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Shameless self-promotion of the non-profit for which I am Board Chair. People for Urban Progress has been working with Amtrak over the last few months - in secret - to develop a line of bags that re-use the seat covers from their first class trains. Im very excited to be able to announce that the...

With no orderly policy, measures to increase the tax take are creating uncertainty for global tech giants and local startups alike.

Though Justin Lelesch has been Abilenes Animal Services director since the end of April, his roughly five-year tenure at the citys animal shelter makes him a "known quantity," City Manager Robert Hanna said. Thats important, as Hanna and others hope his tenure will curb what has been a recent history of rapidly-rotating leadership at the shelter, build better community relations and open the door to an improved facility, partly funded by private dollars.  Counting interim director Michael Br...

Tech giants would have to pay 15% corporate tax in Israel, without Israel being blamed for the hike.

Justin Lelesch late Thursday was named the city of Abilenes director of Animal Services Thursday. According to the statement, Lelesch has worked for the city since 2016, when he was hired as a kennel technician. Over the past five years, he has has been promoted to animal control officer, field supervisor and now director. Lelesch assumes his role immediately. “Im pleased to be able to hire a known commodity and one who will continue the life-saving policies we have put into place over th...

Feb. 15, 2021 High-tech executives are warning that the Israel Tax Authority could undermine the work of many of the hundreds of multinational research and development centers in the country if it goes through with plans to revise the way many of them are taxed. The authority is weighing a plan to stop calculating taxes based on the cost-plus system, in which a fixed rate of profit is derived from the center’s costs. Instead, it would tax them based on their parent company’s global profits ...

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