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The government said the businesses provided the son with about $ 300,000 and other benefits.
The government said the businesses provided Adam Skelos with about $ 300,000 and other benefits.

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Kelly says the move would harm businesses and undermine the government's commitment to innovation.
DowDuPont's agriculture business could get hurt if the government pressures Brazil as part of its anti-steel dumping campaign, Cramer said.
Suffice it to say that the deductions provided by the small business corporate tax structure are extremely rich and the new government proposals are intended to curtail them.
«For the last few months the Korean government has been making it very clear they want to bring this speculative activity under control,» said Thomas Glucksmann, Hong Kong - based head of APAC business development with cryptocurrency exchange Gatecoin Ltd. «This isn't really too much of a surprise.»
I was at a conference for technology CEOs a couple of years ago, and a former head of Canada's civil service said the government has done all of the policies right, and now it's time for the business community to step up.
«The notion was there were three sources of power in society: government, business, and labor,» Mills, the Harvard professor emeritus, says.
«There's an awareness that decisions governments and businesses make should be based on facts,» she says.
Some government contractors who handle sensitive information are already required to report cyberbreaches, but there's still no uniform requirement for all companies doing business with the federal government, Bosco said.
Startup spaces have begun popping up around Yulin, which several government officials said was aimed at encouraging the creation of new businesses to counter the slowdown in economic growth.
Reacting to the announcement, the Spanish ministry of education, culture and sport said the company was making a business decision to pull out of certain services but that the government remained open to negotiation about how it implemented what its statement referred to as a «Google tax».
The pair's solutions to the alleged problems of CEO - speak are greater government control of markets, more bureaucracy in the private and public sectors, an end to CEOs» duty of care to shareholders and — get this — more snore - inducing courses on critical textual analysis in business schools so students can know exactly how many times a CEO says «our company» versus «the company.»
«It's a leader's role, in business or government, to bring people together, not tear them apart,» Dimon said.
Canning MHR Don Randall says residential estates and businesses in his electorate are missing out on communications infrastructure and may not receive it for up to eight years as the Gillard government presses ahead with the national broadband network.
«One of the things I am doing is not just lobbying the British government but lobbying businesses to press upon their governments the fact that a hard Brexit would be bad for London and for Europe too,» Khan said.
He said Gao, a business partner of his since 2007, told him the money had come from a land sale to the Chinese government to make way for a new airport in Beijing.
Jeff Immelt, the CEO of General Electric said businesses can't depend on the government when it comes to climate change.
«If in fact the Canadian government were to decide not to select the F - 35 we will certainly honour the contracts that we have here with the Canadian industry but our approach in the future would be to try to do business with the industries that are in the countries that are buying the airplane,» he said in an interview after officially opening its new engine overhaul facility in Montreal.
«Simply removing that exemption and putting a set - aside rule in place for all government contract vehicles would significantly increase the pool of contracts available to small businesses,» Reeder says.
«To reduce the threshold of innovative entrepreneurship, the government provides appropriate financial subsidies for rent, broadband access and public software for new businessessaid John Rhee, general manager of the Los Angeles office for UBTECH, a Chinese robotics company headquartered in Shenzhen City that makes humanoid robots for the home.
The federal government says that 23 percent of all government dollars must be set aside of small businesses, and a part of that goes to minority - owned businesses (including women - owned, veteran & service - disabled veteran owned, Native American - owned, Alaskan - owned, and Native Hawaiian - owned corporations).
«Spring Budget 2017 is a critical moment for the government to show it is unashamedly pro-business, and that the Chancellor recognises that small businesses are the engines of job creation,» Mike Cherry, the FSB's national chairman, said in a statement.
In saying that the government stands with «consumers» — rather than citizens or voters or, God forbid, shareholders — Clement diminishes the federal government's importance, making it nothing more than the complaints desk at the Better Business Bureau.
WASHINGTON, April 19 - The United States and Colombia on Thursday cited new evidence of fraud in Venezuela's food import program for the needy, saying part of the funds often ended up in the hands of corrupt government officials after being funneled through businesses in nearby countries.
Business investment in Scotland could fall by up to 10.2 %, compared with continued membership of the EU, in the event of no Brexit deal, the devolved Scottish government said in an economic impact assessment published on Monday.
The company did not give an update on sales of the device, but only to say that both businesses and government agencies seem to be interested.
Western Australia's Nationals say they are getting down to the «business end» of choosing whether to form a government with Labor or the Liberals as both parties submit their power sharing proposals.
In a federal government survey in 2010, four out of five small businesses said they had no need to raise money.
«The overall pie of dollars for small businesses is down, but the portion of that pie that is available to small - business owners is up,» Shoraka says of the U.S. government's improved performance from 2011 to 2012.
The FCC wants a «transparency rule» on business practices to be backed up by government enforcement, Ajit Pai says.
Toshiba said earlier it has chosen a consortium of Bain and Japanese government investors as the preferred bidder for its chip business, aiming to clinch a deal worth some 2 trillion yen ($ 18 billion) by next week as it scrambles for funds to cover massive losses.
Playing to your strengths — or your unique «superpower» — energizes you, says Matthew Thomas, co-founder and executive director of InterSector, a leadership organization promoting collaboration among business, government and nonprofit sectors to solve society's challenges.
Pressure on Washington, D.C., to cut its overall spending has resulted in fewer government contracts available for all businesses, says John Shoraka, associate administrator for government contracting and business development at the SBA, in a conference call with reporters.
«The state government has done a good job making sure small business owners are better - prepared since Katrina,» says Renee Amar, the state director for Louisiana for the National Federation of Independent Businessbusiness owners are better - prepared since Katrina,» says Renee Amar, the state director for Louisiana for the National Federation of Independent BusinessBusiness Owners.
Less than 10 % of LGBT - owned businesses currently work as contractors for state and local government, according to NGLCC research, although 80 % say they would like that opportunity.
A Government Accountability Office report says the effort to help small businesses pay for health care is too complex to be useful.
Nearly a quarter of the companies surveyed said that managing cash was their top concern, more than factors like the costs of running a business, hiring talented people, and following government regulation.
«As our business is involved with sending people overseas we needed to ensure that we are diversified across many countries and regions to avoid the risks of things like flu outbreak, terrorist attacks, war in the region, government unrest, natural disasters, etc.,» says David.
«Sure, we can't pick up the German system and transplant it to Canada — that would be ridiculous,» the employment minister said in a telephone interview, adding it was a «lazy point of view» to be dismissive of the long - established German partnership among government, schools and business.
«It's a business matter, it's not something that would be appropriate for a government entity to give someone guidance on when they should file as an individual,» Spicer said.
The federal government has called on businesses, local and state governments, and residents of the tourist areas to help fund the program, and the rule of law and political institutions still need to be strengthened, said de la Madrid.
While the technology is still learning about its users, it eventually will «push» resources — say, information on government - buying programs for women - owned business — rather than people aimlessly searching for them.
Supporters of the measure say it will protect people and business owners with strong religious convictions from government intrusion.
The Chinese government has said that it will remove the strict ownership caps on EVs by the end of the year, allowing foreign companies to wholly own businesses in China.
«If you think of the government as a business, I think they have to manage their funds prudently to get the most bang for their buck,» said ANZ economist Weiwen Ng.
As part of our re-positioning as a technology platform - based digital interactions company, we are selling this business so we can focus on our large enterprise and government customers,» said David Amoriell, president, Conduent.
«He understands,» Poilievre said of Morneau, «that farmers and local businesses are furious that he and his government have attacked them with this draconian high - tax plan, and he's feeling that backlash, his MPs are speaking out against him.
Asked to comment on the ways in which companies appeared to be sidestepping the rules, Daniel Munden, Chief Press Officer for the government Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, which oversees the process, said implementing the new system would take time.
Commenting on PwC's tax planning business, a spokesperson said: «We continue to take our responsibility to building to trust in the tax system, and our obligations to clients, governments and other stakeholders, extremely seriously.
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