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Tax-News.com: UK Announces Plastics Tax, Business Rates Relief In 2020 Budget

The UK's 2020 Budget, released on March 11, 2020, includes proposals to waive business rates on small retailers, to introduce a new tax on plastics, and to remove value-added tax on electronic publications.




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Tax-News.com: Saint Kitts And Nevis Announces Another 'Tax-Free' Budget

The Prime Minister of St Kitts and Nevis and Minister of Finance, Timothy Harris, delivered a "tax-free Budget" on December 12, 2019.




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Tax-News.com: IoM Budget Includes Plan For Bank Tax

The Isle of Man's 2018 Budget maintains the zero percent company tax rate, and announces a banking tax review, which will look at taxing all banking profits at the 10 percent rate from next year.




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Tax-News.com: Australia Brings Forward Personal Income Tax Reform In 2019 Budget

Australian Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has announced that the Government will bring forward the start date for its package of income tax cuts.




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Tax-News.com: Irish Gov't Pledges Individual Tax Cuts, No Digital Tax

Ireland's governing party Fine Gael has published its election manifesto, which includes proposals to reduce the income tax burden and reform the taxation of SMEs.




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Tax-News.com: Luxembourg's 2020 Budget Approved By Parliament

On December 19, 2019, Luxembourg's Chamber of Deputies approved the Government's Budget for 2020, which among other measures includes important changes to the validity of advanced tax rulings.




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Tax-News.com: Hong Kong Announces Tax Credit Handout In 2020 Budget

Hong Kong's 2020 Budget includes plans for a one-off reduction of profits tax, salaries tax, and tax under personal assessment.




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Press Release: New Knowledge Platform on the Indus Basin

The Indus Basin Knowledge Platform (IBKP), which seeks to improve access to information and supports decision making on critical basin challenges, is launched at World Water Week 2016.




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DownToEarth.org.in: Treasure in excreta: Fast-depleting phosphorus can be extracted from faecal sludge

How close is the world to “peak phosphorus” — that point in time when production of phosphorus will reach its maximum and it will get harder to access it?



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Union Budget 2010-11: Impact on Health Care

The union budget, for the year 2010-11, was presented yesterday by the finance minister, Pranab Mukherjee. As usual, i




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Union Budget 2011-2012 and Its Impact on the Health Sector

On the 28 th of February India's finance minister, Pranab Mukherjee, delivered the union budget in the parliament.




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Black Day for Gay Community in India - 'Supreme Court Judgment Takes the Community Back by 100 Years' Says Activist

The Supreme Court's ruling on Wednesday pronouncing gay sex illegal in India has caused uproar among gay rights acti




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Budget 2014: 'Good Day' for Healthcare

The health of the nation is determined by the health of its people. The 2014 Indian budget, which was tabled in Par




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Union Health Budget - 2017-2018

Highlights: Elimination of diseases like Kala Azar (Visceral leishmaniasis), Filariasis, measles, an




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Universal Healthcare for The Poor: Budget 2018

Highlights: Union Budget of India 2018 launches 'Modicare' world's largest healthcare program New National




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Budget 2019: What's New in the Health Sector?

Highlights: The Union Budget has been presented in Parliament on Friday 1 st February, 2019 In the health sector,




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Training manual for fecal sludge-based compost production and application

Based on IWMI’s experience, this training manual has been compiled for plant managers and trainers to help ensure that staff involved in FS treatment and production, and application of an FS-based co-compost adopt best practices in all processes involved.




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Online Videos Enhance Cancer Knowledge

Online health videos are an important source of cancer knowledge, according to Rutgers researchers. Their review, published in the iJournal of Cancer




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U.S. Weekly Lodging Sector Update - By Kalibri Labs

This dashboard is designed to provide critical insights to the hotel community as we weather the storm of COVID-19. Updates are made weekly. Hotel performance by rate category Group pickup and cancellations Future airline bookings Hotel closings Org...




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Sittingbourne Travelodge Officially Opens Its Doors

Today, Travelodge, the UK's first budget hotel chain celebrates 20 years of trading in Kent, by officially opening its first hotel in Sittingbourne. Sittingbourne Travelodge is the company's 589th hotel and its 16th property in Kent. The purpose built hotel is located in the heart of the town centre, at Bourne Place leisure quarter (which is part of the 'Spirit of Sittingbourne' £326m regeneration programme). The hotel represents a multimillion investment for Swale Borough Council and has created 15 new jobs within the community. Sittingbourne Travelodge features 63-rooms which include a selection of family, double and accessible rooms. The rooms have been designed by Travelodge business and leisure customers and the décor features a sleep inducing colour palette, introduced by a chronotherapy expert. The featured walls are painted a tranquil blue, as research shows our body clock is programmed to relate the colour blue to the hours of darkness, so our metabolism slows down making us ...




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Microsoft Reveals Badge Indicating Xbox Series X Optimized Games

Full power. Microsoft has created a badge that will be used to indicate games optimised for the Xbox Series X platform.




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Expert meeting on harnessing knowledge on the migration of highly skilled women

The migration of women is a growing phenomenon in most countries. About half of all international migrants are women, according to OECD data. Over the years, the body of knowledge on the participation of highly skilled women to migration flows has increased but despite this growing knowledge, there is low visibility of research findings for policy makers and multilateral organizations.




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Improving Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems: OECD Conference Proceedings

How can government policies move towards increasing agricultural innovation and improving productivity? This OECD conference shared case studies and ideas from Europe, China, United States, India, Africa, Brazil, Australia and New Zealand.




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Knowledge Management Specialist

Company: Golden Opportunities Private Limited
Experience: 2 to 6
location: Mumbai
Ref: 24813879
Summary: Minimum 2 years of experience in Content writing and content creation experience required




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Kevin Hart sex tape scandal; 60 million dollar lawsuit dismissed by judge

Kevin Hart has just got a major burden released from his shoulders. Reportedly, the actor and comedian has had his $60 million sex tape lawsuit dismissed.




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Top Three Rebadged Cars in India

Rebadge engineering of automobiles is becoming a trend in India. Before we go onto finding out how and why, with some of the examples that have currently gained significance of a product in the Auto-market, let’s...




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Health care quality improved in Portugal, despite tight budgets

The Portuguese National Health Service has responded well to financial pressure, successfully balancing the twin priorities of financial consolidation and continuous quality improvement, according to a new OECD report.




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A Simple guide for couponing –how to manage budget shopping

Shopping is a great fun if budget is not a constraint. Shopping coupons were initially introduced as promotional coupons for entertaining online shoppers by offering some extra discounts against each online purchase deals. Later on the...




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Some Ideas On How To Choose The Best Suitable Name Badges Depending On The Organization

 

In today's market name badges are available in varying types from which the organizations can choose the one that perfectly meets their requirement. Generally these badges are made using three basic...




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OECD marks Poland’s 20 years of membership, sets out path to a more knowledge-based economy

Poland has achieved impressive progress in improving the living standards of its citizens over the past 20 years but needs to continue to move towards higher technology, boosting productivity and improving access to quality jobs and good pay, according to the OECD.




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Vanessa Hudgens revisits viral video of being hit on in the subway

Reportedly, the High School Musical alum posted a sweet duet reacting to a TikTok video of herself dancing on a metro station platform, before a tall gentleman, named Manuel De Los Santos.




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4 Naxals killed in exchange of fire with security forces at Chhattisgarh's Rajnandgaon

Among four Naxals, were two women, who were also killed when a team of security forces was out on a counter-insurgency operation.




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Improving Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems: OECD Conference Proceedings

How can government policies move towards increasing agricultural innovation and improving productivity? This OECD conference shared case studies and ideas from Europe, China, United States, India, Africa, Brazil, Australia and New Zealand.




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Economy: The United States needs to foster education and innovation to keep its cutting edge

The United States should do more to foster innovation and provide more equitable access to high-quality education in order to maintain its status as the world's most vibrant and productive economy, according to OECD's latest Economic Survey of the United States.




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Improving Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems: OECD Conference Proceedings

How can government policies move towards increasing agricultural innovation and improving productivity? This OECD conference shared case studies and ideas from Europe, China, United States, India, Africa, Brazil, Australia and New Zealand.




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The Netherlands is an innovative aid provider but budget pressures a concern

The Netherlands has responded to new global goals and challenges by integrating its aid, trade and investment agendas, and is an innovator in using aid flows to mobilise significant additional and responsible resources from the private sector, according to a new OECD report.




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Green Growth Knowledge Platform 2013 annual conference

The GGKP’s second annual conference will be held at the OECD Headquarters in Paris on 4-5 April 2013. The discussion will be framed around two headline themes: Greening global value chains and Measurement and reporting for green growth.




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Competition Policy and Knowledge-Based Capital - 2013

This book presents the key findings resulting from discussions held at a series of best practice roundtables on competition and knowledge-based capital.




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Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP) 2015 Annual Conference

Third Annual Conference on the theme of "Fiscal Policies and the Green Economy Transition: Generating Knowledge – Creating Impact" held at the University of Venice from 29 through 30 January 2015. The press release is available.




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Hedging through the tax charge: a threat to tax revenue

Aggressive tax planning (ATP) schemes based on after-tax hedging pose a threat to countries’ revenue base. Empirical evidence suggests that hundreds of millions of USD are at stake, with a number of multi-billion transactions identified by countries.




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Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP) 2015 Annual Conference

Third Annual Conference on the theme of "Fiscal Policies and the Green Economy Transition: Generating Knowledge – Creating Impact" held at the University of Venice from 29 through 30 January 2015. The press release is available.




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Mind the SDG gap: don’t forget sustainable domestic financing

Domestic resource mobilisation is a priority as a means to increase national capacity to finance the SDGs. Taxes are already the largest single source of financing, and have the potential for growth. As while the average level of taxes in developing countries remains low, countries have shown capacity to expand their revenues.




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Iraq Government Budget

Iraq recorded a Government Budget surplus equal to 6.20 percent of the country's Gross Domestic Product in 2018. Government Budget in Iraq averaged -3.70 percent of GDP from 2004 until 2018, reaching an all time high of 10.70 percent of GDP in 2006 and a record low of -34.90 percent of GDP in 2004. Government Budget is an itemized accounting of the payments received by government (taxes and other fees) and the payments made by government (purchases and transfer payments). A budget deficit occurs when an government spends more money than it takes in. The opposite of a budget deficit is a budget surplus. This page provides - Iraq Government Budget - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.




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Burundi Government Budget

Burundi recorded a Government Budget deficit equal to 8.80 percent of the country's Gross Domestic Product in 2018. Government Budget in Burundi averaged -9.62 percent of GDP from 1991 until 2018, reaching an all time high of -2.30 percent of GDP in 1991 and a record low of -20 percent of GDP in 2004. Government Budget is an itemized accounting of the payments received by government (taxes and other fees) and the payments made by government (purchases and transfer payments). A budget deficit occurs when an government spends more money than it takes in. The opposite of a budget deficit is a budget surplus. This page provides - Burundi Government Budget - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.




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Belgium Government Budget Value

Belgium recorded a government budget deficit of 3402 EUR Million in 2018. Government Budget Value in Belgium averaged -7757.33 EUR Million from 1970 until 2018, reaching an all time high of 779 EUR Million in 2006 and a record low of -18817 EUR Million in 2009. The government budget balance is the difference between government revenues and expenses. The budget is balanced when outlays equal to receipts, the country reports budget surplus when revenues are higher than expenses and deficit when expenses exceed the revenues. This page provides - Belgium Government Budget Value - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.




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Germany General Government Budget Value

Germany recorded a government budget surplus of 7.09 EUR Billion in the third quarter of 2019. Government Budget Value in Germany averaged -10.49 EUR Billion from 1991 until 2019, reaching an all time high of 40.63 EUR Billion in the third quarter of 2000 and a record low of -58.90 EUR Billion in the fourth quarter of 1992. The government budget balance is the difference between government revenues and expenses. The budget is balanced when outlays equal to receipts, the country reports budget surplus when revenues are higher than expenses and deficit when expenses exceed the revenues. This page provides the latest reported value for - Germany Government Budget Value - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.




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Iraq Government Budget Value

Iraq recorded a government budget deficit of 853060 IQD Million in October of 2019. Government Budget Value in Iraq averaged 9635610.35 IQD Million from 2004 until 2019, reaching an all time high of 61244368 IQD Million in August of 2015 and a record low of -13581445 IQD Million in September of 2012. The government budget balance is the difference between government revenues and expenses. The budget is balanced when outlays equal to receipts, the country reports budget surplus when revenues are higher than expenses and deficit when expenses exceed the revenues. This page provides - Iraq Government Budget Value - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.




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Gambia Government Budget Value

Gambia recorded a government budget deficit of 1415.66 Dalasi Million in the third quarter of 2019. Government Budget Value in Gambia averaged -831.01 Dalasi Million from 2008 until 2019, reaching an all time high of 95.19 Dalasi Million in the first quarter of 2011 and a record low of -2929.01 Dalasi Million in the third quarter of 2017. This page provides - Gambia Government Budget Value- actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.




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Japan Government Budget Value

Japan recorded a government budget deficit of 27633 JPY HND Million in the fourth quarter of 2019. Government Budget Value in Japan averaged -33660.14 JPY HND Million from 1964 until 2019, reaching an all time high of 91505 JPY HND Million in the first quarter of 2008 and a record low of -347513 JPY HND Million in the fourth quarter of 1998. The government budget balance is the difference between government revenues and expenses. The budget is balanced when outlays equal to receipts, the country reports budget surplus when revenues are higher than expenses and deficit when expenses exceed the revenues. This page provides - Japan Government Budget Value - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.