Australian Tax Handbook 2017


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Published continuously since 1955, The Australian Tax Handbook is a convenient volume covering the full spectrum of income tax law and related taxes. It features clear overviews, concise explanations and worked examples to make the tax system easier to understand and apply in practice.




Australian Tax Handbook 2013


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Published continuously since 1955, The Australian Tax Handbook is a convenient volume covering the full spectrum of income tax law, related taxes and tax reform. It features clear overviews, concise explanations and worked examples to make the tax system easier to understand and apply in practice. The 2013 edition of this premier tax reference book has been given a structural renovation, with an improved chapter arrangement, and focuses on making working life easier for practitioners. Without compromising the quality of its analysis, the Handbook has shed excess commentary to more clearly set out the core tax principles it addresses. The Australian Tax Handbook's traditional strength in providing greater depth of coverage ensures it remains the premier tax research book available to today's market.




The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers


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The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers is unique in providing, in one volume, an in-depth guide to each of the multiple approaches available for coding qualitative data. In total, 29 different approaches to coding are covered, ranging in complexity from beginner to advanced level and covering the full range of types of qualitative data from interview transcripts to field notes. For each approach profiled, Johnny Saldaña discusses the method’s origins in the professional literature, a description of the method, recommendations for practical applications, and a clearly illustrated example.




Property Tax in Africa


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"Overview of property tax systems across Africa. Reviews of salient features for 29 countries and four regions (Anglophone, Francophone, Lusophone, North African countries). Chapters offer in-depth discussion of key policy issues (tax base, exemptions and other relief, and tax rate), administrative issues (valuation and assessment, billing, collection, enforcement), and the future of the property tax in Africa"--Provided by publisher.




Australian Tax Handbook


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Guide to Protecting the Confidentiality of Personally Identifiable Information


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The escalation of security breaches involving personally identifiable information (PII) has contributed to the loss of millions of records over the past few years. Breaches involving PII are hazardous to both individuals and org. Individual harms may include identity theft, embarrassment, or blackmail. Organ. harms may include a loss of public trust, legal liability, or remediation costs. To protect the confidentiality of PII, org. should use a risk-based approach. This report provides guidelines for a risk-based approach to protecting the confidentiality of PII. The recommend. here are intended primarily for U.S. Fed. gov¿t. agencies and those who conduct business on behalf of the agencies, but other org. may find portions of the publication useful.







The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies


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The big stories -- The skills of the new machines : technology races ahead -- Moore's law and the second half of the chessboard -- The digitization of just about everything -- Innovation : declining or recombining? -- Artificial and human intelligence in the second machine age -- Computing bounty -- Beyond GDP -- The spread -- The biggest winners : stars and superstars -- Implications of the bounty and the spread -- Learning to race with machines : recommendations for individuals -- Policy recommendations -- Long-term recommendations -- Technology and the future (which is very different from "technology is the future").