President Obama announced an agreement with Congressional Republicans Monday. It would extend for two years the tax cuts put in place by former president George W. Bush. The tax cuts were to end in January. The compromise extends current income tax r

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BEIJING, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- Jame Cameron's Titanic 3D was the biggest tax contributor among foreign movies China imported in 2012, according to Beijing Customs Friday. The movie took 144 million U.S. dollars at the country's box office. Figures rele

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WASHINGTON, March 29 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama pressed the Congress on Thursday to end billions of dollars in subsides handed out to oil companies each year. Today, Members of Congress have a simple choice to make, said Obama. They can

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WASHINGTON, March 3 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell on Sunday said that he opposed raising taxes to solve U.S. government's spending problem and replace the ongoing government's spending cuts. We have a spending addiction in

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The U.S. Senate has passed a compromise measure that extends payroll tax cuts for American workers for another two months. Lawmakers in the upper house of Congress overwhelmingly passed the legislation by a vote of 89 to 10, a day after Republicans a

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