Majority of the local stock brokerages have remained outside the US-mandated reportorial compliance among foreign financial institutions, a worldwide campaign designed to flush out hidden overseas wealth and minimize tax abuse among Americans and green card holders through offshore accounts.
The Internet's Own Boy depicts the life of American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist Aaron Swartz. It features interviews...
In June 2010, Andrew Auernheimer, a well-known Internet-security expert, discovered a gaping hole in AT&T's website that exposed 114,000 e-mail addresses belonging to the wireless giant's Apple iPad customers.
We often say, upon the passing of a friend or loved one, that the world is a poorer place for the loss. But with the untimely death of programmer and activist Aaron Swartz, this isn't just a sentiment; it's literally true. Worthy, important causes will surface without a champion equal to their measure. Technological problems will go unsolved, or be solved a little less brilliantly than they might have been. And that's just what we know. The world is robbed of a half-century of all the things we can't even imagine Aaron would have accomplished with the remainder of his life.
The Berne Convention is the primary international legislation covering copyright protection. This fact sheet explains the Berne Convention and how the rules of the convention are applied.
Today ushers in a new provision of the health reform law that makes additional preventive health services – from contraception to HPV testing -- available for free to an estimated 47 million women.
JPMorgan Chase has revealed that it lost $2 billion. The simplest solution, in the wake of this mess, is to once again separate commercial and investment banking, as was required by the Glass Steagall Act.
Articles 77 through 134 of the UCMJ are known as the "punitive articles," -- that is, specific offenses which, if violated, can result in punishment by court-martial. Here is information about Article 134General article.
If you have lots of money, Tuesday, April 17, was one of the best tax days since the early 1930s: Top tax rates on ordinary income, dividends, estates, and gifts remain at or near historically low levels. That’s thanks, in part, to legislation passed in December 2010 by the 111th Congress and signed
Read 'CISPA supporters list: 800+ companies that could help Uncle Sam snag your data' on Digital Trends. As the campaign against the Cyber Intelligence...
“no suit for the purpose of restraining the assessment or collection of any tax shall be maintained in any court by any person.” In other words, people who object to taxes must pay first and litigate later.
When President Barack Obama signed the health care bill two years ago, the legal challenges to the law were widely belittled as long shots — at best. But as the cases head to the Supreme Court this week, what looked to many like far-out legal arguments to undo “Obamacare” don’t seem so zany anymore. “If you don’t...
After his own experience dealing with a mortgage mess, Nye Lavalle set out to learn all he could about the mortgage industry, traveling nationwide to dig into records. In 2003, he compiled a dossier of practices at Fannie Mae. In hindsight, the problems he found look like a blueprint of today's foreclosure crisis.
"If we can no longer provide information to the public because of rules and fees dictated to us by the rights holders, what purpose would we serve?... If we cannot secure these rights, it is not only libraries that lose but also our patrons. They will lose access to the depth and breadth of human knowledge."