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Showing 1 to 20 of 86 for “"exemptions"”.
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The Impact of Bankruptcy Exemptions for Retirement Assets
When filing for personal bankruptcy, an individual can, in almost all cases, claim an exemption for retirement assets. Using the Survey of Consumer Finances from 2007 and 2010, we test the theory that highly educated or financially sophisticated households allocate more resources to retirement …
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The Impact of State Exemptions on Personal Bankruptcy Filings
… remains the same. Because the Chapter 7 exemptions affect the cost of bankruptcy for the debtor, this paper develops a state level probability model to determine whether the different state exemption amounts affect the probability of filing for bankruptcy. The paper shows that states with …
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Religious exemptions from employment discrimination laws: A moral and theological analysis
… concerning the availability of these religious exemptions, and provides a theological analysis of the central issues arising from the debate. The first part of the dissertation (Chapters 1-3) examines the constitutional debate. Both the legislative and judicial exemptions have been challenged in …
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Originalism & Judicially-Enacted Religious Exemptions: Revisiting <em>Employment Division of Oregon v. Smith</em>
… Free Exercise Clause with regard to religious exemptions. The question it seeks to answer is whether the original intent of the Free Exercise Clause includes a justiciable right to religious exemptions. The dissertation begins by considering much of the available scholarship and using that …
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UNDERSTANDING THE GENDERED EXPECTATIONS AND EXEMPTIONS EXPERIENCED BY MALE DOUBLE DUTY CAREGIVERS: A QUALITATIVE SECONDARY ANALYSIS
… was to explore how gendered expectations and exemptions entered into the caregiving and health experiences of male nurses who were DDCs. The overarching theme was the determinants of care, and included the subthemes of familial responsibility and relationships, nursing knowledge and skills, …
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The Differential Impact of the Senior Citizens Homestead and Homeowners Property Exemptions on Four Suburban Cook County School Districts
… studentless constituency have resulted in tax exemptions to stave off a full fledged taxpayer's revolt. Relief in property taxation has become a popular method of offering support to beleaguered taxpayers. The study at hand is designed to determine if a differential impact is felt by a certain …
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Fostering College Student Success: An Analysis of the Educational Outcomes of Florida College Students Utilizing Relative Caregiver, Road-to-Independence, and Adoption Tuition Exemptions
… Adopted from DCF, and Relative Caregiver tuition exemptions to pursue enrollment in Florida's state college system during the 2012-2013 academic year. An extensive literature review was conducted to examine the history of foster care, examine a contemporary portrait of the American foster care …
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Does the proposed dividends tax overcome the international tax flaws that secondary tax on companies may have, namely exclusion from the scope of some double tax agreements and violation of the anti-discrimination provisions embodied in the OECD mode
… (STC) and the new dividends tax and its exemptions therefrom could be in contravention of the non-discrimination provisions of Article 24(5) of the OECD MTC. This question has not been decided in a South African court. This dissertation proposes the resolution to this question. The …
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A Social Psychological Window into How Americans Think About First Amendment Religious Exemption Requests
… First Amendment violations, and whether exemptions should ultimately be granted. Collectively, results suggest that Americans hold strong schemas associating sincere religious beliefs and conservatism, but that this might not matter so much, as ideological biases influence Americans’ …
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South Africa's Restrictions on Interest Deductions and Their Compatibility with the Non-Discrimination Provisions of the 2017 Version of the OECD Model
… contained in Article 24 will be discussed. The exemptions to Article 24 will also be dealt with before addressing the impact of the recently added ‘Savings Clause'. The understandings gained from the above will then be used to test South Africa's interest deduction legislative provisions against …
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Assessment of user fee system : implementation of exemption and waiver mechanisms in Tanzania : successes and challenges
… this study was to evaluate the implementation of exemptions and waivers and to support efforts to address current challenges and promote use of public sector health services. The study was conducted in Bagamoyo and Mtwara rural districts. A qualitative approach (in-depth interviews and focus group …
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Technology, Education and Copyright Harmonization Act Best Practices
… Act of 1976, effective in 1978, provided exemptions for live and distance education. As digital technology grew in capability, its capabilities were incorporated in distance education, but the current law did not account for technology changes. To address the gap, the Technology, Education …
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A General Legal Right to Conscientious Exemption: Beyond Religious Privilege
… and UK. It shows that it is a limited right: exemptions may be lawfully denied to protect the rights of others or important public interests. The thesis then investigates whether such a legal right is exclusively reserved for religious believers. The thesis shows that it is not: it is …
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Il diritto di accesso agli atti interni
… investigation is to discover if there are any exemptions to the rule that all internal documents are accessible. Besides, since even today some internal documents are not accessible we want to check if the reasons are related to their nature of internal documents. We first checked that in the …
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The role of the public interest in competition law: a consideration of the public interest in merger control and exemptions in South Africa and how the public interest plays a more important role in the competition laws of South Africa and of develop
This paper considers the role accorded to, and importance of, the public interest objectives of the South African Competition Act[1] (the Act). The aim of this paper is not to critique these objectives or to consider what role these objectives have played in South African competition jurisprudence …
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The Role of User Fee Charge in Financing Health Services at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre (KCMC)-Moshi
… study highlights the magnitude of the problem of exemptions, waivers, absconders and deferred payments (bonds) and how they impact on the hospital budget. The problem of low Government funding is also discussed. The findings show that user fee has increased over the whole period of study and is an …
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Policies to manage electronics waste : an analysis of US and EU regulatory initiatives
… of the recycling targets, the granting of exemptions, and the development of secondary markets. Portions of the two EU proposed directives may be challenged under World Trade Organization rules. An analysis shows that provisions in the directives could face some difficulty in obtaining …
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The Impact of Fiscal Incentives on The Brazilian Northeast
… Brazilian economy, resulting in a system of tax exemptions and subsidies which compete for the attentions of taxpayers and investors. Although several of the individual incentive programs have been examined in earlier research, no study has considered the effects on the Northeast's growth and …
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