This rate would now also bite on the tax paid in each country individually rather than on a global blend of all foreign earnings. Effectively, if a company paid 12.5 per cent in Ireland it might, under this plan, end up paying an extra 8.5 per cent tax on its Irish income in the US. US treasury secretary, Janet Yellen, strongly backs the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development corporate tax reform process.
Essentially this would represent a tax on US multinational activity in Ireland and other countries. Confirmation this week that the Democrats can circumvent the famous filibuster in the US Senate by using procedural changes make the prospect of the proposals passing through Congress by summer more real.
"We will protest against the central government s attempt to politicise a serious issue of shortage of vaccine doses by banging of thalis (plates) and ringing of bells outside those vaccination centres that had to be shut due to the non-availability of doses," Patole said.
India News: In an apparent dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi tweeted in Hindi, "No control over coronavirus, not enough vaccines,
Get on it Joe! : How a strengthening gun violence prevention coalition pushed Biden to act
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U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on gun violence prevention in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 8, 2021. (Yuri Gripas/Abaca Press/TNS)Yuri Gripas / TNS
WASHINGTON In the first two months of President Joe Biden’s administration, many of the nation’s most powerful gun violence prevention groups were dismayed with the leadership of the man they thought was going to be their strongest champion.
While they were receiving private meetings, they felt American gun deaths were placed on the back-burner by an administration single-mindedly pursing the COVID-19 pandemic. After multiple mass shootings and deaths in March, Alexis Confer, executive director of March for Our Lives, and Greg Jackson, national advocacy director at Community Justice Action Fund, flipped texts message back and forth saying “we’ve got to do something.”
Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram (File photo)
NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram accused the government on Sunday of covering up its failure as regards the vaccination drive against Covid-19 through rhetoric and hyperbole and demanded that it be made a walk-in exercise.
He also asked the government to provide funds to ramp up vaccine production and increase supplies as well as to authorise the use of more approved vaccines and allow their import.
The former minister criticised terming the vaccination drive an utsav (festival), as suggested by the Prime Minister, and said it is a crusade instead. What does one say when the government wants to call the vaccination drive an utsav ? By no stretch of imagination can it be a festival. The vaccination drive is a crusade, he said.