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Alert Vanguard Client Service Leads To Intervention In Elder Abuse Case
The Santa Clara County model differs from other financial abuse prevention teams in that “rapid response” by the team members is a central component. “Immediacy is important to freeze assets and to prevent financial destitution,” says Lee Pullen, Director of the Department of Aging and Adult Services. When APS receives a call through its telephone hotline, APS immediately determines whether the case is appropriate for FAST. A referral to FAST triggers a prompt visit to the elder or dependent adult by at least two members of the team
Even Ernie Land Cannot Get Kent Hovind To Shut Up About Some Things
I asked Ernie Land of Creation Science Ministries, Inc to weigh in on the Hovind family dispute currently roiling a tiny bubble of the internet, that I don't seem to be...
Kent Hovind Calls The Dogs Out On His Own Family
Well now Kent Hovind has really aggravated me. In this recent conversation with knome king (Bob Baty idenitfies KK as Mark Hill), in an extreme burst of TMI, he lets...
Massachusetts Hits Yacht Owner With Use Tax
When he purchased Odyssey the insurance paperwork indicated that he would be docking it in New Bedford (The famous whaling port just across Buzzard’s Bay where the fellow who you were to call Ishmael shipped out with Captain Ahab). Documentation with the Coast Guard and Homeland Security indicated Fairhaven was the home port. Probably worst was that Fairhaven was emblazoned on the stern of the yacht. And of course there was no use tax paid to Florida, which Mr. Brodsky had testified was the yacht’s intended home.
Review: Disrupted By Daniel Lyons, As Read By An Accountant
I ended up not having a tremendous amount of sympathy for Lyons. I encountered many of the problems he did as I had a bad culture fit in the waning days of my career and annoyed mysterious powers that be with my on-line presence. I don’t think I whined about it nearly as much, but that’s not what I found really interesting about Disrupted. It was the accounting stuff in there that really grabbed me. Balance sheets and income statements, the stuff of life.
Why General James Mattis Might Not Run For President
You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway....
Hovind Family Drama – Real Creationists Of Escambia County
Hovindology is a terrible thing for a busy tax blogger to fall into. I have been following the drama of Young Earth Creationist Kent Hovind since the fall of 2012 when...
Left Face – 1970 – The Xavier Class Lamented By Antonin Scalia – Part VI
"Education in Jesuit schools seeks to transform how youth look at themselves and other human beings, at social systems and societal structures, at the global community...
Clinton, Sanders Somewhat Confusing Vigorous Agreement On Social Security Cap
The social security cap, along with the way “Medicare for all” is financed, is one of the biggest differences between the tax plans released by Clinton and Sanders. Although both plans reduce the after tax income of those making over $730,000 (Sanders much more dramatically), the Clinton plan barely touches what I call “the other 4%” ($140,000 to $730,000), the Sanders plan reduces their after tax income by over 10%.
Much of that difference comes from the Sanders plan fooling with the income cap on social security tax. Social security tax still gets turned off at $118,500 under the Sanders plan, but it gets switched back on at $250,000. That change would have cost the Clintons over $2 million on their 2014 returns and the Sanders, well, zero. The challenge in the debate was to Clinton as to whether she would support the cap change in order to shore up social security.
Friedman LLP Survey Of Business Leaders On Tax Issues Has Surprising Results
Just over half of the respondents with international transactions found the international tax environment at least somewhat overwhelming. On a perhaps encouraging note, 65% of the business leaders indicated that they would not move their intangible property and logistical functions outside the United States even if it meant achieving a tax rate as low as 10%. The folks at Friedman seem to think that they are missing out.