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Rifkin: Substantive Tax Equity and Adjusting the Income Tax for Regional Cost of Living Differences
Dave Rifkin (Attorney-Advisor to Tax Court Judge Juan F. Vasquez; Adjunct Professor, Georgetown) has posted Substantive Tax Equity and Adjusting the Income Tax for Regional Cost of Living Differences on SSRN...

You Only Think You Know What I Mean
Reaching an agreement that everyone understands and a document that reflects a true meeting of the minds can be challenging.  Besides the implicit and explicit legal meaning attributed to certain words, there are the individual eccentricities, regional differences and international/ cultural differences, as Jared Sandberg points out in a recent Wall Street Journal article that make [...

Rifkin on Tax & Regional Cost of Living
Dave Rifkin (Georgetown University - Law Center) has posted Substantive Tax Equity and Adjusting the Income Tax for Regional Cost of Living Differences on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Substantial variations in the cost of living among regions in the...

I'm sure this is useful somehow
MySpace is still a bit of a mystery to me. I continue to slowly stumble around and figure out what can be done with it. This morning I discovered something that I haven't seen talked about, although I'm sure there are people out there who know this...

List of Differences Between US GAAP and IFRS
Is anyone aware of the existence of a simple list of differences between the requirements of traditional US accounting (GAAP) and international financial reporting standards (IFRS)? A simple listing of the top 25 or so differences between these two systems could be a handy tool for many purposes, including for reference, research, and instruction...

Rosalind Tyson to head SEC's L.A. regional office
Rosalind Tyson was named head of the Securities and Exchange Commission's Los Angeles regional office, The Recorder reported. The selection of Tyson, who started as acting regional director at the L...

FDA Issues Update on Safety Review Orlistat
Orlistat FDA Issues Update on Safety Review

UPDATE 1: Caraco Digoxin Recall

Intuit
allegedly sent out a defective QuickBooks Pro update.

Mexican Vanilla Containing Coumarin
, FDA Issues Consumer Update