More tax, fee cuts likely this year By OUYANG SHIJIA | China Daily | Updated: 2021-05-12 09:33 A taxation bureau official (left) answers a taxpayer s queries in Fuzhou, capital of Fujian province. [Photo/Xinhua]
China will continue to cut taxes and fees this year as part of the ongoing efforts to save costs for enterprises, the nation s top economic regulator said.
Nineteen targeted measures have been announced to reduce corporate costs, support the real economy and boost the vitality of the market this year, said a document released by the National Development and Reform Commission and three other ministries on Monday.
The measures include further optimizing taxes and fee cuts, bringing down government-imposed transaction costs, cutting labor costs for enterprises, canceling or lowering some highway and civil aviation charges and improving transport and logistics infrastructure.
The jailhouses werenât jumping to much over the weekend, with the exception of Boyd County, which saw an influx of federal inmates moving through as they await court hearings at the federal court house in downtown Ashland.
While a few notorious names found themselves on the booking logs at Boyd, lock-ups were light, for the most part â fewer than five of the inmates booked over the weekend at Boyd were due to charges incurred on the street.
Bench warrants made a good bulk of the arrests over the weekend as well, especially at the Big Sandy Regional Detention Center.
(CNN) -Â Robert Aaron Long, the suspect in the shootings that left eight people dead at three Atlanta-area Asian spas, has been indicted on murder charges, with prosecutors seeking the death penalty for hate crimes targeting the sex and race of the victims.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis filed notice with the Fulton Superior Court Tuesday that she plans to seek the death penalty and enhanced hate crimes charges against Long in the first test of a hate crime law passed by the Georgia Legislature last year. I, along with my staff, have made a determination that this office will seek the death penalty, Willis told reporters. Last year, I told the voters of Fulton County that I could not imagine a circumstance where I would seek it. And at that time I did not.
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This cat was one of 14 dogs and cats abandoned in a Lebanon home. Charges of animal cruelty have been filed against the pet owner. File photo
LEBANON A Lebanon woman is facing one count of animal cruelty for abandoning seven dogs and seven cats in a home on South Meridian Street.
Faren Taylor has been summoned for an initial hearing Tuesday morning in Boone Circuit Court. If convicted of the Class A misdemeanor, Taylor could spend a year in prison.
Authorities rescued 14 dogs and cats from the abandoned residence on April 7. The home was trashed and had an excessive accumulation of fecal matter and urine everywhere. The animals were significantly underweight and most did not have food and water, according to Boone County Animal Control officer Deputy Hannah Fisher said.