Friday Feature: Tax Credit Scholarships
Colleen HroncichSince April 15th is typically “tax day,” today seemed like a good time to focus ontax credit scholarships.With tax credit scholarships, taxpayers can receive full or partial tax credits when they donate to nonprofit organizations that provide private school scholarships. The first program, enacted in Arizona in 1997, allowed individuals to receive tax credits for donations to private school tuition organizations. In 2001, Pennsylvania and Florida enacted corporate tax credit scholarships, which allowed businesses to receive tax credits for scholarship donations. Other states have followed suit, and...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 15, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Colleen Hroncich Source Type: blogs
Simplify Tax Code to Solve IRS Mess
Chris EdwardsThe filing deadline for federal income taxes this year is April 18. Hopefully, your return is straightforward and you won ’t need help from the Internal Revenue Service. The tax agency has been plagued by awful phone service, piles of unopened mail, backlogged return processing, and rising numbers of taxpayer disputes, asdescribed in a recent report by the Taxpayer Advocate.The Government Accountability Office has releaseda new report highlighting the IRS ’s troubles during last year’s filing season:More than 10 million returns had still not been processed by the end of the year. [p. 11]The num...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 15, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
Piketty ’s Erroneous Data
Chris EdwardsMany people are interested in the distribution of income and wealth and how it may have changed over time. But there is no single and undisputed source for such data. Rather, economists construct historical time series using partial information and many assumptions.French economist Thomas Piketty and colleagues have for years been publishing data showing extreme changes in top 1 percent income and wealth shares in the United States over the decades. Many news outlets report the information unquestioned, despite evidence that Piketty is sloppy with data and makes bad assumptions that throw his calculations...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 13, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
Hey Nurse, Got Resistance?
Have you ever found yourself resisting change? Has your nursing career stalled because you ' re afraid of taking a risk or doing something different? Change is indeed the only constant in the universe (aside from death and taxes), so it ' s something that we simply need to get comfortable with, over and over again.Magical ThinkingMany nurses and non-nurses alike can engage in magical thinking at various times throughout their careers. "Oh, I don ' t need a BSN; they ' ll never close the doors on associate degree nurses. " Or maybe something like this: "I think I ' ll become a nurse entrepreneur. I ' ll just tell people I h...
Source: Digital Doorway - April 11, 2022 Category: Nursing Tags: career career development career management careers healthcare careers nurse nurse career nurse careers nurses nursing Source Type: blogs
Investigation into the management of PPE contracts
National Audit Office -According to this report, the Department of Health& Social Care (DHSC) continues to deal with the contract management issues caused by the need to purchase unprecedented volumes of PPE in 2020 due to Covid-19, with billions of pounds of taxpayers ’ money still at risk. It finds that since February 2020 DHSC and its NHS procurement partner, NHS Supply Chain Co-ordination Limited, have awarded almost 10,000 contracts for personal protective equipment (PPE). DHSC has so far spent £12.6 billion of the total £13.1 billion it expects to spend on almost 38 billion items of PPE. It also outlines how ...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - March 30, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Covid-19 NHS finance Regulation, governance and accountability Source Type: blogs
