Philly small businesses face a big tax headache as an exemption ends

Small-business advisers and advocates are bracing for a wave of questions as the city’s Business Income & Receipts Tax (BIRT), Philadelphia’s municipal tax that hits both sales and profits, expands to ...
The Guardian

How Lord Birt worked around ban on broadcasting talk as Blair adviser

Newly disclosed documents show how the former BBC director general Lord Birt sought to manoeuvre around a ban on him promoting his personal views on broadcasting while he was working as the prime ...
Technical

Philadelphia just reduced BIRT and wage taxes to the lowest they’ve been in decades. Who should care?

Philadelphians have long complained over the city’s wage tax — an almost 4% deduction from their paychecks for residents, or about 3.5% for non-residents. About a third of states allow for this kind ...
TheServerSide

Intergrating BIRT with PHP

BIRT is a top-level, open-source, Eclipse project that provides business intelligence and reporting tools. Currently, BIRT is best known as a report-creation tool that supports multiple data sources ...