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Adoor Prakash

He served as the Minister of Food & Civil supplies in the Oommen Chandy Ministry from 2004 to 2006.Presently he is the Revenue Minister of Kerala in the cabinet headed by Oommen Chandy.

Air Panama

On December 20, 1989, during the United States invasion of Panama, two Britten-Norman Islander aircraft owned by PARSA that were out of service due to the suspension of revenue service in the country were damaged beyond repair in crossfire and they were written off.

Alzheimer Society of Toronto

The Government of Ontario provides about eight per cent of the society’s revenue.

Badar Ali

His son, Nazir Ali (1805 - 1890), worked as a Revenue Minister under Babu Kunwar Singh and Amar Singh Rathore in Arrah, Bihar.

BahnCard

More than half of the passenger revenue of DB Fernverkehr (long-distance) comes from tickets sold to BahnCard holders.

Benjamin Bristow

He prosecuted the so-called "Whiskey Ring," which was headquartered in St. Louis, and which, beginning in 1870 or 1871, had defrauded the federal government out of a large part of its rightful revenue from the distillation of whiskey.

Big Six law firms

Golden Circle (used by The Economist, for example; also Silver Circle, which was coined by The Lawyer magazine in 2005): mid-market or boutique law firms in the UK with profits per partner levels similar to those of the Magic Circle but being much smaller in terms of overall turnover and numbers of lawyers

Bradley-Burns uniform local tax law

Generally the revenue obtained from the uniform local tax funds various county and city needs such as transportation and operation funds.

Charles H. Treat

In 1896 President William McKinley appointed him the collector of Internal Revenue for the Wall Street District, Elihu Root and Cornelius N. Bliss being his sponsors.

Cherukallayi

Cherukallayi is a revenue village which forms a part of Mahé municipality of Puducherry, India.

Cigarette taxes in the United States

This occurred as a result of the Union’s increasing debt during the American Civil War and the Federal government’s need for additional revenue.

CKJN-FM

CHCD contested the station could only survive on advertising revenue from Simcoe and Norfolk County, even in spite a condition of license barring it from soliciting local advertising in Simcoe (and also nearby Brantford).

Dennis Mannion

While working for the Ravens organization he oversaw the development of TV and radio shows focusing on the team, expanded Ravens branding opportunities and revenue streams, and brought such events as the 2000 and 2007 Army-Navy Game to M&T Bank Stadium.

Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft

A large proportion of the revenue generated by the championship went to the FIA, with the result that less went to the teams who subsequently complained of little return on their increasingly large investment in the high-tech series (this was further exacerbated by the travel costs to the new international rounds in Suzuka, Japan and Interlagos, Brazil).

Devon Belle

Both observation cars have been preserved in England and are still in revenue-earning service: No.13 is working on the Dartmouth Steam Railway, in south Devon; while No.14 is now at the Swanage Railway in Dorset, after a lengthy sojourn in North America.

Divine Rapture

The small Irish town of Ballycotton in County Cork where filming took place on it in the summer of 1995 expected to generate significant revenue during filming.

Doom novels

Multiple armed forces are sent to Salt Lake City to detain or fight the resistance, including the United States Army, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the Internal Revenue Service 'revenue collection' strike force.

Electronic tax filing

EFILE, a Canada Revenue Agency system for professional tax preparers

Elisabeth of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brunswick-Calenberg-Göttingen

Elisabeth managed to force Eric into giving her a more profitable wittum than their marriage contract required: instead of the district of Calenberg in the Unterwald region, which contained Calenberg Castle, Neustadt and Hanover and provided little revenue, she received Oberwald, with the towns of Münden, Northeim and Göttingen, which provided more revenue and greated political weight.

Elizabeth Chittick

Chittick was the first woman civilian administrator of the U.S. Naval Air Stations in Seattle, Washington and Banana River, Florida, the first woman to be a registered representative of the New York Stock Exchange, and the first female revenue collections officer with the Internal Revenue Service.

Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative

Members of the IAG included: Azerbaijan, France, Nigeria, Norway, Peru and the United States; Anglo-American, BP, Chevron and Petrobras; the Azerbaijan EITI Coalition, Global Witness, Revenue Watch Institute, West African Catholic Bishops Conference; and F&C Asset Management.

Finance Secretary

The Ministry of Finance is composed of five departments: the Department of Economic Affairs, the Department of Revenue, the Department of Expenditure, the Department of Financial Services and Department of Disinvestment.

Henry Bunbury

Sir Henry Bunbury, 3rd Baronet (1676–1733), British MP for Chester, Commissioner of the Revenue for Ireland

Hollywood Casino Hotel and Raceway

Taxes on the casino's revenue contributed approximately $12 million USD to the City of Bangor's construction of the Cross Insurance Center, located across the street from the Casino.

Hoxton Park, New South Wales

A further development of note took place circa 1857 with the construction of Bernera, a weatherboard homestead built by Allan Macpherson, son of a former Collector of Internal Revenue, William Macpherson.

Janak Singh

Major General Janak Singh (surname Katoch) CIE, OBI, ( 7 Aug 1872- 15 Mar 1972) hailed from Village Khaira,District Kangra in the present day State of Himachal Pradesh in India.He was Army Minister and later Revenue minister in the government of Maharaja Hari Singh of Jammu and Kashmir State.

John Macdonald Cameron

In 1870 he gained a Board of Inland Revenue scholarship in Science and studied at the Royal School of Mines winning 1st class prize in Organic and Inorganic Chemistry.

John Swofford

During his tenure he has doubled the ACC's annual revenue, served as Chairman of the Bowl Championship Series in college football in 2000 and 2001, and expanded the ACC to include Boston College, Virginia Tech, the University of Miami, the University of Pittsburgh, Syracuse University, the University of Notre Dame, and the University of Louisville by 2014.

John VII, Count of Oldenburg

In 1577, he had to concede the revenue from Harpstedt, Delmenhorst, Varel and some minor castles to his younger brother Anthony II for a 10-year period.

Khoo Thean Teik

Apart from the monopolies for tobacco, liquor, opium and gambling revenue farming in Perak that these two jointly obtained from Sir Hugh Low, British Resident at Perak in 1889, they were both heads of their respective secret societies which were allied against their common foe, the Ghee Hin.

Lelam

He also shares a passionate relation with Gowri Parvathi (Nandini), the RDO (Revenue Divisional Officer) and of royal lineage.

Load factor

Passenger load factor, the ratio of revenue passenger miles to available seat miles of a particular transportation operation (e.g. a flight)

Maraba coffee

The farmers hoped that by forming the association, they would increase revenue by selling directly to exporters in Kigali instead of through an intermediary transport company.

Marquis de Bussy-Castelnau

In 1753, a Paravana of Asif ad-Dawlah Mir Ali Salabat Jang, Subedar of Deccan conceded to Marquis de Bussy the paraganas of Chicacole, Ellore, Rajahmundry etc. with an annual revenue RS.2, 00,000 for the maintenance of the French troops in the Subah in recognition of the help of these Circars amounted up to 10 lakhs of Rupees per year.

Michael O'Dwyer

He distinguished himself in land revenue settlement work, and was made director of land records and agriculture in Punjab (1896); next year he was placed in charge of settlements of Alwar and Bharatpur states.

Morton Dean Joyce

The Morton Dean Joyce Collection of United States Revenue Stamps was sold at the Daniel F. Kelleher Company auction June 4 to 6, 1991 and by the auction house of Andrew Levitt, in Danbury, Connecticut, in six sessions from September 12 to 14.

Mysore Ring Road

In 2013, the MUDA proposed to impose toll on the road and charge extra cess from people who owned land around the road in order to raise revenue for future development citing lack of funds.

Nolan Watson

With six metal stream deals completed and the first revenue from Sandstorm Gold in his sights, Watson saw an opportunity to apply the metal streaming business model to the base metal, bulk commodity and energy sectors and Sandstorm Metals & Energy was born.

Norris Wright Cuney

In 1872 he was appointed the federal inspector of customs for the Port of Galveston and revenue inspector at Sabine Pass.

Operation Luna

The IRS (Inquisition for Revenue Securement) and NASA (National Astral Spellcraft Administration) also become involved.

Pankanergaon

New technologies have arrived including the cell phone and this has increased possible sources of employment and revenue.

Pay-per-call

Call Tracking is a key part of the technology that enables Pay-per-Call - The ability to track calls in a similar way to clicks, allows Pay-per-Call providers to account for results and to reward partners for performance, on a revenue-share basis.

Prime brokerage

The financing and lending spreads, which are charged in basis points on the value of client loans (debit balances), client deposits (credit balances), client short sales (short balances), and synthetic financing products such as swaps and CFDs (Contract for difference), make up the vast majority of prime brokerage revenue.

Public school

State school in various countries, including Australia, Canada, Scotland, and the United States; a school funded with tax revenue and administered by a government or governmental agency

Rolls-Royce Trent 900

Rolls-Royce has seven risk and revenue sharing partners on the Trent 900: Industria de Turbo Propulsores (low pressure turbine), Hamilton Sundstrand (electronic engine controls), Avio S.p.A. (gearbox module), Marubeni Corporation (engine components), Volvo Aero (intermediate compressor case), Goodrich Corporation (fan casings and sensors) and Honeywell (pneumatic systems).

Telestream

Many media and entertainment companies such as CBS, BBC, CNN, Fox, CBC, Comcast, DirecTV, Time Warner, MTV, Discovery, and Lifetime, as well as a number of users in a broad range of business environments, rely on Telestream products to streamline operations, reach broader audiences and generate more revenue from their media.

Toolson v. New York Yankees

Two justices (Stanley Forman Reed and Harold Hitz Burton) dissented from the short, unsigned per curiam majority opinion, arguing MLB and its revenue sources had changed enough since 1922 that the logic of that case no longer applied.

Ultimate Air Combat

The story begins when the White House calls an emergency meeting, where they reveal that the military dictator Don Gwano is using the high revenue from his large oil exports to fund his large army and navy.

United States House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures

The Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measure is a subcommittee of the Committee on Ways and Means in the United States House of Representatives.

Waterguard

The Waterguard was the name given to a division of HM Customs and Excise responsible for the collection of customs and excise revenue from the passengers and crew of ships and aircraft, and other incoming travellers to the United Kingdom.


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