Tobacco Rider Adds Fire to Debate Over Corporate Tax Bill
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House Republican negotiators beat back Senate efforts to more aggressively regulate tobacco and to more strictly limit tax shelters yesterday as a congressional conference committee moved
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Ministers could be facing legal challenges over Holyrood's proposed smoking ban.
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A move by Fidelity Investments to lower its corporate taxes -- potentially by hundreds of millions of dollars a year -- came under fire yesterday by tax policy advocates and a Massachusetts union official, while a business group defended the Boston mutual fund firm's strategy.
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WINNIPEG (CP) - Manitoba's sweeping anti-smoking law is facing a constitutional challenge - one that will inevitably be watched by other provinces planning their own crackdowns on tobacco.
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Fueled in part by election-year politics, a bill loaded with tax breaks and topped off by a $10.1 billion buyout for tobacco farmers was advancing toward a final vote in the House as early as today.
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WASHINGTON - The Senate, in an unusual Sunday session, saw its effort to pass a sweeping corporate tax bill grind to a halt in the face of delaying tactics by a Louisiana senator upset that the measure did not include pay support for members of the Reserves and National Guard.    By a 66-14 vote, lawmakers did agree to limit debate on the tax bill, which provides $136 billion in new tax breaks for businesses and $10.1 billion separately to buy out tobacco farmers' government quotas...
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WINNIPEG (CP) - Manitoba businesses say a list of fines the provincial government can now levy under the province&#39;s anti-smoking law could result in multiple penalties for a single offence.
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Anti-tobacco senators agreed late Friday to stop delaying a tax bill that includes a bailout for tobacco farmers and pass a separate bill calling for Food and Drug Administration regulation of tobacco, Sen. Edward Kennedy's office said late Friday.
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The Department of Health is proposing to raise the &quot;health tax&quot; levied on cigarettes from the current NT$5 to NT$10 per pack.
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Helped by two whistle-blowers, the lawyer who beat Big Tobacco is on a new crusade -- to fight what clinics charge the uninsured
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Smokers would pay an extra 50 cents for a pack of cigarettes in Massachusetts, and Bay State employers would be required to offer healthcare coverage to their workers under legislation unveiled yesterday by a key state senator.
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A proposed ban on smoking in all bars, restaurants and work sites across the state is igniting a big-money fight at the Texas Capitol.
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Lawyers for the tobacco industry and the federal government debated Wednesday whether a law drafted to prosecute mobsters can be used to obtain $280 billion from the nation&#39;s cigarette makers.
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Senate and House leaders last night fought over new health regulations for tobacco, a dispute that threatens to derail a broader bill designed to end a trade war with Europe and dole out billions in new corporate tax breaks.
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WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- A proposed compromise designed to reconcile competing versions of a key corporate tax bill would allow for a federal buyout of subsidized tobacco growers, but strikes Senate-approved language that would give the Food and Drug
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is not prepared to take on tobacco regulation, although a Senate committee is pushing to give the agency that power, former commissioner Dr. Mark McClellan said on Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON - Senators are turning their attention to a wide-ranging $136 billion corporate tax bill as lawmakers whittle down their workload before leaving town for the elections.    In an unusual Sunday session, the Senate planned to vote on ending procedural roadblocks opponents have used to snarl the tax legislation, which contains breaks for everything from large corporations to importers of Chinese ceiling fans...