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The Ministry of Health has promoted the fulfilment of one of the objectives set in the Conference of Presidents on 22 July: to ensure that 80 percent of those over 60 in Spain have their booster dose of the COVID vaccine before the end of the year. This percentage was achieved on Tuesday and in …
The tax system of a country has two key elements: tax policy and tax administration. The political economy analysis is vital to understand the factors responsible for facilitating and hindering tax reforms in tax policy and administration in a country and taking reform measures. FACTORS INHIBITING TAX REFORMS IN BANGLADESH Article 83 of the Bangladesh Constitution stipulates that no tax shall be levied or collected except by or under the authority of an act of Parliament. This highlights that taxation is a political phenomenon in Bangladesh. The political economy of tax reform...
Last year marked the 60th anniversary of the Birmingham Railway Carriage & Wagon Company’s Type 3, better known as the Class 33, or simply the ‘Crompton’. Mark Nicholls recounts the type’s history. In British Railways’ 1955 Modernisation Plan there was little interest for a Type 3 power category, covering locos in the 1,500-2,000hp range, but that was soon found to be a mistake. The Type 3 was actually one of the most flexible of all, able to provide a loco capable of varied mixed traffic use for light and medium freight and passenger work. It also had the ability to haul heavy loa...