Die Ornstein bij het mediaforum van SpraakmakersOp1 is uitermate druk bezig met framen van tegenstanders van genocide als antisemieten. Hij draait het allemaal weer naar het bestaansrecht van de Joodse Heilstaat. Hij haalt alles erbij: de holocaust, de nazi's. Gelukkig geeft Eric Corton stevig tegengas.
Het is in mijn ogen duidelijk: er is maar ruimte voor één staat, en dat is niet Israël.
#mediaforum #SpraakmakersOp1 #Ornstein #Israël
Even as he has vowed to eliminate “every dollar of waste, fraud, and abuse across the federal budget and operations,”
the new acting administrator of the General Services Administration, #Stephen #Ehikian, has appointed a senior adviser
whose firm used to specialize in tax transactions that a bipartisan Senate committee excoriated and that the IRS branded as “abusive” and among “the worst of the worst tax scams.”
The adviser has been battling the tax agency in court over $4 billion in disallowed deductions for thousands of his clients.
The GSA, the federal agency responsible for managing the government’s land and property,
will now be taking advice from
#Frank #Schuler IV,
the 57-year-old co-founder and longtime president of #Ornstein-#Schuler, an Atlanta-based real estate investment company.
Schuler’s firm was for years among the most prolific promoters of tax-shelter deals known as
“syndicated conservation easements.”
Schuler and his colleagues exploited a tax deduction that was created to reward landowners who give up development rights for their acreage,
usually by donating those rights to a nonprofit land trust.
When used as intended, conservation easements can preserve pristine land,
sometimes as a park that the public can use, and reward the land donor with a charitable tax deduction.
But middlemen like Schuler’s firm turned the tax provision into a highly profitable business,
packaging easements into what were essentially outsized tax deductions for purchase.
After snatching up a cheap piece of vacant land,
Schuler and others typically hired a private appraiser willing to declare that the property had huge untapped development value
— that it was suited to become anything from a gravel mine to a luxury resort
— and was worth many times its purchase price.
They then sold stakes in the easement donation to rich individuals,
who claimed wildly inflated tax deductions based on the appraisal,
cutting their taxes by twice as much as they’d invested.
ProPublica first began investigating the syndicated easement business, which has cost the government tens of billions in tax revenue, back in 2017.
https://www.propublica.org/article/frank-schuler-gsa-doge-syndicated-conservation-easements-tax-scam
Frank Schuler was a leading promoter of a tax deduction derided as a scam by prosecutors, senators and the IRS. Now he’s a senior adviser to the General Services Administration, which manages the federal government’s property.
Two concerts from the Helsinki Chamber Music Festival. FIRST: Works and performers: Wynton MARSALIS: Meeelaan for bassoon and string quartet. Ignas Mazvila, bassoon, Erzhan Kulibaev, violin, Essi Höglund, violin, Ulla Knuuttila, viola, Bruno L...
Two concerts from the Helsinki Chamber Music Festival. FIRST: Works and performers: Wynton MARSALIS: Meeelaan for bassoon and string quartet. Ignas Mazvila, bassoon, Erzhan Kulibaev, violin, Essi Höglund, violin, Ulla Knuuttila, viola, Bruno L...
Two concerts from the Helsinki Chamber Music Festival. FIRST: Works and performers: Wynton MARSALIS: Meeelaan for bassoon and string quartet. Ignas Mazvila, bassoon, Erzhan Kulibaev, violin, Essi Höglund, violin, Ulla Knuuttila, viola, Bruno L...
My #DarkSouls list of defeated bosses so far:
Current equipment:
Hans 🙋♂️
Chuck Darwin
ZETA
Mike Taylor 🦕
Jason Pettigrove
World Concert Hall
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crono 