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Despite lockdown surge the firm’s Luxembourg unit made a €1.2bn loss and therefore paid zero corporation tax Read More.

LINCOLN — State lawmakers balked Wednesday at a proposal to scrap Nebraska’s existing taxes and replace them with a first-in-the-nation consumption tax. Read More.

🇺🇸 The Grassroots Corner - Week Beginning 5/10/21: “Meet Candidate Marissa Selvig” Read More.

BEIJING — China’s exports surged more than expected in April as global demand for Chinese goods remained elevated amid countries’ varying stages of dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. Read More.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is calling on the wealthy to pay their fair share of taxes and to close the tax gap by improving tax compliance and audits. Read More.

Amazon's European business paid no corporation tax last year despite record sales of £38billion. Read More.

Unemployment unexpectedly rose to 6.1% Read More.

While many in the media were praising President Biden’s speech to Congress about his plans to spend as much as $6 trillion dollars in the next few years, Dr. Douglas Holtz-Eaton, the director of the Congressional Budget Office from 2003 to 2005, wrote an article entitled, The Fine Art of Making Things Add Up.  Read More.

Australia's corporate watchdog accused Westpac Banking Corp (WBC.AX) of insider trading while financing a A$16 billion ($12 billion) energy grid privatisation in 2016, the latest in a series of regulatory problems for the country's No. 2 lender. Read More.

Investors can add bitcoin and ethereum to their portfolios through new cryptocurrency indexes available on Wall Street trading floors. Read More.

Facebook’s “Supreme Court” has upheld Mark Zuckerberg’s blacklisting of former President Donald Trump’s accounts temporarily, giving Facebook another six months to announce whether it will be lifting the suspension or deleting Trump’s pages. Read More.

Cast members reportedly will not be required to appear in the controversial episode Read More.

Michael Kail was indicted in 2018 on 19 counts of wire fraud, three counts of mail fraud, and seven counts of money laundering Read More.

Cryptocurrency ether hit a record high of $3,017 on Monday, extending last week's rally in the wake of a report that the European Investment Bank (EIB) could launch a digital bond sale on the ethereum blockchain network. Read More.

🇺🇸 The Grassroots Corner - Week Beginning 5/3/21: “Meet the Most Senior FAIRtax Supporter” Read More.