The Irish loophole behind Apple's low tax bill
Primary accounting records are maintained at Apple's U.S. shared service center in Austin, Texas. Despite this, AOI did not have tax residency in the United States, because, said Lyn Oates, professor of tax and accounting at the University of ...

GOP official: ‘Institutional barriers’ remain for Republican women seeking office
The Republican Party is actively working to recruit more women to run for public office, but they still face "institutional barriers" to getting involved in GOP politics at the ground level, Republican State Leadership Committee President Chris Jankowski ...

Highlights from around the Capitol
BAN ON SHARK ... state's oil and gas boom has drawn a glut of truck traffic to South Texas and the Permian Basin. A separate measure creating a tax financing mechanism to help the affected counties repair roads was approved in both chambers of the ...

Kasowitz Benson, Eversheds, Latham, Davis:Business of Law
... many of the legal theories that underlie insurance recovery law today, and Linda has repeatedly proven her ability to obtain winning results for her clients in high-stakes cases,” Cohen said in a statement. “With their arrival, we will ...

On first day, Ryan gets up to speed with Astros
HOUSTON -- Monday, the first official day on the job for new Astros president of business operations Reid Ryan, included mundane tasks like getting the keys to the building, finding his office and getting his computer set up. He also wasted no ...

Criticized curriculum system scraps lesson plans
He displayed copies of a letter signed by all board members pledging to scrap lesson plans by Aug. 31. The announcement comes as the Texas Legislature was poised to pass a $1.1 million plan to provide strict state oversight for CSCOPE, which has drawn ...