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Streamlining taxes and duties

Taxation is considered the principal source of government earnings. What the government earns through taxes is spent on multidimensional services like security, social safety, health care, roads and bridges, transport, education and other services. Therefore, governments usually emphasise on enlarging the tax coverage and tax providers net. Acts were enacted...

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Trump's protectionist quagmire

After World War II, the United States led the world in reducing protectionist barriers and establishing an open, rules-based trade system. That effort resulted in a half-century of the most rapid economic growth in human history. But US President Donald Trump's administration is now reversing that progress. The protectionism that...

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George H.W. Bush - the man who ended the cold war in a peaceful way

Former US President George Herbert Walker Bush died late Friday (November 30, 2018) in his home in Houston. He was 94. He was suffering from a form of Parkinson's disease. His wife of more than 70 years, Barbara Bush, died in April 2018. (They were the longest-married presidential couple in...

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