Then came a new scandal, legislative earmarks, lawmakers writing special provisions to finance pet projects back home.
In December officials from Britain's financial-services regulator went to New York to study America's bankruptcy code, which has special provisions for investment banks.
Italian liberal Sonia Alfano said many of her Italian colleagues would refuse to support the report unless there were further special provisions on immigration.
Just a few months after the reform's passage, however, the industry of lobbyists was back urging that their clients' special provisions be added back to the law.
And the tax writers continue to churn out special provisions.
And if you look at where the benefit of those tax expenditures go, the vast majority of special provisions and preferential rates are for those with the highest incomes.
It has also become the dominant coding guide for insurance companies, schools and other agencies responsible for covering or creating special provisions for individuals with developmental or mental disorders.
The special provisions under which this subsidy apparatus functions take a variety of forms, covering exclusions from income, exemptions, deductions, credits against tax, preferential rates of tax, and deferrals of tax.
Heartened by the success of a whistleblower program for nontax issues such as government contracts, Congress overhauled the special tax provisions on whistleblowers and set up the IRS's large-award program.
If it becomes burdened with hundreds of extra special-interest provisions, as Smoot-Hawley was, and wins passage because of them as Smoot-Hawley did, Schumer-Somebody will retire the trophy.
The Bill repeals the Prevention of Terrorism Act but re-enacts provisions giving special powers to the police to counter terrorism.
He lives under provisions of special security at Princeton University in America where, having been poached from his native Australia, he now teaches.
The other 14 brokers and dealers whose audits were selected did not maintain a Special Reserve Bank Account and reported compliance with the exemptive provisions of Rule 15c3-3.
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Against the headwinds of the slowest recovery since 1960, small business owners are dealing with a tax system that is hopelessly complex, full of provisions that expire every one or two years, riddled with special exemptions, deductions and preferences and filled with new penalties.
For starters, eliminating anything from the Code has become an exercise in futility in light of the army of special interest groups and professional lobbyists who fight on behalf of even the most narrow, industry-specific provisions contained in the law.
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