Tax Change Prompts Film Production Fight in Canada
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A tax-break battle has broken out in Canada over millions of dollars in Hollywood film deals, after Ontario boosted incentives for movie makers in a bid to offset pressure from a soaring Canadian dollar.
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Eighteen months after the  outbreak of Israel's war with Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon,  filmmakers from both countries have brought movies conveying  frustration over the conflict to the Sundance Film Festival.
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The looming political battle over how to reform the tangled U.S. income tax code could get ugly. But one option, a tax aimed at boosting savings, holds promise.
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Taxes will have to rise unless the government adopts Tory plans to slash bureaucracy, Oliver Letwin says.
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VANCOUVER -- Canada will step up political pressure on the US government to drop punitive duties on Canadian softwood lumber imports in the wake of a pivotal trade ruling.
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The Toronto International Film Festival, which opened on Thursday, has been all but overrun with films attacking President Bush or the protracted war in Iraq.
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(CP) - More than 20,000 Revenue Canada employees were poised to begin rotating strikes Wednesday after wage talks with the government collapsed.
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British Columbia  said on Friday it plans to extend its tax incentives for film  makers, which have lured movie production work from the United  States and angered Hollywood unions.
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Electronics manufacturers railed   against a European tax on recordable discs and music players   like iPods on Friday, even as a Dutch industry group was   getting ready to impose new local levies on recordable media.
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Chronic bitter enemies -- cable television and telephone companies -- yesterday found something they could agree on: Both industries hate Governor Deval L. Patrick's plans to hit them with an estimated $78 million in new local property taxes as part of Patrick's crackdown on alleged corporate tax loopholes.
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The venture capital industry is worried that a proposed increase in taxes on carried interest would hurt their ability to finance start-up companies.
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"Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry," set to premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, stakes out new territory at the crossroads of politics and cinema.
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Second attempt Canada's Private Copyright Collective (CPCC) is once again trying to find a way to force would-be iPod buyers to pay a copyright tax despite being told in 2004 such a levy is illegal.â¦
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A patent dispute challenged Blockbusterâs entry into online DVD rental. The company also signaled that the new business was taking a toll on its finances.
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The Canadian government, in a radical shift, said on Friday it was time to stop protecting national carrier Air Canada as it mulled whether to lift foreign ownership restrictions on the country&#39;s airlines.
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In response to the rise of film piracy, the film industry in general is calling for stricter Canadian laws.
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Business & money: Change of emphasis to property development provokes outrage.