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Thirty-six economies made it easier to pay taxes in 2007/08. As in previous years, the most popular reform feature was reducing the profit tax rate, done in no fewer than 21 economies. The second most popular was introducing and improving electronic filing and payment systems. This reform, done in 12 economies, reduced the frequency of payments and the time spent and filing returns. Eight economies reduced the number of taxes paid by businesses by eliminating smaller taxes such as stamp duties. The top 10 reformers for this year reduced the number of payments by almost half. Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Morocco, Mozambique and Zambia revised their tax codes (table 8.2).
In Latin America and the Caribbean, besides the reforms in the Dominican Republic, Anti...
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HARRISBURG, Pa., Jan. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The more than 6.1 million Pennsylvania taxpayers who file annual state personal income tax returns may now begin filing electronically for the 2010 tax year.
Taxpayers have until midnight, Monday, April 18, to file income tax returns, according to Revenue Secretary C. Daniel Hassell, who said information about tax filing options is available at www.revenue.state.pa.us.
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To: STATE EDITORS
Contact: Stephanie Weyant of Pennsylvania Department of Revenue, +1-717-787-6960
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Talking about the need to put medical records in electronic form is easy.
Actually designing and implementing such a system is another, far more complicated matter, as officials and constituent members of the District of Columbia Primary Care Association (DCPCA) are learning daily.
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Lanna Cairns, an organizing consultant and founder of Organized World, which recently relocated from Napa, Calif., to Salt Lake City, helps companies and employees increase productivity, and sometimes sanity, with hands-on "space planning." Even law firms and real estate agencies, required by law to keep documents for specific amounts of time, can implement electronic filing systems, Cairns said.
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To: TECHNOLOGY EDITORS
Contact: Stephanie Weyant of the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue, +1-717-787-6960
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ALBANY, N.Y. -- Electronic unemployment filing systems have crashed in at least three states in recent days amid an unprecedented crush of thousands of newly jobless Americans seeking benefits, and other states were adjusting their systems to avoid being next.
About 4.5 million Americans are collecting jobless benefits, a 26- year high, so the Web sites and phone systems now commonly used to file for benefits are being tested like never before.
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To: STATE EDITORS
Contact: Steve Kniley, Pennsylvania Department of Revenue, +1- 717-787-6960
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Number of users expected to increase tenfold by 1997
Only one or two years ago, companies were viewing the concept of an "electronic file cabinet" w...