It is possible to cut taxes as Gov. Romney indicates and to finance it with base broadening for taxpayers with AGI over $100,000. Governor Romney has not specified the base broadening that he would propose. My calculations presented here and in the WSJ are not estimates of t... |
For the WSJ article I analyzed the most recent published IRS data (for 2009). The cost of the Romney proposed tax cuts would be $219 billion in that year with no behavioral response (the “static estimate”) or $186 after a $33 billion reduction in cost caused by the behavioral response to lower marginal rates (with an e... |
The critics of my WSJ piece raised 4 objections: (1) The 30 percent marginal tax rate is too high for these taxpayers because of the 20% Romney rate reduction. (2) The behavioral response (reducing the cost of rate reduction by $33 billion) is too large because the elasticity of the tax base would be lower than the 0.5... |
While I still believe the assumptions that I used in my analysis, I can modify them as suggested by the critics and still support my original conclusion by broadening the tax base in ways suggested but not developed in my WSJ piece. Eliminating a few of the “tax expenditure” exclusions and credits that are important fo... |
More specifically, using a 25% marginal tax rate instead of 30% would reduce the revenue from eliminating deductions by 5% of $636 billion or $32 billion. Cutting the behavioral response in half (i.e., using a taxable income elasticity of just 0.25) would raise the cost of the tax cut by $17 billion. The cost of the “p... |
Eliminating the exclusion of municipal bond interest for taxpayers with AGI over $100,000 would increase tax revenue by an additional $15 billion. |
Eliminating the child credit for those with incomes over $100,000 would increase revenue by an additional $10 billion. |
So just those three changes to the list of base broadening measures would raise $75 billion or more than enough to exceed the $64 billion of potential shortfall with the very conservative assumptions noted above. |
Additional tax revenue could be raised without reducing incentives to save or to invest efficiently by eliminating the exclusion for high-income taxpayers of such things as capital gains on home sales, the “cafeteria plan” benefits, and the capital gains at death. |
One further point on the appropriate marginal tax rate (objection 1 above): although the top statutory rate is 35 percent, the effective top marginal tax rate is higher because of various phase-out provisions that affect high-income taxpayers (PEP, Pease, etc.) so my original assumption of a 30 percent marginal tax rat... |
The final objection is to my use of the $100,000 level to show that the middle class (i.e., those below $100,000 AGI) would experience no tax increases. The $100,000 level corresponds to 21 percent of all taxable returns and a significantly smaller fraction of all households. I think it is very reasonable to say that p... |
In the meantime, please note that this entry is cross-posted on the Rundown– NewsHour’s blog of news and insight. |
It will share space with the upcoming 3 Chefs and a Chicken at the southeast corner of U.S. 1 and Red Road, technically in Coral Gables but across the street from the heart of South Miami. There, Mojo will be within blocks of two other independent doughnut shops. Salty Donut, which started the gourmet doughnut craze in... |
And here’s a bonus: The former Wendy’s location at 6601 SW 57th Ave. — which sold for $9 million in 2016 — will include a spot for one of Miami’s best new ice cream makers, Sweet Melody. It has been serving its confections alongside Mojo Donuts at its Westchester store and at the Wharf on the Miami River. They expect t... |
Mojo Donuts made a splash with sweets lovers when it opened in Pembroke Pines in 2013 with flavors like creme brulee with torched top, maple-bacon bars and guava and cheese and its 420 Munchies, a glazed yeast doughnut topped with chocolate,Snickers crumbles and potato sticks. |
Final arrangements for Kim Porter have been set for Saturday. |
The 46-year-old model, whose birthday would have been next month, will return home to Columbus, Ga., where she’ll be buried at the Evergreen Memorial Gardens cemetery alongside her mom and grandmother. The procession will begin with an 11 a.m. funeral service at Cascade Hills Church. |
Porter’s father Jake flew to Los Angeles after his daughter was found dead in her house Thursday morning and helped arrange to bring her back to Georgia. A cause of death has not been determined, though a source close to the situation said the model — who had three children with hip-hop mogul Sean Combs and a son with ... |
A Daily News source said it was Jake Porter who asked for his daughter to be laid to rest in the southern town where she was raised and began her modelling career at a showcase called Head and Shoulders Above the Rest. |
Combs hosted a private memorial for Porter in California Sunday where friends on the West Coast mourned. He’s also expected to attend the service in Georgia, according to sources. |
Activision boss Bobby Kotick didn't buy Myspace. Someone else will for a measly $35 million (considerably less than the $580 million IGN owner News Corp. paid in 2005). Furthermore, also-dying social network Friendster is now a social gaming hub. |
EXCLUSIVE: 'Big Bang Theory's Melissa Rauch is Disney's Newest Fairy Godmother! |
The Big Bang Theory's Melissa Rauch is trading in her glasses for the glitz and glamor of being a fairy godmother on Disney Junior's hit series Sofia the First -- and only ETonline has your first look at her magical debut! |
The blonde beauty is lending her voice to the series as Tizzy, Ruby's new fairy godmother who is ready to help Ruby achieve her dreams of winning the village's annual Go-Carriage race. |
Tizzy is in the process of earning her fairy godmother wings, but when she becomes a little too over-eager to help, Ruby learns that a little assistance is nice, but sometimes you have to do things for yourself. |
Rauch is not the first famous voice to appear on the hit Disney Junior series. Sofia the First stars the voices of Ariel Winter as Sofia; Sara Ramirez as her mother, Queen Miranda; Wayne Brady as Sofia's wise-talking rabbit sidekick Clover; and Tim Gunn as Baileywick, the castle's royal steward. |
Catch Rauch's episode of Sofia the First on Friday, March 27 at 9:55 am on Disney Junior. |
It is now exactly a decade since I last washed my hair – and encouraged more than 500 Sydneysiders to follow my lead. Who knew where it would take us? Many predicted a land of greasy locks and wrinkled noses, of social isolation and complaints to the office manager, but none of that has come to pass. |
I was inspired by a newspaper article in The Times of London. The paper's political writer, Matthew Parris, confided that on a hiking trip into the wilds of South America he'd been forced to eschew shampoo for many weeks. |
As expected, his hair became increasingly rank. Day by day the situation worsened, until, well, it stopped worsening. The scalp, sensing an excess of oil, stopped producing more. A few weeks in and his hair was cleaner, lighter, shinier than it had been during his days as a shampoo user. |
As a child, I was sent to a Presbyterian Sunday school, somewhere deep in the Amish part of Sydney's North Shore. While the church officials never managed to convince me of the existence of God, they really sold me on the idea of delayed gratification. Somewhere deep inside my psyche this idea remains: the sweetest ple... |
It has proved a useful notion when it comes to university study, credit control and getting on top of the housework. It was also, I assume, why Parris' "no-shampoo" campaign chimed with me. If only one were willing to endure six weeks of oily agony, one could enter a sunny uplands of perpetual bliss. It was the whole P... |
I decided I would make myself a guinea pig. On radio, I idly suggested others may care to join me. In the end, 523 listeners signed up to the deal: we agreed not to use shampoo for six weeks, recording in a dairy the impact on our hair. At the end of the process, we would assess whether our hair was better, worse or th... |
The Sydney experiment was widely reported. I found myself quoted in the New York Times. A Dutch radio program set up its own experiment. In London, Parris noted that he'd become patron saint of a world-wide movement, and wondered whether he'd finally managed his life-long ambition of creating a cult in his own name. |
Many quoted the central thesis of the Sydney experiment: shampoo is just a detergent designed to strip the oil from your scalp, which in turn encourages your scalp to pump out more oil to replace what has been lost. Hold off with the detergent and your scalp will find its own natural balance. |
By now, assuming that you are a shampoo user, I have the sense that you are gasping with revulsion – perhaps even registering delight that I am communicating with you via the written word, rather than in person. |
You may even find yourself, as you read, involuntarily scratching your own scalp. |
Let me, however, try to sell you on the idea. Shampoo is a recent invention – introduced on a wide-scale in Germany as late as 1927. America followed in the early 1930s. Before that, people rinsed their hair with hot water, perhaps massaging their scalp a little as they did so. |
So what happened with the Sydney radio experiment? In the end, 86 per cent of our fluffy, shiny-haired guinea pigs reported that their hair was either better or the same. The New York Times quoted one of our participants, Emma Rowles, 22, who blamed her former "itchy scalp" on shampoo and declared: "There's no way I wi... |
A decade on, I've never considered going back on the 'poo. My hair, you'll have to trust me, smells completely normal. I don't like to boast, but it's fluffy and shiny. |
Think, too, of the money I've saved. Say, a bottle-per-month of the cheap stuff, that's $7 a bottle multiplied by 120 months, which is $840. |
Plus: there's the cost of the conditioner – necessary because you've just plunged your hair in detergent. Plus: the cost of all the hot water, down the drain as these unnecessary rituals are performed. |
And then there are the plastic bottles. And the chemicals you've just applied to your skin. |
Ten years on, I still meet the participants of the Sydney Experiment of 2007. They approach me, we touch each other's hair. We swap compliments and – yes, smugly, perhaps – calculate how much money we've saved. Sometimes, we buy each other a beer out of the proceeds. |
Nearly all of us, it seems, have never looked back. |
Maybe that's because we don't want to see the trail of nits we're leaving behind. I prefer to think it's because we're onto something. |
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