Holy Russia Tage-Taking Tactic
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I WOULD PREFER EVEN TO TODAY 1982 1989 1995 2000 QUOTE FAIL WITH HONOR THAN WIN DAY IN OF THE Richard Skrenta writes the first PC Closure of the American Workers from the National Institutes Off the coast of Ivory Coast, DAY BY CHEATING. HISTORY virus code, which is 400 lines long embassy in Kabul, Democratic of Health announce the success of Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes SOPHOCLES and disguised as an Apple boot Republic of Afghanistan. clinical trials testing the first preven- into the Atlantic Ocean, killing WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2019 program called “Elk Cloner”. tive treatment for sickle-cell disease. 169. Land, including sites in the Old Leaving a reforming not heeded. To leave when you City of Jerusalem. A decision in UNESCO was a mistake are getting what you want is pet- 2017 to designate as a Palestinian ulant. The world needs more dia- Ensure VAT World Heritage site in danger an for both the United States logue, not less. UNESCO, for all its The US area in Hebron that includes the and Israel. Both countries failings, plays an important role. TOP Cave of the Patriarchs stirred Is- should reconsider. It supports press freedom, pro- raeli outrage — with reason. The motes literacy and preserves the compliance ROGER COHEN shrine, burial site of Abraham idea of culture as the connective TWEETS4 and his wife, Sarah, is sacred to tissue of humanity. should he United States quit UN- Jews, Muslims and Christians Trump might also consider that for all ESCO, the United Nations alike. it creates jobs. For example, since Tcultural organisation, this The organisation granted full Paducah, Kentucky, a center of 01 month. It did not go quietly. A membership to Palestine in 2011, quilt making, was named part of “cesspool,” Nikki Haley called prompting the United States and UNESCO’s network of “creative transactions return to it. “Unesco is among the most Israel to stop paying dues. By the cities,” it has benefited from in- corrupt and politically biased UN time it left, the United States had creased tourism. agencies,” she tweeted. around $600 million in arrears. The real cesspool is elsewhere: True, Haley was on her way Israel, which marches in vir- in the moral depravity of a US RAMPRASAD R out the door as US ambassador tual lock step with the Trump Middle East to target Jews and government that no longer stands to the United Nations and so administration, also quit UNES- Jewish symbols.” He denounced firmly with freedom, democracy, ight now, in 99% n January 1, 2019, history was created UNESCO unconstrained in speaking her CO this month. Last year, Prime neo-Nazi and white supremacy decency, a free press and the rule Rof the counties in when the Kingdom of Bahrain’s big- mind. There’s scarcely a multi- Minister Benjamin Netanyahu groups and spoke of “tribalism of law. In the notion that “cul- America, if you are a Ogest and most important economic lateral organisation around that denounced the organisation’s run amok.” It was a conference ture” is money. In the systematic minimum-wage worker reform for the supply of Goods and Services The real cesspool is elsewhere: the wall-focused, America-first “persistent and egregious bias that merited the highest-level undermining of truth. working full time you TAX (VAT- Value added Tax) was implement- Trump administration has not against Israel.” Israeli attendance. Israel, of all countries — and cannot afford market ed. Yes, we are now into 4th week of effec- in the moral depravity of a US lambasted, threatened to leave The strange thing about all this Azoulay’s senior staff has tem- especially if its real concern is an- rate for a one-bedroom tiveness of VAT. or left. is that the US and Israeli with- pered the language of UNESCO ti-Semitism — should not move in apartment. That is un- The National Bureau for Taxation issued government that no longer In the case of the Paris-based drawals came just as UNESCO resolutions on the Middle East lock step with an administration conscionable. insights in the form of executive regulations UNESCO, the departure was a had taken serious steps to rectify post after Trump announced the “The debate about overpolit- ti-Semitism was held on the side- through diplomatic mediation, given to innuendo about cosmo- @KamalaHarris in line with the VAT law and providing pe- stands firmly with freedom, slam dunk for President Don - its bias and find mediated solu- decision to leave, Israel and Arab icisation was legitimate given lines of the UN General Assembly relegating the most sensitive lan- politan financiers and the like. riodically various guides and FAQs on VAT ald Trump. His affinity for its tions to disputes. The pullouts states have reached consensus on how the organisation was being last September. Netanyahu had guage about Israel to non-binding Leaving a reforming UNESCO related matters. Most importantly, the call democracy and decency mission of building world peace smacked in the end of stubborn a dozen UNESCO texts — a new used, especially in the last dec- shown serious interest in attend- annexes. was a mistake for both the Unit- 02 centre is responding to all VAT related queries through cultural and scientific grandstanding rather than prin- development. ade. There was a loss of credi - ing. But to offend Trump and Ha- The former Israeli ambassador ed States and Israel. The United from its hotline 80008001 and by email (vat@ co-operation is as great as his ciple. A Holocaust education website bility. I have tried hard to reduce ley was, in the end, a bridge too to UNESCO, Carmel Shama Haco- States left once before, in 1984, mof.gov.bh) without any delay. affinity for reading and scholar- No surprise there: That’s the was introduced along with the the politicisation and work for far for the Israeli prime minister. hen, compared the atmosphere only to announce its return in Although the law and its executive regu- ship. That is to say nonexistent. Trump approach to the world. United Nations’ first educational consensus.” In his speech, Secretary-Gen- last April to “a wedding.” Last 2002. Both countries should re- lations are very strict in its non-compliance, More important, UNESCO has Israel judges the price of deviat- guidelines to combat anti-Semi- She continued: “In the light of eral António Guterres did not June he welcomed a “new spirit” consider. they facilitate reliefs and solutions to reduce shown a persistent anti-Israe- ing by a millimeter from its most tism. the progress made over the past pull punches. He said anti-Sem- and said that there was a “a need (Roger Cohen is a columnist side effects from VAT implementation on li obsession, deploring and de- powerful, uncritical backer to be “UNESCO was being used for 12 months, I deeply regret the itism was “expressing itself in to re-evaluate, in full coordina- with The New York Times.) business nouncing one Israeli action after too high. things not strictly in its sphere, withdrawal of the United States, attempts to delegitimise the right tion with the US, the question of n top of human suf- One important thing should not lose sight another in ways that denied any Under Audrey Azoulay, the di- like issues of sovereignty,” Azou- a founding member, and Israel.” of Israel to exist” and used “the leaving.” (In collaboration with New York Ofering and lasting of businesses that have been given option to Jewish connection to the Holy rector-general who took up her lay told me in an interview. A UNESCO conference on an- pretext of the situation in the It is a pity that his advice was Times) damage to our national register for VAT voluntarily on or before 20th parks, the Trump shut- June 2019 with criteria. It is imperative for down cost the economy them to first get their Tax Invoice and VAT $11 billion. End shut - Accounting system in place before applying downs as a political hos- for registration. Putin’s dream of Godliness: Holy Russia tage-taking tactic. If this is not enough, these businesses @HillaryClinton should also evaluate the amount of Input VAT Credit on their purchases including import, they are going to forgo till the date of their accounts for about 30 per cent survived. The KGB infiltrated the In reality, however, Putin’s Russia’s Defence Ministry is 03 registration. It may be a catch 22 of all Orthodox Christian believ- priesthood, informing on clergy Russia has reached a dead completing a construction of its situations for many businesses. ers under Moscow’s patriarchate. and promoting Soviet interests own cathedral, billed as the third It is They must weigh in their com- Dozens of parishes have already abroad. end. His policies have only largest of the Orthodox Christian recommended for petitiveness, their readiness for switched to the Ukrainian Church During Russia’s brief experi- led Russia into deeper churches. The ministry recently businesses to seek VAT vis-à-vis Input VAT Credit and hundreds more are likely to ment with democracy in the isolation, now in matters announced that the cathedral’s loss. follow. Moscow stands to lose mil- 1990s, the church rebounded worldly and holy alike. steps will be made out of melt- advice or support At the time of import of Goods, MICHAEL KHODARKOVSKY lions of the faithful and untold mil- from the decades of suppres - ed German armour captured in from Professional the taxable person i.e. Importer lions of dollars in church property. sion. But under Putin, the state World War II. nyone in the White Accountants when shall pay VAT along with duty But those are not the most im- has co-opted and subsumed the The newfound religious zeal AHouse who thinks making necessary at the time of import of goods n Jan 5, some 150,000 portant losses.