Michigan Laptop Sales

(l) The sales, negotiable instruments, and secured transactions articles of the Uniform Commercial Code ... [Read More]

Michigan FACE Report No. 02MI106
On Friday, August 9, 2002, a 26-year-old technical sales representative employed by a highway traffic management firm and her partner were activating electronic boards for flashing highway work zone traffic control signals with a laptop computer. The 3.2 miles of highway construction work was scheduled to start on Monday, August 19, 2002. The dynamic lane merge system signs advised motorists to merge from three lanes to two lanes as they entered the work zone. She and her partner had been working on the project for about a week. ... [Read More]

New Residential Sales Documentation
II. DEFINITIONS New Residential Sales New residential sales estimates only include new single-family residentialstructures. Sales of multi-family units are excluded from these statistics.To be included in the sales estimates the sales transaction must intendto include both the house and the land. All new houses are not includedin our new residential sales estimates, only houses sold prior to beingbuilt or built for sale are included in these statistics. Excluded fromthese estimates are houses built for rent, houses built by the owner, andhouses built by a general contractor on the owner's land. New Houses Sold A house is considered sold when either a sales contract has been signedor a deposit accepted.   Included in our estimates are housesfor which a sales contract is signed or deposit accepted before constructionhas actually started; for instance, houses sold from a model or from plansbefore any work has started on the footings or foundations.  Theseestimates also inc ... [Read More]

Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement: States' Efforts to Facilitate Sales Tax Collection From Remote Vendors
    I realize that many state tax officials hail the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement (''SSTA'') as an epochal event in sales and use tax reform. The reality, however, bears little similarity to the hyperbole. The truth is that the Streamlined Sales Tax Project (''SSTP'' or ''Project'') has woefully failed to fulfill its original goal of simplifying and harmonizing the existing morass of state and local sales and use tax laws. Indeed, the representatives of the states participating in the Project have, at every critical juncture, turned away from real and substantive tax reform in order to cling to the many diverse and unique features of their individual state tax systems. It is this disparity in state and local sales taxes that makes the existing tax regime so ill-suited to interstate commerce. The Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement, in its current form, falls far short of its professed objective of simplifying state taxes and, to the contrary, in many ... [Read More]

FreedomCAR: Getting New Technology into the Marketplace
    Ladies and gentlemen, in the next 10–20 years energy-efficient fuel cells will be powering many of our vehicles. And, because the technology is highly scalable, fuel cells can be used to power anything from a laptop computer to a hospital. Therefore, fuel cells will also be powering many of our homes and a host of other day-to-day products. ...

we present a summary of composition of vehicles subject to CAFÉ regulation that were sold in year 2000, along with the fuel economy average for each class. By combining sales volumes with combined fuel economy values, we calculated the overall combined fuel economy to be 24.6 mpg. ... [Read More]

FRB: Beige Book - Full report
Manufacturing activity grew faster at most firms. Electrical and electronic firms reported accelerated sales growth which "exceeded expectations," boosted by strong sales of wireless products and personal computers. Most chip fabrication plants were running at close to full capacity. Petrochemical sales were boosted by strong demand in the U.S. and Asia. Sales of cement, concrete, brick, paper products, fabricated metals and most apparel products were up slightly in the past six weeks. A fabricated metals producer worried that sales were inflated by Y2K-related buildups in customer inventories, while a lumber producer said that Y2K concerns may have caused customers to delay purchases until the new year. Sales of lumber and food products were steady. Warm weather dampened sales of fleece-lined apparel. Primary metals producers reported weaker sales--possibly due to large customer inventories. Glass product sales declined, and refinery activity slowed. ... [Read More]

New Housing Characteristics Documentation
The sales price used in the survey for new houses sold is the priceagreed upon between purchaser and seller (and reported by the latter)at the time the first sales contract is signed or deposit is made forthe house. The sales price does not reflect any subsequent pricechanges resulting from change orders or from any other factorsaffecting the price of the house. Furthermore, the sales price does notinclude the cost of any extras or options paid for in cash by thepurchaser or otherwise not included in the original sales pricereported by the seller. Start ... [Read More]

Internet Tax Nondiscrimination Act
TOP OF DOC      Discriminatory Taxes. Sections 1104(2) (A) (iii) and 2(B) (ii) (II) of the1998 Internet Tax Freedom Act and its successor, the Internet Tax Nondiscrimination Act, are components of the definition a discriminatory tax. In its entirety, the definition was intended to protect on-line retailers from unfair taxation by states and localities so that e-commerce would receive same tax treatment as all other forms of remote commerce. Read together, the interplay between these two provisions could have another, unintended effect by encouraging brick and mortar retailers to engage in sophisticated tax planning strategies that will allow them to escape the responsibility to collect sales tax on sales made in those states where they otherwise have clear sales tax nexus. Across the nation, large brick and mortar retailers with nexus in various states have attempted to escape sales tax collection on in-state sales by creating a separate, out-of-state Internet-bas ... [Read More]

Cocaine - Pennsylvania Drug Threat Assessment
In Philadelphia, cocaine sales take place in vast open-air drug markets dominated by street- level workers, often composed of friends and relatives who may live in the area. They are typically paid a small commission. Street gang members sometimes act as street-level workers. ...

Philadelphia and New York City are the primary distribution centers for cocaine distributed at the wholesale level in Pennsylvania. In eastern Pennsylvania, Philadelphia-based Colombian DTOs operate at the highest level and are the primary wholesale cocaine distributors. Dominican DTOs operate at the wholesale and midlevel, and sometimes act as midlevel street sales managers, controlling street corners, stash houses, and employing and supplying the street-level workers who sell directly to the customers. Mexican criminal groups reportedly are attempting to increase their share of the wholesale cocaine market in eastern Pennsylvania and elsewhere on the East Coast, according to the Philadelphia/Camden High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA). ... [Read More]

Recipients of the National Medal of Technology
For its many innovations over decades, producing thousands of successfully commercialized products, from the unique optical film that revolutionized the design of laptop computer screens to breakthrough technologies that make possible the ubiquitous "Post-It¨ Repositionable Notes. For aggressive international expansion producing nearly half of 3M's $14 billion in sales, including $1.5 billion in U.S. exports. And for creating 86,000 jobs worldwide, including 48,000 in the U.S. ... [Read More]