Saturday, a time for relaxing, catching up on some sleep and socialising. I wish. Alas I have a 100+ slide PowerPoint presentation to translate and seeing as, for some reason, the document did not manage to arrive in my email in-box on Friday, I lost more than half a day which I could have … [Read more...]
The IRAP quandary
July 14, 2007 By 3 Comments
IRAP is a funny little Italian tax which is applied to businesses, except nobody in Italy seems to know which businesses should be liable for it. In October 2009, Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, announced that this tax is to be phased gradually out.This regional tax (IR = Imposta … [Read more...]
A reduction in air pollution levels in Milan, hopefully
July 13, 2007 By 6 Comments
I read that Milan's council is about to introduce a pollution related traffic charge. This means that shortly those who drive vehicles that pollute heavily will have to pay to enter the city. This should reduce the horrendous levels of air pollution which make Milan one of the most polluted … [Read more...]
Adsense
July 12, 2007 By Leave a Comment
While teaching a group of marketing students today, we got talking about Google's Adsense system, which, I have to say, I think is brilliant. It really is a genial system, and it is no wonder that Google makes a bomb from it. I have to admit to clicking on Adsense text ads from time to time, not … [Read more...]
On Teaching Lawyers
July 12, 2007 By Leave a Comment
I'm running a course for a law firm at the moment, and the experience has led me to reminisce. I used to work with lawyers, or solicitors as some are known in the UK, and legal executives, and I remember these people fondly.There was this rather Dickensian chap called Robert Earl, who was quite a … [Read more...]
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