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Floating Loopholes
This investigation exposes the various loopholes that allow yacht-owners to lower or avoid the taxes they incur by buying luxury boats. Some of the ways people avoid taxes are declaring their yachts as a second home, using charter arrangements and buying yachts offshore to avoid state sales tax.
Tags: boating; water sports; leisure; tax breaks; corporate yachts; ocean; property; coast guard
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Ticket Shock. Business fares increase even as leisure travel keeps getting cheaper. Technology, obscure science make it easy for airlines to manipulate pricing. Fear of undercutting rivals.
This article talks about advances in the airline industry and explains why the industry was becoming increasingly profitable in 1997. It also includes some information about "yield management," the computer system that allows airlines to predict how many last-minute business travelers will show up at the last minute looking for a flight.
Tags: airlines; flight; planes; airport; airline industry; money; yield management
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Air Piracy
Goozner examines the predatory policy that major airplane companies use "to drive an upstart competitors from a route, or out of business entirely." In spite of the deregulation of the airline industry, which started more than 20 years ago and was meant to improve air travel services, these services have been constantly deteriorating over the years, the story finds. The author points out that "even longtime friends of deregulation have grown frustrated by the industry's seemingly inexorable march toward monopolization." The main conclusion is that the government should re-regulate the industry to preserve the benefits of competition while reducing bad customer service.
Tags: business; dumping; hub-and-spoke system; economy; technology; leisure travel; Department of Transportation; airports; Chicago O'Hare; Air Carrier Association of America; politics; pilots
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At Your Expense
WFXT reports on how "Massachusetts state lottery workers travel out of state at taxpayer expense." Through a hidden camera investigation the story details the leisure activities of the lottery director and eights lottery workers during a 5-day conference which has cost the taxpayers $13,000. The reporter shows how during the conference the lottery participants have missed important lessons about preventing compulsive gambling, considered an important issue in Massachusetts.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; Massachusetts Treasury Department; waste of public money; gambling
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No title (id: 12467)
The Kansas City Star uncovers that for more than 50 years, the Kansas City Police Department had a multi-million dollar secret: a slush fund known as the Treasurer's Account or "T-account." The three-day series revealed that while local police had been lobbying for more public money and tax increases to fight crime and hire more offficers, the department secretly had stockpiled as much as $9 million a year for high-ranking officers to use at their leisure.
Tags: Dillon Lynn KCDP Green CAR Contest Entry Organized crime Money Laundering 45 pgs.
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No title (id: 2175)
WMAQ Radio (Chicago) investigates International Sporting and Leisure Club, the largest travel club in the country; finds the club has bumped hundreds of people off their vacation trips at the last moment; also discovers employees charge club membership fees on thousands of people's credit cards without their permission, May 21 - 25, 1979.
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No title (id: 659)
Rocky Mountain Business Journal publishes article on Securities and Exchange Commission probe of American Leisure Corp., developers of an Atlantic City hotel-casino complex, May - June 1981.
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