Sentences with phrase «public business registers»

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The corporate watchdog has told the public to steer clear of a potential scam website that uses the same registered business name and the same business number as the recently privatised Market City.

mobi was open to the general public, more than 75,000 businesses and individuals registered names.

A public shell is Wall Street's jargon for a corporate entity that is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission though it conducts no business operations.

The business register accounts that Flags public sector entities is actually quite poor.

For instance, organizations trying to assist Haitian and Salvadoran refugees to avoid repatriation, or organizations urging boycott of banks doing business with South Africa, or organizations counseling young people not to register for the draft, or organizations protesting increased military expenditures, or organizations demonstrating against nuclear power or against mineral exploration in wilderness areas, are all in danger of losing their tax exemptions for violating «public policy.»

See public register: BlueScope Steel Limited - proposed acquisition of OneSteel Sheet & Coil business from Arrium Limited

As part of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill which Parliament is expected to approve today, the government is attempting to implement a public register showing who really owns companies.

Additionally, the secretary of state registers businesses in the state, commissions notaries public and manages state ballot initiatives.

The business secretary, Vince Cable, has claimed to be ending «the darker side of capitalism» by announcing he will press ahead with a new public register on company ownership to track the ultimate owners of UK companies, so making it more difficult for firms to evade tax or funnel corrupt funds.

Previously, Mr Prescott had claimed he had no reason to enter it onto the register of interests because it was «entirely on official business and the cost was entirely covered by public funds».

Whitehead has used the public spotlight with Adams to tout his group's mentorship programs and raise funds, including before he registered it as a for - profit business in March 2014.

The Joint Commission on Public Ethics proposal would see businesses being forced to register as lobbyists.

Government watchdog groups also noted that evidence showed Percoco and other Cuomo staffers using private email to conduct public business, a lobbyist saying he was advised by an administration official that registering as a lobbyist would make it more difficult to operate, and a contributor being coached on how to hide donations to Cuomo to avoid campaign limits.

A «public Cloud» is only public in the sense that it's open to the general public (businesses and / or individual users) to register for and share its resources.

And if your investment goes bust, which happens more often with private than public companies, the Allowable Business Investment Loss (ABIL) rules may allow you to claim a deduction against your other income and get a tax refund outside a registered account.

(1) A credit services organization, its salespersons, agents, and representatives, and independent contractors who sell or attempt to sell the services of a credit services organization may not do any of the following: (a) conduct any business regulated by this chapter without first: (i) securing a certificate of registration from the division; and (ii) unless exempted under Section 13 -21-4, posting a bond, letter of credit, or certificate of deposit with the division in the amount of $ 100,000; (b) make a false statement, or fail to state a material fact, in connection with an application for registration with the division; (c) charge or receive any money or other valuable consideration prior to full and complete performance of the services the credit services organization has agreed to perform for the buyer; (d) dispute or challenge, or assist a person in disputing or challenging an entry in a credit report prepared by a consumer reporting agency without a factual basis for believing and obtaining a written statement for each entry from the person stating that that person believes that the entry contains a material error or omission, outdated information, inaccurate information, or unverifiable information; (e) charge or receive any money or other valuable consideration solely for referral of the buyer to a retail seller who will or may extend credit to the buyer, if the credit that is or will be extended to the buyer is upon substantially the same terms as those available to the general public; (f) make, or counsel or advise any buyer to make, any statement that is untrue or misleading and that is known, or that by the exercise of reasonable care should be known, to be untrue or misleading, to a credit reporting agency or to any person who has extended credit to a buyer or to whom a buyer is applying for an extension of credit, with respect to a buyer's creditworthiness, credit standing, or credit capacity; (g) make or use any untrue or misleading representations in the offer or sale of the services of a credit services organization or engage, directly or indirectly, in any act, practice, or course of business that operates or would operate as fraud or deception upon any person in connection with the offer or sale of the services of a credit services organization; and (h) transact any business as a credit services organization, as defined in Section 13 -21-2, without first having registered with the division by paying an annual fee set pursuant to Section 63J -1-504 and filing proof that it has obtained a bond or letter of credit as required by Subsection (2).

Registration as a CTA is required by the National Futures Association for individuals or firms who provide advice on commodities trading, unless one of the following requirements are met: advice is given to a maximum of 15 people over the past 12 months and the individual / firm does not hold itself to the public as a CTA; the individual / firm is engaged in one of a number of businesses or professions listed in the Commodity Exchange Act or is registered in another capacity and the advice given in relation to commodities investing is incidental to the individuals profession or the firm's principal business; or the advice being provided is not based on knowledge of or targeted directly to a customer's commodity interest account.

On April 9, 2014, the Quebec Superior Court ruled that businesses in the province of Quebec may continue to display their trademarks on public signs outside their premises in a language other than French if no French version of the trademark has been registered.

An exception to this rule is found in the Regulation respecting the language of commerce and business, which provides the public posting of a trademark may be done exclusively in a language other than French, unless a French version of the mark has been registered with the Canadian Intellectual Property Office.

Harish Bhasin, who had a business that sold educational savings plans to the public, had a long - standing relationship with the wholesaler Canadian American Financial Corp. to sell its registered investments.

The Government of Bermuda notes the passage of the amendment in the House of Commons, UK, to the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill requiring that named overseas territories including Bermuda (with also Anguilla, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Montserrat, Turks and Caicos Islands; and Virgin Islands) create public registers of all businesses registered there.

They are there for authentication: to show that the document does come from the government and deals with official business or shows information in a public register.

Public sector insurer, Life Insurance Corporation of India, registered 15.38 % growth in new premium business compared to the private sector growth of 17.47 %.

The third section requires Bitcoin sites to register with the telecommunications regulatory authorities, the fourth section clarifies that Bitcoin sites are expected to have anti-money-laundering policies similar to those demanded of US and European exchanges, and finally the last section emphasizes that Bitcoin businesses should help promote the «correct understanding of virtual commodities and currencies, rational investment, control of investment risk and protection of financial safety» and «guide the public to establish a correct conception of money and investment».

Following the FSA's public communication, the Japan Cryptocurrency Business Association, a self - regulating organization with registered cryptocurrency exchange service providers as regular members, released December 2017 a position paper (in Japanese) entitled «Guidance on Initial Coin Offerings,» in which it acknowledges that utility tokens are generally deemed to be cryptocurrency under the Payment Services Act of Japan.

Each of these instances constitutes a regulated activity and must be licensed or registered with the SFC.. This is regardless of whether the parties involved are located in Hong Kong, so long as such business activities target the Hong Kong public.