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111Missing trader fraud — (also called Missing Trader Intra Community, MTIC, or carousel fraud) is the theft of Value Added Tax (VAT) from a government by organised crime gangs who exploit the way VAT is treated within multi jurisdictional trading where the movement of… …
112police — /peuh lees /, n., v., policed, policing. n. 1. Also called police force. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws. 2. (used with a pl. v.) members of such a force: Several police are… …
113United States Treasury security — A United States Treasury security is government debt issued by the United States Department of the Treasury through the Bureau of the Public Debt. Treasury securities are the debt financing instruments of the United States federal government, and …
114List of U.S. state partition proposals — This is a list of official or otherwise noteworthy proposals for dividing existing U.S. states into multiple states. It does not specifically address statewide or other movements to secede from the United States. The word secession can refer to… …
115Gasoline — This article is about the fuel and industrial solvent. For other uses, see Gasoline (disambiguation). Petrol redirects here. For other uses, see Petrol (disambiguation). For the bird group, see petrel. A jar containing gasoline …
116Åland Islands — Åland redirects here. For other uses, see Åland (disambiguation). Åland Islands Landskapet Åland (Ahvenanmaan maakunta) …
117Frederick II — 1. See Frederick I (def. 2). 2. ( Frederick the Great ) 1712 86, king of Prussia 1740 86 (son of Frederick William I). * * * I German Friedrich known as Frederick the Great born Jan. 24, 1712, Berlin died Aug. 17, 1786, Potsdam, near Berlin King… …
118Johannesburg — /joh han is berrg , hah nis /; Du. /yoh hahn euhs buerddkh /, n. a city in S Transvaal, in the NE Republic of South Africa. 1,441,000. * * * City (pop., 1996: metro. area, 1,480,530), northeastern South Africa. One of the country s largest cities …
119Reagan, Ronald W. — ▪ president of United States Introduction in full Ronald Wilson Reagan born February 6, 1911, Tampico, Illinois, U.S. died June 5, 2004, Los Angeles, California 40th president of the United States (1981–89), noted for his conservative… …
120tax system — Spain s tax system is, from 1998, in the process of being reformed. The number of income tax brackets was reduced from eighteen in 1996 to ten in 1997, and a further reduction to six was proposed in 1998. Prior to these reforms, rates ranged… …
