Mardi Gras

Mardi Gras News

  • Americans Paying Up Wherever They Reside Beseech Congress

    The Internal Revenue Service reaches every corner of Charles Allard’s world.

  • Baucus Untethered by Politics Seeks Path to Tax Rewrite

    Max Baucus, declaring himself “unconstrained” by electoral politics for the first time since coming to Congress in 1975, placed a 20-month clock on his efforts to push a tax-code rewrite through the U.S. Senate.

  • Stressed Tax Preparers Find Relief in Mardi Gras, Massages

    Is the U.S. tax code an instrument of torture? At almost 4 million words, it is 14 times as long as the collected novels of, say, Franz Kafka. It has been changed 4,680 times since 2001 -- more than once a day, according to the IRS Taxpayer Advocate. And it takes taxpayers (individuals and businesses) more than 6 billion hours to complete their filings.

  • Macy’s, Rex, Titanic, Pirate Bay: Intellectual Property

    Macy’s Inc., the second-largest U.S. department-store chain, is to appear in court in New York today seeking to permanently block Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc.’s pact with J.C. Penney Co.

  • BP Gulf of Mexico Spill, From Disaster to Trial: Timeline

    The trial that will determine the extent of any liability London-based BP Plc and its partners must face for the April 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill is set to begin today in federal court in New Orleans.

  • Samsung, Jason Wu, Rex, Target: Intellectual Property

    Samsung Electronics Co. asked a U.S. judge to allow it to use documents from its patent-infringement case against Apple Inc. in California for litigation pending between the companies in Japan.

  • Danisco, Goldman, JetBlue: Intellectual Property

    Danisco A/S lost a U.S. court bid to invalidate a Novozymes A/S patent for an enzyme used in biofuel production, allowing the case to go to trial this year.

  • Super Bowl Scene: Benson, Jones, Johnson, Mara, Tisch

    Watch out, New York and New Jersey. Thursday night New Orleans showed how to throw a party as host city of the Super Bowl.

  • Slideshow: The Real Cost of Mardi Gras

    <p>Mardi Gras, with its masquerade balls, beads, and floats is a financial fest for New Orleans. One million people will jam the city's streets during the two weeks leading up to Fat Tuesday (Feb. 21), says Jennifer Day at the New Orleans Convention &amp; Visitors Bureau. In 2011, those visitors had a $300 million economic impact on the city, accounting for 1.5 percent of New Orleans' gross domestic product, according to a study of Mardi Gras prepared by Toni Weiss, an economics professor at Tulane University.</p> Source: Photograph by Gerald Herbert/AP

  • Auto Fair ‘Global-Tini,’ Real TV, Dog Bakery: D.C. Scene

    The Washington Auto Show isn’t just about cars. It’s a must-attend event for lobbyists and regulators.

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