tax free weekend in Texas Every August, Texas has a ″tax free weekend.″ School supplies and school clothes can be purchased for a few days without the addition of Texas′ 6 1/4 % sales tax – which, around Houston, is really 8 1/4% because of the additional penny for the City of Houston and the additional penny for METRO. What about college textbooks? Have you priced them lately? Ours isn′t too bad (free, right?), but some of my students pay nearly $300 for some science and engineering books. Representative Terry Canales (D-Edinburg) wants to cut college students in on the action before each regular semester. Go to the Texas Legislature′s website, https://capitol.texas.gov/Home.aspx (Links to an external site.) and look up House Bill 21. Hint: Make sure you use the little pull-down menu to select the current legislative session (86R-2019 – that′s the 86th Regular session of the Texas Legislature) and type HB21 in the search window. What do you think? [unique_solution]Write a 2 – 5 page essay explaining this bill and the problem it′s trying to solve. Explain the advantages…

Banks cut deposit rates to 3-year low Banks reduced interest to 40-month sub inflation low in December on customer’s savings, showing the impact of doing away with controls amid growing profits. Data from Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) shows the average saving interest drop to 4.02 percent, which is the lowest since 2016 when it was 3.79 percent. The interest rate on saving was 4.31 percent last year, while the inflation rate was 5.2 percent. The interest rate recovered slightly to 4.2 percent in February this year. This shows a significant difference when compared to 2018 when the interest rate on saving was an average of 6.37 percent, which was way above the average inflation of 4.67 percent. However, interest paid on large deposits from loaded clients who usually have room for negotiation reached 7 percent for the first time since last June. It was an average of 7.11 percent in December and 7.06 percent in February. The latest cut on deposit rates paid to savers was when the bank’s pre-tax profit grew by 4.99 percent. They moved from Sh…

TAX REFORM FOR ACCELERATION AND INCLUSION In order to find out the effects of Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) Law toward the basic commodities sold in Baguio City public market, the researchers collect thorough information by conducting an interview with 12 respondents from Baguio City public market regarding their experiences and perspectives on the effects of Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) Law to their business. The researchers asked the respondents about the changes on their selling price, customer demands and sales performance. The researchers chose the following themes: increase in transportation fees, product unaffordability, decrease in product demand and increase in expenses. [unique_solution]Moreover, the price set for a product or service has a very significant effect on how the consumer behaves when price is significantly unaffordable or higher than expected, the response can be disappointing (Balle, 2019). Rising prices will reduce demand if consumers are able to find substitutions or alternatives, but have less impact on demand when alternatives are not available (Kramer, 2019). The effect of Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) Law toward…

                          Carbon Tax The carbon tax is the fee that the government charges on the combustion of carbon-related elements such as natural gas, oil, gasoline, or coal. The burning of these abundant carbon fuels produces greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane, which causes global warming by heating the atmosphere. The carbon tax purpose is to show the real cost of combusting carbon. The carbon tax is majorly used by economists to lower and ultimately discourage the burning of coal-based fuel that significantly leads to global climate change (Dinan, 2012). Economists view the carbon tax as the only way to have the carbon-related fuel users get charged for causing climate damage by producing carbon dioxide to the environment. A carbon tax, if raised high, economists view it as a powerful monetary tool that enables the users to move to other clean sources of energy available. The cost is incurred by the companies and consumers to pay for the external effects they cause on the global Climate. Economists view the carbon tax as a good policy because it lowers the…

Evaluation of a program Evaluation of a program refers to the use of social research procedures to systematically investigate the effectiveness of social intervention programs. The social evaluator uses various methods of social research for study, appraisal, and to help improve essential aspects of the plan (Rossi et al.). This situation includes the diagnosis of related social problems. In most instances, the policymakers who fund organizations, the managers of the programs, the taxpayers, and other interest parties tend to establish the effectiveness of an application. They have the interest to know how important such programs are. In so doing, they must find the answers to essential questions, including the nature and scope of the problem (this relates to the location and its effects on the society). Besides, they must evaluate whether the identified results justify the implementation of a new approach or to modify or expand the existing ones. Moreover, the evaluators must determine the best intervention that can be applied (Rossi et al.). Finally, the identified response should be that which reaches a large population, the cost and the…

 challenges of mining association rules with item taxonomy Assignment #3 (100 point) Students are required to submit the assignment 3 to your instructor for grading. The assignments are on the assigned materials/textbook topics associated with the course modules. Please read the following instruction and complete it to post on schedule. Consider the data set shown in Table 5.20 (439 page). (Chapter 5) (a) Compute the support for itemsets {e}, {b, d}, and {b, d, e} by treating each transaction ID as a market basket. (b) Use the results in part (a) to compute the confidence for the association rules {b, d} −→ {e} and {e} −→ {b, d}. Is confidence a symmetric measure? (c) Use the results in part (c) to compute the confidence for the association rules {b, d} −→ {e} and {e} −→ {b, d}. Consider the transactions shown in Table 6.15, with an item taxonomy given in Figure 6.15 (515 page). (Chapter 6) (a) What are the main challenges of mining association rules with item taxonomy? (b) Consider the approach where each transaction t is replaced by…

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Taxation of International transactions Introduction Taxation refers to money collection from involuntary levies. It is a government function which is compulsory. It applies to individual incomes, capital gains and estate taxes. Taxation happens both domestically and internationally. In international taxation, tax levies are deducted in accordance with tax laws of different nations. The taxing procedure varies from one government to another. This makes it difficult to determine a general procedure that can be used to levy international taxes. Instead, the taxes are levied with respect to the measures of income generated from economic activities.  For example, the net income presented by accounting transactions such as profits from gross incomes and gross margins (Charles and Robert 2011). Tax laws, impose income levies more on business enterprise than on individual earnings. The jurisdiction suggests that all business entities be taxed in a uniform manner for all types of income earned while individual levies are taxed with respect to the sources of income and the amount earned as well. Many tax laws pertaining enterprise taxation emphasis on double taxation where an enterprise is…

Morphology and Syntax 2017-18   Your answer should include four sections; number these 1–4 in your assignment and use the bolded word in each of the specified tasks below as section headings.   First look at sentences 1–15, then at the rest of the data. This language has a case-marking system. List the case forms in a table and give appropriate labels for the cases Describe what the case system is for marking A, S and O arguments. Use (a-b) as subheadings to make sure you cover everything in a logical way Still looking just at the simple sentences (1–15), examine the verb structure. What grammatical categories are shown in the verb in simple sentences?  Which morphemes show what? List the morphemes in a table, logically arranged according to the categories they express. Provide a template to demonstrate the overall pattern of the verb structure (e.g. S/O-tense-√Vroot-aspect). Say what sort of cross-referencing system is found in this language, and why. Use (a-c) as subheadings to make sure you cover everything in a logical way. Now move on to sentences 16-36,…

Tax refund Tax refund season is around the corner, and you need to equip yourself with all the tools and information to get your 2020 IRS tax refund. If you have not filed your application for tax refund yet, it’s never too late to get things in order to estimate your 2020 tax refund. You should never wait for the last date to start preparing for the tax refund. If you are expecting your tax refund, you are not alone as there are millions of other taxpayers that are supposed to get the tax refund 2020. Almost three in four tax filers will receive tax refunds in 2020. There are many factors that are used to estimate the tax refund. The formula to calculate the tax refund is really simple: Tax refund= your total income taxes due for the year- the amount of federal income taxes withheld If the amount that is deducted from your paychecks is more than the amount that you owe to tax authorities, you will receive a tax refund. There are many other factors involved that…