Vat articles
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State school pressure from VAT plans
These are just some of their more recent issues, but I am always drawn to an earlier statement by former First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon: “Let me be clear – I want to be judged on this. If you are not, as First Minister, prepared to put your neck on the line on the education of our young people then what are you prepared to. It really matters.” This to me is the real terms upon which I judge the SNP, because education of our young is what really matters, and they have been badly failed. I sit on...
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The key problem with the "brain in a vat" thought experiment
There is a certain kind of story about nature and our place in it that says all we experience, all we feel, is nothing but neural circuity. According to one thought experiment, if I were a smart enough doctor or computer scientist, I could put your brain in a vat, hook it up to a bunch of electrodes that enable some kind of simulation of the world, and you’d never know the difference. Fed the proper electrical stimulus, your brain would conjure up the exact same experiences as if you were...
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Nigeria's VAT collection, lowest in Africa —Speaker Abbas
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Abbas Tajudeen, has decried that Nigeria’s efficiency in collecting Value Added Tax, VAT, was the lowest among its African peers, indicating significant inefficiencies in its tax system.