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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 .) 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. With autocephaly, church. The Kremlin has relied of the military establishment im- another government adjustments. into Bahrain. A Taxable Person people lined up in front of a large portion of the Ukrainian on the Orthodox Church as the itates Putin’s own personal ties shutdown is an option may apply to the NBT to defer When the Othe St Sophia Cathedral in population will now be under main unifying force in the coun- with Tikhon. At a meeting with a needs to talk to the feder- payment, NBT may in its discre- Ukraine’s capital, Kiev. They came the influence not of Moscow on try and provides it with generous group of Russian leaders on Oct al workers and contrac- tion allow the deferral of payment for select Ukrainian to see a single document called a church matters but of an inde- financial support. In return, the 18, the president’s use of apoc- tors who suffered as a registered taxpayers. tomos, issued a few days before by pendent church in Kiev. In other church has been the key promoter alyptic rhetoric was startling. result of the last one. We Hence it’s important for importer to regis- Orthodox the ecumenical patriarch of Con- words, Russia may have annexed of a “Russian world” concept that He declared that Russia was not can’t do this again. ter to recover the input VAT (for the amount stantinople, Bartholomew. There, Crimea, but it has lost Ukraine. casts the Kremlin as a defender of afraid of anyone and that the Rus- @MarkWarner paid at the import) and request for deferral. Church broke on a piece of parchment, written in Most significant, the struggle Russians outside Russia. strong, even if repressive, leader sian people were ready to sacrifice VAT Return Form has not yet been pub - ornate Greek, English and Ukrain- over the Ukrainian Church has Patriarch Kirill, the head of the to solidify the country and defy its themselves for the motherland. As lished but an outline of it has been provided from Russia’s, ian, were words that the Ukrainian played out against a background Russian Orthodox Church, has enemies in the West. This time- for the use of nuclear weapons, he under VAT Legislation. In order to meet the Orthodox Church had dreamed of Putin’s efforts to recast a gone so far as to call the Putin era worn argument, often used to jus- said that if Russia is attacked, “we 04 VAT Return Form requirements including VAT it dealt a blow about for centuries: The document much-weakened Russia, where “a miracle of God.” tify autocracy, is now being fused will respond, and we will end up Compliance, all taxable entities will need to made the Ukrainian Church auto- 20pc of the population is Muslim, One of the best examples today with a religious doctrine earlier in paradise as martyrs, while they make necessary adjustments to their Record to President cephalous, meaning it is now fully as a land of unified people with a of how the church and Kremlin propounded by Ilyin: Russia is will simply croak because they keeping, Accounting System and Financial independent from Moscow. single identity. work hand in hand to advance a unique and separate Christian will have no time to repent.” Reporting. Vladimir This declaration of independ- In that effort, one of his strate- Russian nationalist projects is an civilisation whose responsibilities “They,” of course, is the West, It is recommended for businesses to seek Putin’s efforts ence came about despite months gies has been a growing reliance exhibition: “Russia — My Histo- are only to God. which has now been transformed advice or support from Professional Account- of behind-the-scenes attempts by on the church as a core of Russian ry” — organized by the govern- The exhibition is a brainchild of by propagandists from a mere ge- ants when making necessary adjustments. to portray the Kremlin and Russian Ortho- identity and a stalwart supporter ment with the Russian Orthodox Bishop Tikhon Shevkunov, who opolitical foe into an enemy of the irector of National Wherever necessary, one should also appoint dox Church officials to dissuade of his regime. Church. is known for his strong nation- true Christian faith represented DIntelligence Dan a Tax Advisor to assist one in determining the his country Bartholomew from issuing a to- Indeed, the ties between the On display throughout the Rus- alist views and for being Putin’s by Moscow. Coats says that while VAT implications for the various transactions mos. When cajoling did not work, Kremlin and the Moscow Patri- sian Federation, it glorifies Rus- confessor. He is also behind a In reality, however, Putin’s Rus- North Korea has “halt- to ensure that one is compliant with VAT Law. as one people Kremlin-connected hackers (who archate are as old as Russia it- sian autocrats, including Ivan the project to rename Russia’s main sia has reached a dead end. His ed its provocative be - The business houses, big and small, will were recently indicted in the Unit- self. Throughout its history, the Terrible and Stalin, as great lead- airports after Russian “heroes.” policies have only led Russia into havior related to WMD need the professional tax consultant guid- with a single ed States) stole thousands of email Russian Orthodox Church was ers, while vilifying as Western The list consists almost complete- deeper isolation, now in matters program,” it is unlikely ance to review their business model and messages from Bartholomew’s subservient to the state and an un- agents the Decembrists, a group ly of ethnic Russian men, either worldly and holy alike. Seemingly to “completely give up comply with Tax Invoice, file returns, Input identity aides. When blackmailing failed shakable supporter of autocracy. of young Russian officers who military figures or scientists, who unable to change course, Putin’s its nuclear weapons and tax credit and understand the day-to-day also, Moscow resorted to tradi- Starting in the 16th century, the sought to introduce reforms and contributed to Russia’s military regime is desperately searching production capabilities” intricacies of the new tax policy, particular- tional bullying — issuing unspec- church provided Moscow’s rul- a constitution in 1825. Portraits might. Conspicuously, Andrei for an ideology in the dark cor- because leaders view ly the Input VAT credit claim and deferring ified threats and denouncing the ers with a political theology of of Putin and Alexander Pushkin, Sakharov, the father of the Soviet ners of Russian history and the- them as critical to regime the import cash out flow (by executing the patriarch as an agent of the United Manifest Destiny, asserting that the founder of modern Russian nuclear bomb, who also received ology. The fact that this ideology survival. volunteer registration with NBT). States and the Vatican. Moscow had become the Second literature, hang together. Simi- the Nobel Peace Prize for human depends on creating a nation - @kaitlancollins We, AJMS Alatheer, provide both Account- Still he did not waver, and the Jerusalem and the Third Rome larly, Dostoyevsky is paired with a rights campaigning, is missing alist and anti-Western rhetoric ing and TAX Advisory services, as a one stop split was accomplished. (after Rome and Constantinople). Russian fascist philosopher, Ivan from the list. alongside a vision of an Orthodox premier professional setup. Our profession- It is a serious blow, on several The emergence of the atheist Ilyin, whose little-known works Alongside those developments, Christian Holy Russia should give Disclaimer: (Views expressed al team assists organisations to effectively levels, to the ambitions of Rus- Soviet state in 1922 dealt a se - Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, left, and Metropolitan Epiphanius, the head of the independent Ukrainian Orthodox have been revived under Putin. the role of the church and its in- anyone pause for serious concern. by columnists are personal and monitor and manage their risk and ensure need not necessarily reflect our sia’s president, Vladimir Putin, as vere blow to the church. The Church, conduct a service after presenting the “Tomos,” a scroll containing the decree, in a symbolic ceremony sanctifying the The exhibition’s explicit mes- fluence in the government and (Michael Khodarkovsky is a profes- compliance with regulatory requirements. well as the Russian Church. The state confiscated most ecclesias- Ukrainian Church’s independence from the Russian Orthodox Church at the Patriarchal Church of St George in Istanbul, earlier sage is that Russia’s size and ge- the military have been steadily editorial stances) sor of history at Loyola University (Ramprasad R is the partner of AJMS International Ukrainian Orthodox population tical property, and few seminaries this month. opolitical ambitions demand a growing. Chicago.) Management Consultancy.)

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