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The State Council, or China's cabinet, has decided to expand its value-added tax reform nationwide, covering more industries in order to further reduce tax burdens on businesses. Experts say the expansion sends a signal that the government is speedin

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Senate leaders say they're optimistic that they'll have a deal to end the partial government shutdown on Wednesday. The deadline to raise the government's debt limit hits at midnight. A man who works at Los Angeles International Airport is under arre

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: Senate Republicans are expected to unveil their version of a tax overhaul today. Like the House bill that's already moving along, the Senate version is being touted as a way to keep more money in Americans' pockets. But for millio

美国国家公共电台 NPR Trump Travel Ban Allowed To Take Partial Effect

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: President Trump's travel ban is back on, partially, after an appeals court ruling over the third version of it. Here's NPR's Richard Gonzales. RICHARD GONZALES, BYLINE: The ruling comes from a three-judge panel of the U.S. Ninth

美国国家公共电台 NPR What A Tax Overhaul Could Mean For Students And Schools

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Lawmakers are trying to reconcile two different versions of a tax bill, one passed by the House, the other by the Senate. They do seem to agree - Republicans, anyway - on two changes that affect America's schools. NPR's Cory Turn

美国国家公共电台 NPR Open Or Closed? Here's What Happens In A Partial Government Shutdown

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Unless there's a last-minute agreement, the federal government is about to partially shut down. Funding for most agencies expires at midnight tonight Eastern Time. So what exactly does that mean? NPR's Brian Naylor is here to tel

美国国家公共电台 NPR Push To Transfer Federal Lands To States Has Sportsmen On Edge

DAVID GREENE, HOST: One of the very first moves by the new Republican Congress was to make it easier to transfer ownership of federal public lands in the West over to states. And the state of Wyoming has become a flashpoint in this debate. Lawmakers

China widens VAT to more regions in tax reduction

BEIJING, July 25 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese government said Wednesday that it will expand the pilot reform of replacing turnover tax with value-added tax (VAT) to 10 more provinces and cities from August 1 this year as part of the country's efforts in s

ECONOMICS REPORT - Tax Time in U.S.

ECONOMICS REPORT - Tax Time in U.S. By Mario Ritter Broadcast: Friday, April 16, 2004 This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English Economics Report. April fifteenth is a special date for Americans

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Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS Jewish settlers participate in a protest against the Israeli government decision to freeze settlement construction in the West Bank, outside the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, 3 Jan 2010 Jewish settlement councils have

Top GOP senator opposes tax hikes to replace spending cuts

WASHINGTON, March 3 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell on Sunday said that he opposed raising taxes to solve U.S. government's spending problem and replace the ongoing government's spending cuts. We have a spending addiction in

Deals over tax-funded projects made more transparent

BEIJING, June 1 (Xinhua) -- A system is to be launched in China to make deals concerning government-financed infrastructure construction projects in water conservancy, transport and railways more transparent. Sources with a special anti-corruption ag

Chinese gov't studying property tax expansion: minister

Chinese gov't studying property tax expansion: minister BEIJING, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese government is actively studying an expansion of the experimental property tax program in the country and may expand the program when time is appropriate,

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Vodafone Threatens India With Arbitration Over Tax Issue

The British mobile service Vodafone has threatened the Indian government with international arbitration over a proposal that could make it liable for billions of dollars of taxes. Pressure is mounting on India to reconsider the proposal, which foreig

US Senate Extends Payroll Tax Cuts for Americans

The U.S. Senate has passed a compromise measure that extends payroll tax cuts for American workers for another two months. Lawmakers in the upper house of Congress overwhelmingly passed the legislation by a vote of 89 to 10, a day after Republicans a

美国国家公共电台 NPR How The Partial Government Shutdown Could Affect You

NOEL KING, HOST: This morning, a partial government shutdown continues. It started on Saturday after lawmakers failed to agree on a set of spending bills. The main sticking point was President Trump's demand for $5 billion for border wall funding. Th

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The Labour Party said today that if elected in November, they would bring in a Capital Gains Tax CGT on profits from selling property. For many years now, house prices have been increasing fast. If a landlord buys a house for $200,000 then sells it f

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CARL AZUZ, CNN 10 ANCHOR: Partisan politics, divisions between law makers and the nation's leader, high stakes legislation and questions about the future. Those are some of the challenges being faced in two governments today on two different sides of

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The border between the United States and Mexico has been getting a lot of attention lately and U.S. President Donald Trump is planning to visit the area again on Thursday. He wants Congress to approve $5.6 billion in funding for a wall along the U.S.