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...At a Brookings Institution event in September, Ryan called Moore v US a “misguided challenge” adding: “I’m not for a wealth tax, but I think if you use this as the argument to spike a wealth tax, you’re...
...Britain’s value-added tax regime slaps a 20 per cent levy on a large number of goods, but many foods are exempted. Recognised flapjacks are in this zero-rated group....
...A vibrant, generous dramatisation of Andrea Levy’s great 2004 novel, it begins by making you smile and ends by breaking your heart. Part of the genius of Levy’s novel is its narrative style....
...She also notes a set of colourful men’s silk waistcoats from the 18th century pulled from the V&A collection....
...Antoine GodinUniversité Sorbonne Paris Nord, France Michael JacobsProfessor of Political Economy, University of Sheffield Ronan PalmerDirector Clean Economy, E3G Dirk EhntsPufendorf-Gesellschaft Berlin e.V....
...It had been passed as a health and social care levy, which people broadly bought into at the time....
...In a diplomatic triumph for the Kremlin, Russia's Sputnik V vaccine had a reported 91.6 per cent efficacy rate in clinical trials according to a peer review study published in the Lancet....
...diplomatic wranglings and trade wars were dying down, the EU this week contrived to crank up tensions with Russia, after the European Medicines Agency questioned the ethics behind trials of the Sputnik V...
...In general, luxury’s pricing power allows levies to be passed on to the consumers. French cheesemakers may find it harder. Americans might not feel they have to eat Roquefort....
...Thursday that former employees of insolvent companies should receive higher pension payouts if they are at risk of falling into poverty, in a case brought by an employee of a German company, known as PSV v...
...Letter in response to this article: Oil price crunch could be bad news for Russia / From Andrei V Belyi, University of Eastern Finland...
...Should we cancel V S Naipaul? He only died last year, so perhaps it’s “too soon” to ask such an impertinent question....
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...I’m eager to read my friend Steven Levy’s new inside take on the rise and fall of Facebook....
...McKellen recalls: “Ken asked me to be in his film Henry V and I couldn’t due to other things. But I thought ‘You cheeky young actor, how dare you make a film of Henry V? That’s been done.’...
...Alabama senators approved a near-total ban on abortion, a move aimed at overturning the Roe v Wade ruling that gave women the right to terminate pregnancies....
...He criticised Republicans’ 2017 tax cuts and Democrats’ plans for a new wealth levy. But he failed to provide counter proposals about how much tax billionaires should pay....
...Washington renewed the tit-for-tat tariff clash on Friday, raising levies on $200bn of Chinese imports....
...(FT) Milan v Madrid Southern Europe’s two main financial centres were both hit by the 2008 crash, but prices in Madrid have raced ahead of those in its Italian cousin since....
...(Reuters) Google v commission v Google The US tech giant appealed against the commission’s €4bn Android decision on Tuesday, just hours after the EU competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager told parliament...
...Opposition parties claimed the new proposals did not go far enough and some protesters want ‘Act V’ of the demonstrations to take place on Saturday throughout France....
...(FT) Xi v Deng A series of hasty revamps to an exhibition in celebration of China’s “reform and opening up” has sparked a contest of narratives over who was responsible for the pivotal reforms started 40...
...Back in 1999, Rifkind Levy picked up a 999-year lease on disused railway tunnels underground, behind Lords’ Nursery End....
...Sign up for our Weekend Email here Photographs: Alastair Levy; David Stewart; Tamasine Osher...
...Last year these included a pair of 14th-century marble lions from the tomb of Charles V of France (sold for £9.3m) and a Jiaqing period dinner service (c1805, $1.1m)....
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