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Number One Most Generous Donor for 2011 Died in 2006
Margaret Cargill holds the number one spot on The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s annual list of America’s 50 most generous donors. Margaret tops the list with a $6 million bequest, but she passed away in 2006, so how could this be?...
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Article on Tax and the Nobel Prize
Bridget J. Crawford (Professor of Law, Pace University School of Law) and Jonathan G. Blattmachr (Milbank , Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP) recently published their article entitled, The Tax Man Wins the Nobel Prize, Tax Notes, Vol. 133, p. 1421...
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Reporting Frequent Flier Miles as Income?
Citibank gave customers frequent flier miles when they opened an account and now Citibank is sending all of these clients 1099 forms to report these miles as income. The bank valued these miles at 2.5 cents a mile, but really...
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Super Bowl Indicator
The Super Bowl indicator is one of the indicators that investors and traders watch for. The Super Bowl indicator “is based on the premise that if the Super Bowl Champion came from the old AFL, now known as the AFC,...
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Annuities in Retirement Plans
Last Thursday, the Treasury Department released a proposal that would make it possible for individuals to buy “longevity” annuities using a portion of employer-sponsored retirement plan savings. A separate proposal would allow partial annuity options for traditional pension plans. A...
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