Several defendants in other leak cases pleaded guilty, avoiding a fight over whether the information they had passed on qualified.
Brown also said to Michael Connarty, the Labour chair of the European scrutiny committee, that he was not concerned by the emphasis on qualified majority voting in the treaty, saying that it "has been a feature of every treaty".
It is good news, and shows the government is listening to the concerns of the care sector, that it is considering easing restrictions on qualified nurses coming to the UK from abroad.
Here, after all, was an international pact that dramatically changed the rules on qualified majority voting (as opposed to the system where a single nation could veto a proposal), gave legal force to the EU's charter of fundamental rights and extended the EU's power into areas such as energy and space policy.
New tax laws that cut the tax on qualified dividend income to 15% spurred shareholder interest in dividends and companies responded.
This is calculated as a 30% credit on the first $5,000 you spend on qualified energy-efficient upgrades, including furnaces, air conditioners, insulation, hot water heaters and energy-saving windows even some window shades.
Cash flows from real estate investment trusts (REITs) like Kimco Realty and Duke Realty, for example, are taxed at an investor's ordinary tax rate, which may be significantly higher than the maximum 15% rate on qualified dividends.
Even if a President Kerry could persuade Congress to raise the capital gains rate back up to 20% and get rid of the new 15% top tax on qualified dividends, you'd still want to favor bonds in tax-deferred accounts and stocks in taxable ones.
We need to rely on qualified employee wellness practitioners, like registered dietitians (RDs) who are pros at prevention, rather than resorting to ambiguous standards which do not exist for employee wellness practitioners.
