| City gas tax dies |
| Portland City Commissioner Sam Adams has dropped his plans for a 3-cent city gas tax, but will ask the City Council to add a "street maintenance and safety fee" into water bills of $4.54 - - more |
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| Commissioner Shulman's Senate Finance Testimony on Ponzi Schemes and Offshore Tax Evasion Legislation |
| Prepared Testimony of Doug Shulman, Commissioner Internal Revenue Service, Before the Senate Finance Committee on Tax Issues Related to Ponzi Schemes and an Update on Offshore Tax Evasion Legislation - - more |
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| Companies Get More Leeway on Mark |
| The Financial Accounting Standards Board, which sets U.S. accounting rules, proposed Monday to allow companies to exercise more judgment in determining if a market for an asset is active and if a transaction is "distressed." - - more |
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| E-conomic Surges Ahead With Annual Revenue Growth Of 60 |
| e-conomic, the leading European provider of online accounting, announces outstanding financial results and a record breaking one thousand new customers joining in January 2009 alone. - - more |
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| House panel gets FASB pledge on accounting rule |
| WASHINGTON (AP) -- A House panel wrung a pledge Thursday from the head of an accounting board to try to issue guidelines in three weeks that will ease rules that force banks to value assets at current prices. - - more |
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| Outsource Bookkeeping and Accounting Services to India |
| Hi-Tech Bookkeeping Services is a leading bookkeeping outsourcing firm specializing in bookkeeping and accounting services in India. We specialize in bank reconciliation, trial balance sheet preparation and payroll processing at affordable rates. - - more |
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| Portal Service connects accounting systems with PayPal |
| Through web-based ePortal service, company's accounting software is connected to their PayPal account. Customer payment information from PayPal is automatically integrated to accounting software by marking orders as paid or by creating separate cash payment document, completely eliminating need for manual data entry. - - more |
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| SC- Accused presence not necessary, judiciary goes tech friendly |
| The Supreme Court has held that in view of revolutionary changes in communication technology, particularly the advent of computerisation, the time has come to relax the condition that the accused must be personally present in the court to be examined by prosecution and in deserving cases - - more |
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| U.S. credit card defaults rise to 20 year-high |
| NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. credit card defaults rose in February to their highest level in at least 20 years, with losses particularly severe at American Express Co (AXP.N) and Citigroup (C.N) amid a deepening recession. - - more |
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| US Lawmakers Seek Tax Relief For Madoff Victims |
| Two Democratic members of Congress have introduced separate bills into the House of Representatives that would provide more generous tax refunds for victims of investment scams, including those victims of Bernard Madoff's USD65bn scam. - - more |
