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...At the federal level, there is a record $688bn tax gap of uncollected revenue that needs to be closed. The IRS has finally begun to make real progress on enforcement in this area....
...KuperSimon and email him at simon.kuper@ft.com Follow @FTMag to find out about our latest stories first Letter in response to this article: IRS is right to avoid allure of unworkable tax schemes / From John Breaux...
...“It’s never lost on me that my surname is a by-product of slavery in the US,” he says of Breaux, a common surname in a part of the country that saw enslaved African people brought to the area by the French...
...Nick Fourcade’s beat is the Bayou Breaux district of Louisiana....
...Led by former senators Trent Lott and John Breaux, they are pushing to add an amendment granting oil companies immunity from environmental lawsuits to a bill calling for taxes on carbon heavy industries....
...As a result, Mr Breaux says he has seen many advisers choosing to be paid on a fee-only basis — shunning commission....
...“People may want to date a wild and crazy person, but ultimately they don’t want to marry them,” says John Breaux, a former Democratic senator from Louisiana....
...Something tells me that the ghost of the now-disbanded Democratic Leadership Council, composed of pro-growth centrists like Nunn, Robb, Breaux and McCurdy, is not about to reappear....
...A number of market participants have highlighted the need for a more effective approach than using traditional benchmarks as measures of success, says John Kreig, a managing director at Northern Trust Global...
...That accelerated after passage of the Breaux Act 20 years ago that mandated projects to create more than 100,000 acres of new marshland....
...Northrop last week hired a lobbying firm run by Trent Lott, the former Mississippi Republican senator, and John Breaux, a former Democratic senator from Louisiana....
...We have a good story to tell,” he says. Mr Breaux’s task may be made easier by a recent changing of the guard at several big drugmakers, including Pfizer, the world’s largest....
...While Republican and Democratic leaders were subject to intense pressure from outside groups representing the “base” of their parties, “the balance of power” was with the moderates, said John Breaux, a centrist...
...“I don’t think I’ve ever seen the political mood as toxic as this,” says John Breaux, a former Democratic senator and now a lobbyist based in Washington....
...Mr Mack served from 1989-2001, and Mr Breaux retired this week after 18 years in the Senate. Mr Breaux has long been considered a valuable broker between the parties....
...But Mr Breaux is retiring from the Senate and is expected to pursue a lucrative lobbying position....
...The studio heads first set their sights on two legislators with more star power - Billy Tauzin, a congressman, and John Breaux, a senator....
...One appointee, Fred Hatfield, is a former chief of staff to democratic senator John Breaux. The other, Michael Dunn, has spent most of his career in agricultural credit....
...of John Breaux, a retiring Democratic senator....
...Former Senator John Breaux suggested discouraging early collection of Social Security benefits. The late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan recommended changing the way benefits are calculated....
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