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RBA puts Posta Scheme under administration over Sh1bn benefits
The move by the Retirement Benefits Authority (RBA) effectively disbands the scheme’s board pending appointment of an administrator within a month.
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What Pandemic? Billionaires Are Getting Richer During COVID While the Economy and Labor Force Tank
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He was blackballed by the NFL after silently protesting police brutality by silently taking a knee on the sidelines during the national anthem at the start of NFL
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Tax on business transfers likely to stifle economy
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Developed world must work with Africa on Covid-19 – Ramaphosa
South African president and African Union (AU) chairperson Cyril Ramaphosa says the deadly coronavirus outbreak has affected both developed and developing countries, but it's the latter who are expected to suffer the
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Angola: National Assembly Approves Property Tax
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Aww Damn: Black Billionaire Who Promised To Pay Tuition Debt of Morehouse Students Admits To Tax Fraud
According to the Department of Justice, Smith used third party accounts to conceal his income and commit tax evasion from 2000 to 2015. The DOJ stated that Smith, who is the CEO of Vista Equity Partners, intentionally did not report over $200 million of partnership income.
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Uganda: Government Increases Import Duty On Agricultural Products to 60 Percent
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India to Tax Money Sent Abroad – The Wilmington Journal
Indians depositing money abroad for education, travel or other purposes will now have to pay a tax on the amount of up to 5 percent. Analysts say the new tax, which the government initiated as [...]
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Tavis Smiley To Host Joint Interview With African American Senators Cory Booker (D-N.J.) And Tim Scott (R-S.C.)
Tavis Smiley on PBS, returning for its 12th season on Monday, Jan. 12, will feature a two-part, exclusive joint interview during its premiere week with the only two African Americans in the U.S. Senate – New Jersey Democrat Cory Booker, and South Carolina Republican Tim
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Rwanda: How Government Will Fund 2020/21 Budget Amidst Financial Constraints
[New Times] Unlike previous budgets, the 2020/21 budget presented to parliament earlier this week did not specify any new fiscal policies to boost revenue mobilization.
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Africa: Walter Rodney and 2020 Africa
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California’s coronavirus stimulus was a bust…what now? - Black Voice News
In summary State lawmakers aimed for a $600-a-week unemployment extension and billions in tax vouchers. Federal inaction, economic anxiety and the pandemic derailed those plans. So much for California saving itself from the economic wreckage of the coronavirus. As state lawmakers ended the year
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African Countries Struggle to Find the Coronavirus Test Kits They Need
"Test, test, test" has been the mantra for defeating the novel coronavirus, but African countries are finding themselves at the end of a long global queue for the chemical reagents and other commodities necessary for administering diagnostic tests, according to public health
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MWINZI: Growing e-commerce makes Digital Services Tax timely
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Africa: Why Malaria Treatment Shouldn't Take a Back Seat to COVID-19
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Will Californians pass new taxes?
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Zimbabwe: Internet Access a Human Right - Misa
Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) Zimbabwe has launched a campaign urging the telecommunications regulator to reduce internet charges, saying recent increases in data violate fundamental human rights to access
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Africa tasks China to scale up COVID-19 support as Xi meets leaders
The African Union has urged China to actively support the continent in the fight against the Coronavirus
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West African government ministers have proposed re-opening borders between their countries in the first half of July and allowing in travellers from other countries with low or controlled levels of COVID-19 spread by the end of
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Africa: To Stop Butchering of Citizens, Africa Should Support Rome Statute
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