We were charged thousands by Starbucks in huge error – but when they reimbursed us it got even worse

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A FAMILY say they had to cancel their vacation after a massive mistake in Starbucks left them thousands out of pocket.

When Jesse O’Dell made his morning coffee run on January 7, his wife was shocked to discover a 4-digit charge on their credi…

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Self-reliance in defence production rises

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New Delhi. The government has undertaken a number of policy initiatives for indigenous manufacturing of state-of-the-art technology defence products, parliament was informed on February 10. These initiatives, inter-alia, include: In order to promote indigenous design and development of defence equipment ‘Buy {Indian-IDDM (Indigenously Designed, Developed and Manufactured)}’ category has been accorded top most priority for …

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Hacking the Tax Code

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The tax code isn’t software. It doesn’t run on a computer. But it’s still code. It’s a series of algorithms that takes an input—financial information for the year—and produces an output: the amount of tax owed. It’s incredibly complex code; there are a bazillion details and exceptions and special cases. It consists of government laws, rulings from the tax authorities, judicial decisions, and legal opinions.

Like computer code, the tax code has bugs. They might be mistakes in how the tax laws were written. They might be mistakes in how the tax code is interpreted, oversights in how parts of the law were conceived, or unintended omissions of some sort or another. They might arise from the exponentially huge number of ways different parts of the tax code interact…

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