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Enough of this fig-leaf democracy, let's call time on our elitist Seanad
Published 03/09/2013 | 05:00
THREE words are enough to persuade me the Seanad should be abolished: Senator Eoghan Harris. The circumstances surrounding his elevation to the upper house highlight its misuse. A new government swept into power, and the booty was divided up.
Victori spolia: to the victor, the spoils. Bertie Ahern rewarded a journalist who had done him some service with a plum, courtesy of the public purse. That appointment is just one example of how a body designed to reinforce democracy degenerated into a corruption of it. It has become a tool for political patronage – payback time for favours given or expected.
Mr Harris received a handsome tip in return for his PR offensive on 'The Late Late Show' immediately before the 2007 general election, attacking those who questioned the then Taoiseach's personal finances.
Soon after that impassioned intervention, he was parachuted into the Seanad as one of 11 Taoiseach's appointments. Other senators have been installed just as audaciously. The girlfriend of a dig-out buddy of Mr Ahern's, Joe Burke, was also given one of those 60 featherbeds in Leinster House.
Maria Corrigan, a councillor, was unsuccessful in both Dail and Seanad elections. With friends in high places, however, she managed to get herself raised to senatorial rank in 2007. Goodbye democracy, good day cronyism.
The Seanad has been debased to the level of a huckster's sweetshop where political favours are doled out like Smarties. Our taxes exploited, our debt burden aggravated.
The public purse is depleted to allow these people, and others, to posture, pontificate and be pointless.
Appalling though such examples are, a flaw even more flagrant is embedded within the Seanad. Only 3pc of the population has a voice in its elections, which makes the Seanad's existence an affront to the cardinal principle of one citizen one vote.
Next month, for the first time in its history, every citizen has a voice on the Seanad's future. Now, at last, the people have a say. Every vote is finally equal. Abolish the Seanad in favour of the one-house system of government, and every time a citizen votes his or her wishes will be just as valid as their neighbour's.
Currently, graduates of Trinity and the four NUI universities (UCD, Maynooth, Cork and Galway) have two votes for the national parliament, while county councillors have six votes. Plus a seventh if they graduated from any of the above. In short, we are not all equal at the ballot box. This perverts our democracy.
Voices calling for retention include those with something to gain: existing senators. Remember, it is lucrative and untaxing work with kudos attached to membership.
These voices make promises they cannot keep about reform – such an option is not going on the ballot paper. So the electorate must trust to the unsubstantiated possibility of reform as they place their tick.
And on the question of trust, let's turn to a 1979 referendum. Here, the people said yes to expanding the university franchise to allow all graduates a vote in Seanad elections. A small step forward, but for 34 years the people have been ignored. Bearing that in mind, who really accepts reform will now happen?
Arguments are advanced about the Seanad acting as a brake on the Dail. Sadly, this misrepresents the case. The only people who believe that also believe the Galway Tent was nothing more than a social venue. Here's another example of the Senate's democracy deficit: TDs who lose their Dail seats are housed in the second chamber until they can run again, or reach retirement age. It is intrinsically undemocratic to give public office to those rejected by the electorate. Yet more than a third of senators in the current Seanad were unsuccessful Dail candidates in 2011.
Clearly, it is a training ground for the Dail, or a resting place until another tilt is taken at the Dail. Able TDs are an asset, and those who funnel through from the Seanad are often competent. But let the political parties train candidates using their own resources – bear in mind, they receive state funding.
Granted, a handful of senators have contributed to public policy and discourse. But able individuals would make their way forward in any case. Should we preserve an institution that dishonours the notion of democracy and equality because the odd talented individual may sit in it?
Ireland is equipped with more machinery of government than is necessary or advisable given our bankrupt state. We ought to be moving faster towards a pared down, more efficient administration.
YET even if we were flush, the cost issue is less compelling than the democracy shortfall implicit in the Seanad. Even if it was cost-neutral, I could not support its retention.
However, in the interests of confidence-building, I urge Enda Kenny to put forward his proposals for Dail reform before October 4.
Finally, those wishing to join the Dail must face the people. This is right and proper in a democracy. Those wishing to join the Seanad do not face the people, and any pretence to be public representatives is a fig leaf. This is wrong and improper.
I'm out of patience with fig leaves, and golden circles. To tear off one, to put a dent in the other, I've joined a non-political grouping urging that the anachronism of the Seanad be consigned to history.
Let the people call time on an elite voting for an elite to function as an elite.
Find out about our aims on www.onehouse 2013.com and on Twitter @onehouse2013
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Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII
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(Sigh) All noobs to the FF World... the first MAIN FEMALE was Terra actually ^^ Or white mage if you push the matter
"Lightning is Final Fantasy's first female lead, at least according to Square Enix.
This may come as a surprise to fans of Final Fantasy VI, which ostensibly starred Terra, the amnesiac magic user who gradually discovers her roots as an esper. But Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII director and series veteran Motomu Toriyama (who came in on Final Fantasy VII, it should be mentioned) has an explanation.
"We feel that every person within the party [in Final Fantasy VI] is a main character, but we feel Lightning is very impactful as the main female protagonist in the Final Fantasy series." Toriyama says. "Not only is she the first female protagonist, she is very powerful, cool, calm, and collected. So we believe that is another attractive feature of hers."
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Christopher Belmont posted...
But you'd never know it since every male character in an FF game since X looks like a prissy girl anyway.
Isn't Snow XIII manly enough? http://th06.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2012/284/0/7/0714290e790f3b2955b18f6392a36572-d5hgjsa.jpg
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Toriyama said that about Light?
Ugh, somebody needs to shut that man up.
Why do they keep letting him speak in public?
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St0cking posted...
921sora posted...(Sigh) All noobs to the FF World... the first MAIN FEMALE was Terra actually ^^ Or white mage if you push the matter
They speak the truth. Terra was never the main character of VI. She was just one of the more important ones.
DragoonGriffith 4 years ago#16
I'm going to be frank:
If you think Terra isn't the main character of FFVI, then you either didn't play FFVI or you just choose to ignore the evidence of Terra being the first female lead in the series (except if you want to go the route of arguing the White Mage of FF1...).
Currently playing: CT (DS), ToR, LoZ:WW.
zodiac_sword 4 years ago#17
OpheliaAdenade posted...
She was just one of the more important ones.
She is the most important character a.k.a. the main character.
What do you think it means when a girl leaves a fake mustache at your house?
shinigami_matt 4 years ago#18
DragoonGriffith posted...
I'm going to be frank:
And yet tons and tons and tons of FFVI fans would argue that point.
Go then, there are other worlds than these. - The Gunslinger
find no fan tar sea 4 years ago#19
DragoonGriffith posted...
I'm going to be frank:
I love and adore Terra, she was my idol. Celes was one of my fav too!
For me, Terra, Celes, Yuna and Tifa are better role model and 'character' than the pitch (flip the P upside down) lightning. I hope she strikes a ground and bury 6 feet under like a real lightning would!
IF you like JRPG or Pokemon, go do youself a favor and play Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch
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Tifa? LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
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An attack by a great dane killed a golden retriever at a dog park in Wentzville, Mo. this past Sunday.
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The rules are kept simple at the self-regulated facility.
Separate sides of the park are designated for large and small dogs.
Those who bring their dogs to the park are expected to be courteous and respectful to other people and dogs.
They are also expected to keep their dogs under control and have them licensed by the city.
Rathje said in the five years the park has been open there has been one or two minor incidents.
"People that use the dog park are very friendly, positive-minded people," said Rathje. "And they're very respectful of everyone that uses the dog park and the facility itself."
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Bethke & Górski: Rethinking Social Ventures in Hong Kong
Damian Alexander Bethke and Jędrzej Górski (both Chinese University of Hong Kong) have posted Rethinking Social Ventures in Hong Kong (Richmond Journal of Global Law and Business, Spring 2014). Here is the abstract:
Hong Kong has experienced a significant transformation in its understanding of business, which concerns the phenomenon of social ventures that attempt to combine a make money and do good approach and to apply business skills to address social needs. Social ventures live a mystical existence, as they are fully ignored from a legal perspective despite the recent reform of laws on charitable activities. This causes problems as to their general understanding, which the authors try to address with their own typology, systematically characterizing social ventures. Then the authors examine the legal environment of social ventures in Hong Kong and identify the challenges they face. Hong Kong's company law and related public/administrative law issues are considered. The answer searched for is: what is the appropriate legal vehicle for social ventures, and what are the practical legal questions when a social venture wants to structure its make money and do good business? As to the first problem, the legal non-existence of social ventures results in coupled privileges — meaning a system which favors traditional business forms such as for-profit and not-for-profit companies and discourages doing good approaches by social ventures. The authors identify instances where privileges crediting charitable activities are coupled with not-for-profit status, and propose solutions under which social ventures could be registered and have tax privileges efficiently assigned by a one-stop supervision body. As the second problem, the situation of social ventures abandoning their mission of doing good poses further challenges to the legal system, and the authors propose a regime under which business organizations can easily adopt or abandon a social mission based on a partial application of the cy-près doctrine. The authors come to the conclusion that the social venture sector bears immense potential for Hong Kong as well as for all of Asia. But in order to use this potential, Hong Kong has to show a more refined understanding and has to be open to a profound discussion.
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Saturday, April 26, 2014
The Rise of NGOs in China
The Economist earlier this month commented on the growth of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in China ("Enter the Chinese NGO"). It estimates that there are approximately 2 million NGOs currently operating in China, about three-quarters of which are not officially registered, with many more likely to form in the near future. The communist party's plan appears to be to try to keep them small and local, and therefore presumably not a challenge to the party's authority or power. In a relatd, more detailed article ("Beneath the Glacier"), the Economist explores the reasons for the growth in Chinese NGOs and the wary response of the government to them (UPDATE: and quotes our blog's own Karla Simon).
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Thursday, February 6, 2014
The Decline of Britain's Not-for-Profit Mutual Banks
The Economist reports that Britain's mutually owned, not-for-profit banks are increasingly converting to shareholder owned, for-profit institutions or collapsing. These "building societies," which dominated the residential mortgage market in the 1970s, have suffered from a variety of ailments, including poor management, high-risk lending, and a push for demutualization. Interestingly, the Economist appears to regret this development, noting the continuing success of Nationwide Building Society and commenting that "The model is worth preserving. Mutuals have tended to offer better customer service; on average, they generate fewer complaints than other lenders. The fate of British mutuals notwithstanding, studies by the Bundesbank and the IMF suggest that, overall, mutual banks are more stable than their more commercial counterparts."
Lloyd Mayer
February 6, 2014 in In the News, International | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Saturday, December 7, 2013
Long & Hu: Tax Incentives for Charitable Donations of Non-Monetary Assets by Chinese Corporations
Zhaohui Long (Sun Yat-Sen University) and Xiaoling Hu have posted Research on Tax Incentives for Charitable Donations of Non-Monetary Assetsby Chinese Corporations, 3 Journal of Chinese Tax and Policy 21 (2013). Here is the abstract:
Corporate donations form a substantial part of social charitable donations in China. Corporate non-monetary asset donations are important in this regard as they bring goods and materials to areas where they are desperately needed. However, the current scope and scale of corporate donations are narrow due to a lack of tax incentives. This paper will explain the incentive effects of the current tax regime by analyzing how asset donations are treated by Chinese taxation laws, from the perspective of macroeconomic policies and market demands. It particularly focuses on the relatively heavy tax burden and limited scope for tax exemptions on corporate asset donations in China. In light of this, we propose some pragmatic suggestions on incentivizing policies that are more suitable for China's current situation, such as increasing the exemptions before tax and allowing exemptions to roll over to future years, developing incentive policies on indirect and property taxes, and establishing the mechanism for third-party price evaluation and equity donation regulation, etc
Lloyd Mayer
December 7, 2013 in International, Publications – Articles | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Rechberger et al.: Public Governance by Outcome-Based Contracting in Austria
Martina Rechberger, Sandra Stoetzer, and Dennis Hilgers (all Johannes Kepler University Linz) have posted Designing New Ties: Public Governance by Outcome-Based Contracting in Austria. Here is the abstract:
Due to the growing relevance of output and outcome orientation in the public sector, contracts are becoming more important in public sector networks. Especially the core objects of cooperations between the public sector and non-profit organisations (NPOs) are to obtain a certain outcome, which is mainly due to fixed arrangements pointed out in contracts. What are the requirements for outcome-based contract design? How are outcome-based objectives implemented in contracts? What is the status of implementation of outcome-based contract management in Austria?
Lloyd Mayer
December 7, 2013 in International, Publications – Articles | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Saturday, September 28, 2013
Ninth Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting Ends on High Note
The Ninth Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting ended in New York City on Thursday with an emphasis on optimism and mobilizing for action to address the most pressing global challenges. Over the three days of the meeting, Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) members made over 160 new Commitments to Action, expected to impact nearly 22.2 million lives and valued at more than $10.8 billion when fully funded and implemented.
According to a press release issued shortly after the meeting ended,
Through the CGI commitments announced this year, nearly 27 million metric tons of CO2 will not be released into the atmosphere, more than 2 million girls will be reached by efforts specifically targeting female enrollment in schools, more than 11.6 million children will have a better education, nearly 4 million people will have increased access to health services, and more than $7 billion will be invested in or loaned to small- and medium-sized enterprises.
Former President Clinton noted that "this year's commitments highlight the enthusiasm, creativity, and general characteristic of CGI members. They also reinforced our theme of 'mobilizing for impact.' So many partners have come together, to increase their impact by drawing upon each other's strengths and creating new partnerships to truly put ideas into action: this is what CGI is all about. I am so grateful to everyone who joined us this year, whether in person or online, and who continue to work with us to create a better world."
The CGI announced two major Commitments to Action focusing on health and on animal preservation. First, Former President Clinton, joined by Don Thompson, President and CEO of McDonald's, and Dr. Howell Wechsler, CEO, Alliance for a Healthier Generation, founded by the Clinton Foundation and American Heart Association, announced a partnership to increase customers' access to fruit and vegetables and help families and children to make informed choices in keeping with balanced lifestyles.
Former Secretary [Hillary] Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, and African government leaders including the Presidents of Burkina Faso, Cote D'Ivoire, Gabon, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, and Ministers from Botswana and Zambia made an announcement with leaders of the Wildlife Conservation Society, the African Wildlife Foundation, the World Wildlife Fund, Conservation International, the International Fund for Animal Welfare, Save the Elephants, the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, and the Jane Goodall Institute regarding Partnership to Save Africa's Elephants, a new Commitment to Action aiming to end poaching by addressing poaching, trafficking, and international demand.
These are good plans. I wish the CGI all the success possible.
September 28, 2013 in Conferences, Current Affairs, In the News, International | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
World Bank to Invest $700 Million in Health of Women and Children in Developing Countries
I thank May 2013 Texas Tech University School of Law graduate, Ibukun Adepoju, for bringing this story to my attention. Originally from Lagos, Nigeria, Ms. Adepoju now lives in Lubbock, Texas.
According to a report appearing in News Afrique Informations, the World Bank Group has announced that it plans to invest at least $700 million by the end of 2015 to help developing countries reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for women and children's health.
Financing will be provided by the bank's International Development Association (IDA) and Health Results Innovation Trust Fund. The funds will be used to develop successful reproductive, maternal, and child health projects in developing countries. The announcement comes almost a year to the day after World Bank Group president, Jim Yong Kim, announced that the bank would provide funding to help scale pilot projects for women's and children's health as part the UN's Every Woman Every Child global partnership.
Hats off to the World Bank Group for this initiative.
September 24, 2013 in International | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
NY Times: Russia Targets "Foreign Agent" Nongovernmental Organizations
The N.Y. Times reports Russian prosecutors have stated that 215 nongovernmental organizations are in violation of a new law requiring them to register as "foreign agents" if they receive funds from outside of the country and engage in political activity. As the N.Y. Times previously reported, many of the groups that are allegedly subject to the new law have vowed to defy it by refusing to register. The United States also withdrew from a US-Russia civil society working group, apparently in part because of Russia's adoption of this law. The human rights commissioner for the Council of Europe has called for the suspension of the new law in the wake of the prosecutors' statement, according to Reuters. It is not yet clear how Russia, which is a member of the Council of Europe, will respond to this call, if at all. The prosecutors' statement comes in the wake of raids by Russian police and tax inspectors on the offices of Russian human rights groups.
July 16, 2013 in In the News, International | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Sunday, June 2, 2013
Faulhaber: Charitable Giving, Tax Expenditures, and the Fiscal Future of the European Union
Lilian V. Faulhaber (Boston University) has posted Charitable Giving, Tax Expenditures, and the Fiscal Future of the European Union. Here is the abstract:
paper focuses on several cases decided by the Court of Justice of the
European Union in recent years. In these cases, the CJEU struck down
geographic limitations on tax expenditures for charitable giving,
thereby leaving Member States with a choice. Member States that chose
not to eliminate their tax expenditures entirely would have to extend
them to beneficiaries across the European Union. Those that did not
want to extend these benefits to the rest of the European Union,
however, would have to eliminate their tax expenditures and perhaps
replace them with direct subsidies.
The Court has thus effectively forced Member States into either subsidizing each other's charitable sectors or no longer using their tax systems to encourage charitable giving. This paper shows that most Member States have chosen the first option, meaning that they are engaged in a web of horizontal subsidization. In the absence of any supranational taxing authority in the European Union, this horizontal subsidization represents a new model of fiscal federalism, where taxing and spending decisions are spread between Member States, rather than assigned vertically to a centralized government. This new model could arguably allow the Member States to retain the benefits of both centralization and decentralization, with Member States now paying for benefit spillovers yet still retaining the competition and representation of political preferences generally associated with decentralized systems.
However, horizontal subsidization should raise significant concerns because of the way that the Court reached its decisions in cases considering tax expenditures. In order to arrive at horizontal subsidization, the Court ignored both the economic equivalence of tax expenditures and direct expenditures and the fundamental regulatory and cultural differences between Member State charitable sectors. By prioritizing formalism over functionalism and overlooking the remaining differences between Member States, the Court distorted Member State policy choices, favored certain types of charitable organizations, and created incentives for Member States to increase barriers to entry to their charitable sectors. This paper suggests that the CJEU's tax expenditure jurisprudence is thus more likely to be a cautionary tale than a model for future integration.
June 2, 2013 in International, Publications – Articles | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
New Zealand: Family First to Lose Charity Status Over Controversial Positions?
The New Zealand Herald reports that Family First NZ, which identifies itself as a pro-framily organization, has announced that it received a notice that the New Zealand Charities Commission plans to deregister the organization as a charity because it supports a view of the family that was not in the public interest. Among its many positions, Family First opposes same-sex marriage and a law that apparently criminalizes any form of corporal punishment for children. A later article indicates that the deregistration is based at least on part on the assertion that Family First's main purpose is political and therefore not charitable under New Zealand law. The final resolution of the situation will be decided by the courts, as Family First has already filed a High Court appeal.
June 2, 2013 in In the News, International | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Canadian House Committee Issues Tax Incentives for Charitable Giving Report
While incentives for charitable giving have been a topic of much debate in Washington, DC, this topic is also of interest to our neighbor to the north. In a detailed report, the Standing Committee on Finance for Canada's House of Commons considered the effectiveness of existing and proposed tax incentives for charitable giving based on evidence provided by numerous organizations and individuals and put forward a dozen recommendations for legislative and executive branch action. Those recommendations include eliminating or reducing the capital gains tax on charitable donations of certain property and exploring an enhanced tax credit for donors who increase their contributions over time, while at the same time promoting greater accountability and transparency in the charitable sector.
Hat tip: Miller Thomson Charities and Not-for-Profit Newsletter.
April 2, 2013 in International | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Thursday, February 14, 2013
UK Charity Commission Battles Religious Organization Over "Charity" Status
The Charity Commission for England and Wales has found itself in an ongoing dispute with a Brethren congregation over whether the congregation qualifies as a charity under British law. As detailed in a recent Parliamentary Briefing, the dispute focus on the status of a Brethren meeting Hall, the Preston Down Trust. The case involving the Trust is being used as a test case for the status of other, similar meeting halls. The Commission decided last year that the Trust did not qualify as a charity, which led to highly public criticism from both the Plymouth Brethren church and questions from MPs in Parliament according to a Telegraph article. The decision is traceable to a statutory change that led a charity Tribunal to conclude that advancing religion is no longer considered to automatically provide a public benefit. In considering whether the Trust provides a public benefit, the Charity Commission's denial letter indicates that the adherents to this particular faith sharply limit their interactions with those outside the faith and so the Charity Commission concluded that "[t]he evidence is [sic] relation to any beneficial impact on the wider public is perhaps marginal and insufficient to satisfy us as to the benefit to the community." According to a UK civil society website, the Charity Commission and the Trust are now in negotiations to attempt to resolve the issue short of a full Tribunal hearing, although a recent Charity Commission statement suggests such a resolution may be difficult to reach.
February 14, 2013 in In the News, International | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
NYT: "US Withdraws From Project With Russia on Civil Society"
The New York Times reports that in the wake of various measures deemed hostile to nonprofit groups working in Russia, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Melia announced that the United States would no longer be part of a "civil society working group" created in 2009. The article reports the group, which the US and Russia created under the US-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission, has not met in plenary session for many than a year. We have previously blogged about some of the actions that apparently contributed to the withdrawal, including requiring nonprofits receiving funding from outside of Russia to identify themsevles as foreign agents.
Additional coverage: Reuters; Washington Post.
February 13, 2013 in Federal – Executive, In the News, International | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Australian Charities and Not-for-Profit Commission Opens Doors
Catching up on some of the year's news and scholarship, I will start on the international front with a story from Australia. In 2012, Australia created the Australian Charites and Not-for-profits Commission and earlier this month the Commission opened its doors. Here is the Commission's description of its role:
Who we are
The Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC) is the independent national regulator of charities. The ACNC has been set up to achieve the following objects:
- maintain, protect and enhance public trust and confidence in the sector through increased accountability and transparency
- support and sustain a robust, vibrant, independent and innovative not-for-profit sector
- promote the reduction of unnecessary regulatory obligations on the sector.
What we do
To achieve our objects, the ACNC:
- registers organisations as charities
- helps charities understand and meet their obligations through information, guidance, advice and other support
- maintains a free and searchable public register so that anyone can look up information about registered charities
- is working with state and territory governments (as well as individual federal, state and territory government agencies) to develop a 'report-once, use-often' reporting framework for charities.
The ACNC is established under section 105-5 of the ACNC Act. Our objects and functions are in section 105-15 of this Act.
Our leaders
ACNC is led by Commissioner Susan Pascoe AM, Assistant Commissioners David Locke and Murray Baird, and a strong leadership team. The ACNC Commissioner's position is established by section 110-5 of the ACNC Act.
Our relationship with other government agencies
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) remains responsible for deciding eligibility for charity tax concessions and other Commonwealth exemptions and benefits.
There are also many other government agencies that regulate charities and other not-for-profits. For example, government agencies may provide grants and other funding. They may also regulate particular services provided by charities, such as aged care or education.
Additional Information: Australian Financial Review; Australian Institute of Company Directors; Pro Bono Australia.
December 26, 2012 in In the News, International | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Foreign-Funded Nonprofits Reject "Foreign Agent" Label in Russia
December 26, 2012 in In the News, International | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Caribbean Nonprofit Uses Online Crowd Funding to Raise Funds for School Project
I'll confess my ignorance: up to a few minutes ago, I had never heard of "crowd funding." Then this story from Caribbean360 caught my attention. According to Caribbean360, the Grenada Goat Dairy recently announced that its campaign to fund its collaboration with the St. Patrick Anglican School had exceeded its goal of $55,000 (USD) through the campaign's use of the crowd funding website, www.Kickstarter.com. The Grenadian non-profit organization used the method to attract local and international support, with donors giving amounts ranging from $1 to $10,000.
I know nothing about crowd funding and how it works, but if it works for the Grenada Goat Dairy, it can work for other non-profits also. I wonder, however, whether donors' contributions are tax deductible, and whether the various websites hosting these crowd funding "events" are able to give individual donors receipts for their donations.
October 25, 2012 in Current Affairs, In the News, International | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
World Universities Rankings: Rising Global Student Mobility
The International Herald Tribune (IHT) is reporting that the compilers of a leading league table of the world's top universities on Tuesday reported an "unstoppable rise" in the numbers of students choosing to travel abroad to study.
"Global student mobility is on a seemingly unstoppable rise, with those seeking an overseas education targeting the leading universities," wrote John O'Leary, an academic adviser to the London-based Quacquarelli Symonds, which produces the annual QS World Universities Rankings. O'Leary continued: "Even after considerable growth in recent years, the latest rankings show an extraordinary rise of almost 10 percent in international student numbers at the top 100 universities."
According to the IHT,
This year's listings saw Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) overtaking Britain's Cambridge University as the top place in the influential league table, which is based on a range of factors that include the opinions of academics and prospective employers.
American and British institutions continued to dominate the QS rankings, which were launched in 2004, occupying all 10 top places.
QS factors foreign student and faculty numbers into the rankings. This practice is reflected in this year's listing. According to O'Leary, "Cambridge, for example, has seen a significant increase in international students, but has dropped five places in this measure, contributing to its fall from first to second place in the overall ranking."
Similarly, a drop in the ranking of the University of California at Berkeley — down to 22nd place from 2nd in 2004 — reflected not only a comparatively poor faculty-to-student ratio, but also "low attractiveness for international faculty and students," said QS adviser, Martin Ince.
The IHT continues:
QS noted that the most successful universities competed to attract the world's best students and faculty. "Simple evaluations of the proportion of international students and international faculty serve as indicators of an institution's diversity and international attractiveness," it said.
Traveling abroad to study has obvious attractions for students who want the very best education available globally. There is also an economic incentive for the institutions themselves, and the countries that host them, in terms of fees and foreign earnings.
However, the IHT notes, mobility depends on the readiness of governments to allow access to foreign students.
September 11, 2012 in Current Affairs, In the News, International, Studies and Reports | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Thursday, August 9, 2012
Lombardo on Freedom of Establishment of Non-Profit Entities in the EU
Stefano Lombardo (European Corporate Governance Institute and Free University of Bolzano) has posted Some Reflections on Freedom of Establishment of Non-Profit Entities in the EU. Here is the abstract:
This article deals with the exclusion of non-profit-making entities from the right of freedom of establishment of Articles 49 and 54 TFEU. The article analyses the historical reasons for this exclusion. It is argued that the exclusion from freedom of establishment is no longer justified on the basis of two elements. Firstly, the development of the jurisprudence of the European Court of Justice in the fields of competition law, free movement of capital and tax law makes such exclusion systematically no longer tenable. Secondly, a law and economics treatment of non-profit firms as organisations that efficiently provide goods and services in alternative to for-profit firms weakens the reasons for the exclusion. The article proposes a uniform, European notion of non-profit entity based on a law and economics analysis of this type of firm for the purposes of Article 54 TFUE as opposed to possible different national notions. The article then analyses briefly the hypothesis of regulatory competition among jurisdictions for the provision of the law regulating the corporate governance of non-profit entities.
August 9, 2012 in International, Publications – Articles | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Hsiao on The Beginning and the End of an Era of Charitable Public Benefit in Hong Kong
Mark W.H. Hsiao (Chinese University of Hong Kong) has published The Beginning and the End of an Era of Charitable Public Benefit in Hong Kong, 3 Conveyancer and Property Lawyer 228 (2012). Here is the abstract:
As with the UK Charities Act 2006 ('CA 2006'), the presumption of charitable public benefit will likely cease when the Charities Ordinance ("CO") comes into force in Hong Kong. The reference to the United Kingdom is important in the formulation of the organizing principles of public benefit; this is because the common law cases previously applied in Hong Kong continued to sustain in Hong Kong after the 1997 handover. However, common law cases after 1997 may reflect a different direction. This paper illustrates two things relevant to charitable public benefit. First, it argues against the presumption test in Hong Kong from a comparative perspective, and the present Hong Kong tax policy is compatible with previous English common law cases. Against this comparative background, the author asks how public benefit should be modified in accordance with Hong Kong's tax policy. Secondly, it consolidates the principles of relation, deference, and against capriciousness into the organizing principle of the public benefit test. This organizing principle is subject to the paramount principle of tax distribution.
With the new CO in Hong Kong, the four headings of charitable purpose under Lord MacNaughten's formulation in the Special Commissioners of Income Tax v Pemsel case will become obsolete. The public benefit test will thereafter reverse the presumption of charitable purpose and create a new regulatory regime. The public benefit test will become a paramount means of assessment for market entry. No entity will be regarded as a legal charity unless it satisfies the public benefit test. This controls the market entry on charitable trust that financial institutions enjoyed in the past.
August 8, 2012 in International, Publications – Articles | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
GOP Senators Pressure IRS on 501(c)(4) Rules
Led by Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), ten GOP senators sent a letter to the IRS yesterday urging it not to revisit its regulations governing section 501(c)(4) organizations in response to outside political pressure without careful (and time-consuming) deliberation. More specifically, they stated "public confidence in the non-partisan integrity of the agency demands that you issue no sub-regulatory guidance nor engage in any similar efforts that would effectuate immediate changes without a lengthy period of review, separated in time from the current heated political environment." The Senators were writing in response to a letter the IRS sent last month to two groups supporting campaign finance reform stating:
I am responding to your letter dated March 22, 2012, which supplemented you [sic] letter dated July 27, 2011, urging the IRS to institute a rulemaking proceeding to address the rules related to political activity by organizations exempt under section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code.
The IRS is aware of the current public interest in this issue. These regulations have been in place since 1959. We will consider proposed changes in this area as we work with the IRS Office of Chief Counsel and the Treasury Department's Office of Tax Policy to identify tax issues that should be addressed through regulations and other published guidance.
This letter underlines the political tightrope that the IRS is walking in this area, especially with countervailing pressure coming from the Democratic side of the congressional aisle. Whether the Service can successfully walk this tightrope - and where it leads - remains to be seen.
Media Coverage: Chicago Tribune (Reuters); The Hill blog; Wall Street Journal blog.
August 7, 2012 in Federal – Executive, Federal – Legislative, International | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)


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i personally dont like it but i got nothing against anyone who watches it
i like it what do u think
add me and if you do i'll add you to pm me if you do and give me your wii number
i also need help on the legand of zelda twilight princess give me some help
i personally dont like it but i got nothing against anyone who watches it
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if you add me pm me
Shows a big time fail
Also : belongs in anime lounge
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dont like it. I would rather watch a new season of
beyblade that show was quite good
PS3 now, sorry Wii. You gather dust.
OMG that is the greatest load of SHIT EVER!!!!!!!!!!I mean "get ur game on"its soooooooooo gay and anyone who likes it is probaly a neard.And u "dark prinny" grow up u weirdo!!
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i watch it to go to sleep =]
at 4:30 or w/e it is, turn on the tv, lay down, BOOM im asleep
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gross Yu Gi Oh is in my opinion one of the worst "anime" out there, along the lines with bobobo-bobo-bobo and pokemon...
Wii Funds $0.00 and not growing =p
PS3 funds canceld for a year, funds will now go to my trip to France. besides i have a PSP WAHOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
X-Box 360 funds $0 and not growing
Well it is what is called commercial anime
Made just to sell stuff
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yu-gi-ohs crap...they use cards as weapons...atleast in pokemon they use actual creatures. But no offence to anyone who watches it.


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Hizbollah did not get its propaganda coup
The images of the POW exchange reflected well on Israel in the foreign media
The media always find it difficult to deal with Israel-Arab prisoner exchanges. The sheer imbalance in numbers is hard enough to understand.
Over the last three decades, Israel has released some 7,000 Arab prisoners to secure the freedom of 19 Israelis and to retrieve the bodies of eight others.
What was different about this month's prisoner swap, in return for the bodies of Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser, was not the lopsided nature of the deal, but the identity of one of the terrorists returned to Lebanon. Samir Kuntar was Israel's most notorious prisoner, a cold-blooded murderer who bludgeoned a child to death. His presence in the exchange produced a notably confused reaction.
Writing in the Telegraph, Andrew Pierce, visiting Jerusalem, found the event inexplicable. "It's a propaganda coup for Hizbollah. The handover of the soldiers for an evil man, who killed a four-year-old girl having already slain her father."
But equally sickening, for anyone watching the television pictures, was the sight of the leader of Hezbollah, Sheikh Nasrallah, embracing the killer as if he were a war hero.
The BBC website provided a colourful account of the Kuntar homecoming. It noted the red carpets and the fluttering yellow-and-green flags of Hizbollah and Nasarallah's words: "The age of defeats is gone, and the age of victories has come". The reporter noted that the man being welcomed as a hero is "reviled in Israel" for his crimes, but appeared unrepentant, promising he would return to Palestine.
Robert Fisk in the Independent saw it as "a theatrical return for the living and the dead". Fisk could not bring himself to applaud the child killer's release. He described him as man used to solitary confinement "idolised by a people who had not seen him for three decades". Nasrallah had promised his release and kept his word. This, in Fisk's view, was a day of "humiliation" for Israel.
Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Times focused on the atmosphere in Israel. The pressure on the Olmert government to "bring our sons home" has been ubiquitous in Israel, it explained. Their families were given very little room for private grief over their deaths, not confirmed until the black-draped coffins were first seen on Israeli television. "It was horrible to see," Zvi Regev, the father of one of the killed soldiers, said.
Somehow Olmert found the language to justify want had been done, describing the "fate of everyone of our soldiers as the glue which binds us together as a society".
But after looking at the news clippings, the TV images and the websites, it is clear that the events surrounding the prisoner exchange were not the propaganda coup that Pierce feared. The sight of a convicted killer embracing a terrorist and the accounts of celebration in Lebanon, best told by Fisk, were over the top and confirmed Nasrallah as a blood-thirsty cleric.
In contrast, Israel's willingness to make concessions for the return of the war dead demonstrated the value which the Jewish state places on human life and remains of the dead.
It may well be that the media coverage of the events of last week was too thin on the ground and too unexplained to make a lasting impression. But as the late Michael Deaver, creator of the media image of Ronald Reagan, observed, the written word and the voice-over are irrelevant — it is the pictures which are important. The key message of last week's events was of the dignified return in coffins of two young men who fought for their nation. On the other side of the border there were ghastly ceremonies, nasty embraces and few tears.
Israel's humanity won this particular battle of videos.


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Tanzanian Royalty Announces $25 Million Bought Deal Offering to Expedite Development of Buckreef Gold Project in Tanzania
SOUTH SURREY, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Tanzanian Royalty Exploration Corporation (TSX:TNX.to - News) (the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has entered into an underwriting agreement with Casimir Capital Ltd. (the "Underwriter") whereby the Underwriter has agreed to purchase 4,237,289 units (the "Units") of the Company on a bought deal basis at a price of US$5.90 per Unit, for sale to the public in Canada and the United States. The offering is expected to provide the Company with aggregate gross proceeds of US$25 million.
The primary use of the funds will be for the completion of a full Feasibility Study on the Company's advanced stage Buckreef Gold Project in Tanzania which hosts approximately 2.0 million ounces of 43-101 compliant resources at a 0.5 g/t cut-off grade. (See April 15, 2011 News Release for details).
The Company is currently in discussions with international consulting firms with respect to a turnkey price for the construction of plant and mine-related facilities at the Buckreef Project, said the Company's President and CEO, James E. Sinclair. "We are not looking at a Cadillac operation - more of a Ford in fact - that will generate the returns that shareholders expect and deserve from such a robust gold mining project."
According to Sinclair, "Buckreef is licensed for mining and in fact saw some commercial production as an underground producer during the 1980s. The permitting risk for Buckreef is minimal which is highly unusual for a project of this scope in this day and age," he added.
In addition to the Buckreef Feasibility Study, some of the funds will be allocated to plant and equipment purchases for the mining of surface gravels at Buckreef and on the Company's Kigosi and Lunguya prospects where gravel deposits of commercial interest are also indicated, Sinclair said. "If these projects unfold as expected they could be major cash generators to further development work at Buckreef" he suggested.
A major priority for the Company will be the initiation of exploration work along established mineral trends within the Buckreef Project area. Of particular interest is the Buckreef Eastern Porphyry area where the potential to establish additional resources along a continuous mineralized zone that is known to extend for at least 300 metres has yet to be fully evaluated.
Significant drill intercepts reported by previous operators within the Eastern Porphyry area included 3.0 metres grading 22 g/t gold from RAB drilling. RC drilling at an average depth of 115 metres returned a peak grade of 18 metres averaging 6.58 g/t gold, 4.0 metres averaging 2.07 g/t gold, 3.0 metres grading 2.18 g/t gold, 2.0 metres averaging 8.81 g/t gold, and 5.0 metres grading 1.35g/t gold.
Each Unit consists of one common share ("Common Shares") of the Company and one Common Share purchase warrant ("Warrants") exercisable at a price of US$7.00 per warrant share for a period of two years following closing of the Offering. The Units will be offered by way of a short form prospectus in the Provinces of British Columbia, Ontario and Alberta and will be offered in the United States pursuant to a registration statement filed under the multi-jurisdictional disclosure system. The Offering is expected to close on July 18, 2011, and is subject to regulatory and listing approval.
In consideration for the services to be rendered by the Underwriter under the Offering, the Underwriter will receive a cash commission of 7% of the gross proceeds of the Offering and compensation warrants entitling the Underwriter to purchase, in the aggregate, that number of Common Shares that is equal to 7% of the aggregate number of Units sold pursuant to the Offering.
Noone putting 25 million in a stock is desperate.
Would you mind if I call you scarecrow from hereon?
"How much do you reckon it costs to process surface gravel in a crusher? Dig it up and put it in there."
it's that simple huh? only to a simpleton. fundamental analysis is too much for you.
keep it simple. TRX to da moon and beyond. yea, that's the ticket.
imho, Casimir must be desperate to do this bought deal. in the precious metals sector, there are much better dancing partners than TRX, throw a dart and you are bound to find better value.
You expect the gold price to average 2000 dollars coming two years?
Well. You got that right.
How much do you reckon it costs to process surface gravel in a crusher? Dig it up and put it in there.
okay ludwig, here's the math.
based on $200 mil in gross income, you expect TRX to produce around 100,000 Gold ounces over the next two years.
at what cost per ounce?
Do the math yourself.
crushing units will help TRX generate $200 mil in income over the next two years?
how many Gold ounces do you think TRX will produce over the next two years? include all of 2013.
when the 4th quarter of 2013 is in the books, we can review how accurate your estimate was. what ever it is, posters here should expect you to be wildly optimistic.
you are a TRX's # 1 cheerleader.
Sinclair has allways stated shares would go up to 100 million. Snclair has allways stated further development will financed.from production. Well put the finance to good work and the market know as the shareprice went up on the news. Did you know 3 crushing units well purchase from the money can and will generate over 200 million cash coming two years.
what's this? js is doing a bought deal with Warrants..
how is the corresponding dilution different from other precious metal company's financings.
maybe it's different because js said he wouldn't pursue this kind of dilutive financing. especially with warrants attached?
This is for production not to pay salaries like most companies do.


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Record Tyne salmon and sea trout run continues
Tyne Monthly Fish Bulletin : October 2010
by Morton Heddell-Cowie
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The upstream count for October was 9,409. This figure is the six highest count for this month in our records; the highest October count occurred in 2003 with 14,066 upstream counts being recorded. The count for the year up to the end of October was 44,761 which is the highest on record for the period, surpassing the previous highest, 40,715 set in 2004, by 4,046.
The highest daily total recorded during October this year was 764, which was recorded on the 29th. This peak occurred at approximately the same time as a slight rise in river levels and a sustained increase in water temperatures. The chart below shows the daily counts along with the daily average water height and temperature at Bywell for October 2010.
Scale sampling programme
By the end of October, 556 scales samples have been submitted to the scheme, 420 coming from salmon and 136 from sea trout. October has accounted for 112 samples, 98 of which coming from salmon and 14 from sea trout, with only a few more samples expected. Of the scales that have been read so far, we saw that the salmon sampled were mainly grilse (one sea winter fish), while the sea trout sampled were mainly maidens, with only three samples coming from repeat spawning fish. Of these three, two weighed at least 19lbs and when aged both showed that they were returning to spawn for a fifth time.
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