Regardless of faces It is generally accepted that the Supreme Court of Russia does not consider tax claims of organizations. As a rule, this is the prerogative of arbitration courts. However, two recently concluded cases show that legal entities can successfully defend their interests in the Supreme Court when tax authorities violate the law.

"Media-Most" and "Gazprom-Media" cannot agree The signing of a settlement agreement between Media-Most and Gazprom-Media has been postponed again.

Michael Franks performs at the Kremlin Palace While not a celebrity in the usual sense of the word, Michael Franks, the author and performer of lyrical compositions in a style that can be called pop-jazz, has long been well known to domestic fans of high-quality non-commercial music.

In the United States, they never tire of arguing about taxes. Especially before the elections. But in an era of economic boom, it is very reminiscent of an endless Latin American series. Massachusetts People's Republic Until 1909, when the US corporate income tax was introduced, the US government lived primarily through customs and excise taxes.

American citizens, who for the most part are not interested in the outside world, once every four years, electing the head of their state, become the arbiters of the planet's destinies. After all, the strategic course of world politics depends on the United States, the only superpower whose leadership today no one can challenge. And in this situation, the people who will occupy key foreign policy positions in the new administration become especially important.

Since January 2001, a unified social tax has been introduced in Russia, which will replace contributions to extra-budgetary funds. The procedure for calculating the new tax will differ from the old scheme: a regressive scale will be introduced. TATIANA POSTNIKOVA, deputy head of the department of state target budgetary and extra-budgetary social funds of the Ministry of Taxes of Russia of Russia, told our columnist DEMIS POLANDOV about how it will work.

“Times are tough now, so we need to get organized. My rights are constantly violated, although I am a well-known journalist in the country. I can imagine how the rights of a journalist who works for a small newspaper are violated,” this is how the chairman of the board of directors of the VID television company Aleksandrov Lyubimov explained the essence of his new idea to a correspondent of the Vremya Novostei newspaper.

For the first time in modern history, a fire occurred in the administration of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. And not just anywhere, but in the department for civil defense and emergency situations. On November 3, at about one o'clock in the afternoon, a fire broke out in one of the office premises of the department. According to the preliminary version, this happened due to a short circuit in electrical equipment.

Your idols - to your fatherland The German tax police have a grudge against their national hero, tennis player Boris Becker. The matter even went as far as prosecution. It all started in December 1996, when numerous financial papers were found in Becker's villa in Munich. Officially, from 1985 to 1993, the tennis player lived in the so-called “tax paradise for the rich” - the Principality of Monaco. However, the investigation found that all this time Becker lived at home in Germany.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs is preparing for a structural revolution The Russian police are preparing to become a superpower agency.

Primorye SOBR soldier accused of killing commander The commander of the Primorye SOBR, police major Konstantin Ilyushchenko, died on October 31 last year near the village of Aksa, Khasavyurt district of Dagestan. A year after the tragedy, his subordinate was in the dock on charges of premeditated murder of his boss.

Letter of the Ministry of Taxes and Taxes of Russia dated September 14, 200 No. VG-6-03/741 “The Russians are invincible. Because this is the only nation in the world that eats ice cream in winter,” the head of a well-known American company that sells ice cream in Russia once remarked. Russian tax officials also remembered this national feature, deciding to cheer up their compatriots before the onset of cold weather. From now on, the VAT rate on dairy ice cream has been reduced from 20% to 10%.

The New Azerbaijan Party promises voters paradise in the 21st century Tomorrow parliamentary elections will be held for the second time in independent Azerbaijan. The key role, as in previous ones, is played by the ruling New Azerbaijan Party. She built her election campaign emphasizing the successes achieved - socio-political stability, a truce in the Karabakh conflict zone and the successful use of the nation's main wealth - oil.

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"Millionairess" by Bernard Shaw, directed by Vladimir Mirzoev Mirzoev's performances never left anyone indifferent. Some claimed that his theatrical hooliganism caused all sorts of ailments in a normal person, such as arrhythmia or hypertensive crisis, others - that it increased vitality. I previously adhered to the second point of view. The premiere of “The Millionaire,” played on the stage of the Variety Theater, forced us to reconsider this opinion.