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As a team that specializes in Wills, Trusts, and Estate litigation, Kushner Legal has experience drafting up wills for people who want to ensure their final wishes are carried put upon death. In California, the requirements for creating a valid will are set out in Division 6 of the California Probate Code.

Vega Systems Inc. has announced that their Redundancy Management Framework (RMF) software has begun operations at a prominent airport in the Middle East. The airport surveillance software plugin for Milestone XProtect will enhance the effectiveness of video security and surveillance projects. Typically, without the software system, video surveillance down-times at critical infrastructure locations have the potential to create serious security loopholes. However, Vega Systems' RMF reduces live video disruption to milliseconds during server failure episodes while simultaneously providing uninterrupted access to archived footage. This, along with other beneficial features, mitigates the impact of server failures on security overall.

Rosendin Electric, one of the nation’s largest private electrical contractors and a 100% employee-owned company, was back again this year with an extended program to support construction management students participating in the Associated Schools of Construction (ASC) Western Region Student Competition held in Reno, Nevada. Rosendin Electric has committed to support the student teams by offering assistance to any school participating in the competition.

Hong Kong’s Inland Revenue has released its long-awaited Advance Pricing Agreement guidelines, which will initially focus on negotiating bilateral and multilateral APAs specifically with jurisdictions with which Hong Kong has a Double Tax Agreement.

The Canadian Finance Minister announced details of the new tax measures which include an expanded list of medical devices and prescription drugs that are free from Goods and Services Tax/ Harmonized Sales Tax.

Anvato Inc., today announced a partnership with EndPlay Inc. a Los Angeles-based provider of content management, engagement and monetization solutions delivered as software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications in the cloud.

When managing a large network environment, having quick access to necessary hardware is essential. IT professionals everywhere are under pressure to manage infrastructure of ever-increasing complexity. Ensuring these systems remain operational in all circumstances is something which requires a secure, responsive pipeline of various networking components. There isn’t a networking administrator alive who hasn’t faced the difficulty of finding out that an essential piece of hardware is out of stock or on back-order from a key supplier. If something fails and a replacement transceiver or Sun memory module is required, today’s fast-paced business climate dictates that it needs to be available yesterday.

Switzerland and United Kingdom signed a protocol of amendment that supplements their withholding tax agreement of October 6, 2011. The agreement is awaiting approval from the Parliament of both, Switzerland and United Kingdom, to take effect at the beginning of 2013.

China’s pilot scheme for VAT which is intended to replace the current business tax in Shanghai is likely to be extended to Beijing in July, this year. Currently, VAT is being applied only to the manufacturing industry. The pilot VAT rates of 11% and 6% are mainly being introduced to support the services sector such as transportation. China commenced the VAT pilot scheme in Shanghai earlier this year with the aim to start unifying all turnover taxes into VAT and reduce the tax burden on the services sector. The pilot scheme is likely to be extended to other Chinese cities of Tianjin, Chongqing and Shenzhen, and Jiangsu Province.

India’s Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) in a recent notification has provided detailed information that foreign companies with representative or liaison offices must provide to tax authorities in accordance to a 2011 tax law amendment.

The Josephine County Historical Society has hundreds of catalogued photo files, and more in the process of being sorted, which are available for purchase at nominal cost.

TripInsurance.com, the most trusted online resource to help travelers find the trip coverage they need at savings of 40% or more, today announced that LeaderSail, a leadership development program that trains JROTC cadets at sea, has signed TripInsurance.com as the Preferred Provider for travel insurance for students participating in their programs.

IndiaNIC has introduced reforms to the hired services for CakePHP developers. These reformations have provided more flexibility to the hiring options, and would help the clients to hire CakePHP application developers in accordance with their time zones.

The Inland Revenue Department (IRD) announced that it has changed its stance on the long disputed tax deduction of inter-group recharge of employee stock options.

France revises the reporting requirement criteria to grant tax-qualified stock options, free share and Bons de Souscription de Parts de Créateurs d’Entreprise (BSPCE) on January 31, 2012.

Belgium’s prolonged budgetary discussions resulted in an increase in tax on equity based payments particularly stock options and dividends where most taxable benefits on stock options granted will be increased to 18% from the current 15%.

Monitis(TM), the award-winning provider of the leading all-in-one, Cloud-based, IT systems monitoring platform, today announced the launch of the FREE Brandable Reporting Tool, which gives Monitis users the ability to brand their shared Monitis reports and host shared reports under their own domain name.

The Peruvian Government plans to introduce a new Personal Data Protection Law to protect personal data in private and public databases within Peru.

A conservative budget plan for 2012 in Canada proposes to gradually phase out the Overseas Employment Tax Credit (OETC) from the 2013 tax year onwards and reduces the Scientific Research and Experimental Development Program (SR&ED) investment tax credit from 20% to 15%.

Scotts Valley—Marcy McQuillian’s dream has come true. The Nitless Noggins Treatment Center on 4200 Scotts Valley Drive in Scotts Valley is finally open.

eInfochips, a leading product engineering services company, today announced the launch of the smallest form-factor system-on-module (SOM) developed based on DaVinci™ DM816x and DM814x video processors from Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI). eInfochips, which has over 15 years of end-to-end electronic product design and development experience, has developed a pin-compatible SOM for DaVinci DM816x and DM814x video processors with different pin maps.

Belgium published a Decree on Advance Tax Payments by Self Employed persons and companies in March 2012 that defines when the advance tax payments are due and the tax surcharge rates incase insufficient payments are made.

In the case of Mastek Ltd., India’s Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) upheld that Mastek’s (the taxpayer) UK subsidiary was not undertaking merely distributing activities and should be classified as a marketing service provider.

A significant announcement for administrative professionals and executive assistants, happening prior to Administrative Professionals Week April 22nd to 28th, is the official launch of AdminUniverse, along with its website dedicated to enhancing careers in the administrative profession. Office Dynamics International, Inc., the originators of the Star Achievement Series®, has officially made AdminUniverse an authorized user and training facilitator for the program. AdminUniverse is launching Level l of the three part series on May 10, 2012

Chinese authorities have released an updated guidance on the registration process for share plans with the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE), broadening the scope to cover most types of share plans.

Chinese authorities have released an updated guidance on the registration process for share plans with the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE), broadening the scope to cover most types of share plans.

Tom Sorley, Chairman and CEO of Rosendin Electric, one of the nation’s largest private electrical contractors and a 100% employee-owned company, has been inducted as a member of the National Academy of Construction (NAC).