On September 27, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) released its monthly Agricultural Prices report. In part, the NASS report stated that: “The corn price, at $7.35 per bushel, is down 28 cents from last month but 97 cents above September 2011…The soybean price, at $16.30 per bushel, increased 10 cents [...]
: skip to main skip to sidebar Kopsa Otte Agriculture Blog Kopsa Otte CPAs Advisors have been involved in Income Tax Planning , Estate Planning Succession Planning for over 30 years . For more information about Kopsa Otte services , please contact us via e-mail at lkopsa kopsaotte.com or call 800-975-4829. Friday , September 28, 2012 KANSAS CITY FEDERAL RESERVE ON THE NEBRASKA ECONOMY The Kansas City Federal Reserve just issued a paper on the Nebraska economy and I thought that you would be interested the farm numbers especially how it compared the current situation with the problems agriculture had back in the 1980’s . nbsp To equal a 1980s farm income demise , current farm revenue would need to drop by 21.4 and the value of total farm production would need to decrease by 15.7 The paper
Yesterday Rep. Leonard Boswell (D., Iowa), who currently serves on the Ag Committee, sat down with The Des Moines Register editorial board for a wide-ranging discussion on issues associated with his race for Congress in Iowa’s new Third Congressional District against Rep. Tom Latham (R).
Both The Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times included front page stories today on the status of the U.S. Senate elections. The Journal article (“GOP Fight for Control of Senate Hits Snags“) noted that, “Handicappers from both parties had predicted Indiana would be an easy win for Republicans, but the race is now [...]
Yesterday Rep. Tom Latham (R., Iowa) sat down with The Des Moines Register editorial board for a wide-ranging discussion on issues associated with his race for Congress in Iowa’s Third Congressional District against Rep. Leonard Boswell (D), who currently serves on the Agriculture Committee.
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By Sarah Jane Staats - In remarks at the Clinton Global Initiative today, US presidential candidate Mitt Romney said US foreign assistance needs an upgrade for the modern, global economy. He said his “prosperity pact” programs would do better and be a “bold break from the past.” There’s a lot I like about the plan: it’s out there, focuses on [...]
By Amanda Glassman - This year, Revista Epoca reported that a man named Rafael Favaro sued the government of Brazil to obtain public subsidy for lifetime treatment of a rare form of anemia (PNH). His treatment –Soliris- costs Brazilian taxpayers approximately $440,000 per year and is among the most expensive medicines in the world. Most US insurers do not cover [...]
By Todd Moss - What’s going to be President Obama’s legacy on Africa? President Clinton championed AGOA, still the core of US-Africa trade relations. President Bush built PEPFAR and the MCC. There’s an outside chance that Feed the Future could be Obama’s lasting contribution, but I think the jury’s still out. So what kind of big impact-big splash effort [...]
By Arvind Subramanian - This piece originally appeared in the Financial Times on September 23, 2012 (gated) and is posted here with permission. The Indian government’s recent reforms to reduce government subsidies and embrace greater foreign direct investment were unexpected and bold. Markets have rewarded them with surging stock prices and a rebound in the value of the rupee. The reforms [...]
By Will McKitterick - The Senate Foreign Relations Committee gave a stamp of approval to two pieces of US aid reform legislation before heading out for pre-election recess this week. There’s enthusiasm for the Foreign Assistance Transparency and Accountability Act (S.3310) in the development community, but views are mixed on the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review Act (S.3341), which [...]
By Owen Barder - In 2011, the British Department for International Development undertook a thorough review of how it allocated money to 43 multilateral organisations ranging from the World Bank to the Commonwealth Secretariat. The Multilateral Aid Review was intended to improve both the value for money of Britains multilateral aid, and the transparency and accountability of aid spending. This week, Britain’s [...]: skip to main skip to sidebar Kopsa Otte Agriculture Blog Kopsa Otte CPAs Advisors have been involved in Income Tax Planning , Estate Planning Succession Planning for over 30 years . For more information about Kopsa Otte services , please contact us via e-mail at lkopsa kopsaotte.com or call 800-975-4829. Friday , September 21, 2012 SECTION 179 FOR 2013 As we are doing year end tax planning , the question has come up several times on how to plan for the fast write off of equipment called section 179. It is . confusing The current law is a limit of 25,000 for 2013, but will Congress change this low . number Who knows Both the President and Congress have discussed increasing the deduction up to 500,000 with a phase-out starting at 2 . million It appears at the moment that the Democrats are: skip to main skip to sidebar Kopsa Otte Agriculture Blog Kopsa Otte CPAs Advisors have been involved in Income Tax Planning , Estate Planning Succession Planning for over 30 years . For more information about Kopsa Otte services , please contact us via e-mail at lkopsa kopsaotte.com or call 800-975-4829. Friday , September 21, 2012 THIS TYPE OF CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION DOES NOT WORK I don’t know how many times I have been asked if this charitable strategy will work . Give money to a charitable organization and then have them give a scholarship to a related party . Someone apparently tried this and the IRS weighed . in In a recent case , the IRS ruled that making a donation for one person’s benefit kills the tax deduction . In this situation , a donor who contributed to her church’s
By Julie Walz - This is a joint post with Vijaya Ramachandran. The first-ever National Business Census began in Haiti this month. A census of formal and informal businesses has never been conducted and there is no comprehensive business database. Although a daunting task, the census will likely help to strengthen small and medium enterprises and increase local procurement. The [...]By Victoria Fan - This is a joint post with Rachel Silverman. As the Global Fund’s November board meeting approaches – where the future of the Affordable Medicines Facility for Malaria (AMFm) hangs in the balance – there is much anxiety that AMFm will be terminated in 2013. The reason for such anxiety is clear: no donors have pledged [...]
By Michael Clemens - Yesterday I discovered a development organization so revolutionary, most people wouldn’t even call it a development organization. It’s a non-profit called the Independent Agricultural Worker Center (CITA). CITA is a matchmaker between farms and seasonal agricultural workers. The farms are in the United States; almost all of the workers are in Mexico. CITA brings them [...]
By Beth Schwanke - Would you invest in a project that looks to reduce the incidence of ‘Rhodesian’ sleeping sickness in cattle in Uganda? What if you could make a return on that investment? You can’t do it yet but if CGD and Social Finance’s Development Impact Bonds Working Group keeps charging ahead, you just might be able to [...]By Amanda Glassman - This is a joint post with Jenny Ottenhoff. The Global Health Initiative was launched by the Obama Administration in 2009 as a new way for the United States to do business in global health. Three years later – suffering from a lack of mandate – the GHI was dissolved and in its place a new [...]: skip to main skip to sidebar Kopsa Otte Agriculture Blog Kopsa Otte CPAs Advisors have been involved in Income Tax Planning , Estate Planning Succession Planning for over 30 years . For more information about Kopsa Otte services , please contact us via e-mail at lkopsa kopsaotte.com or call 800-975-4829. Wednesday , September 19, 2012 EMAIL SCAM NOT FROM IRS We have been notified by several of our clients , that they have received an email that looks like this one : below : Subject Your IRS tax transfer is . declined Your Income Tax remittance ID : xxxxxxxxxxx recently ordered for processing from your bank account was turned down by your Bank . Rejected Tax transfer Tax Transaction ID : Row of numbers here Reason of rejection See details in the report below Income Tax Transaction ReportBy Victoria Fan - This is a joint post with Laura Khan of Princeton University. One year ago, the United Nations held a high-level meeting on non-communicable disease (NCD) prevention and control that culminated in a General Assembly Resolution 66/2 to adopt a 13-page “political declaration” to “address the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases worldwide.” The event presented [...]
By William Savedoff - I frequently get inquiries from organizations that recognize the importance of rigorous evaluation and yet aren’t quite sure how they can do it. They see the growing number of random assignment or quasi-experimental studies and are attracted to the apparent objectivity and relative certainty of quantitative studies, but they are often reticent to dive into [...]
By Victoria Fan - This is a joint post with Rachel Silverman. UNITAID: maybe you’ve heard of it, or maybe not. Launched in 2006, UNITAID has lived in the shadow of its older and bigger global-health siblings (the Global Fund, GAVI, and PEPFAR, to name a few). Perhaps due to its relative obscurity and late entry to a crowded [...]
By Kimberly Ann Elliott - Avaaz, a member-based NGO that describes itself as a “global web movement to bring people-powered politics to decision-making everywhere,” is taking aim at the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). According to Avaaz, the TPP is a “top-secret, global corporate power grab of breathtaking scope,” that will result in “a giant global pact, with an international tribunal to [...]By Sarah Jane Staats - This is a joint post with Will McKitterick. After a whopping forty-four months, the White House nominated a USAID assistant administrator for legislative and public affairs yesterday. Chuck Cooper, if confirmed by the Senate, would move to USAID from a similar (though not Senate-confirmed) position at MCC. The kicker? The Senate is scheduled to recess [...]: skip to main skip to sidebar Kopsa Otte Agriculture Blog Kopsa Otte CPAs Advisors have been involved in Income Tax Planning , Estate Planning Succession Planning for over 30 years . For more information about Kopsa Otte services , please contact us via e-mail at lkopsa kopsaotte.com or call 800-975-4829. Thursday , September 13, 2012 YOU CAN'T ROUND ON YOUR PAYROLL REPORTS This was hard to . believe The IRS put out a memo and said that rounding to the nearest dollar on Form 941 is not . allowable Neither the form nor instructions permit rounding . And the law gives filers the option to report in cents on all tax forms , so IRS can’t remove the cents column . Employers will have to keep reporting their payroll tax liability to the . penny Make any cent's to you . Posted by Legal :: skip to main skip to sidebar Kopsa Otte Agriculture Blog Kopsa Otte CPAs Advisors have been involved in Income Tax Planning , Estate Planning Succession Planning for over 30 years . For more information about Kopsa Otte services , please contact us via e-mail at lkopsa kopsaotte.com or call 800-975-4829. Thursday , September 13, 2012 IRS ANNOUNCES 2013 IRA AND GIFT TAX NUMBERS Two tax breaks will be larger next year , thanks to an increase in . inflation The ceiling on IRA contributions will jump to 5,500, a 500 increase As a result , taxpayers age 50 or older in 2013 will be able to put in up to 6,500. It is also calculated that the annual gift tax exclusion will rise to 14,000, up 1,000 from 2012. This is not official . yet The Revenue Service will officially announce these figures: skip to main skip to sidebar Kopsa Otte Agriculture Blog Kopsa Otte CPAs Advisors have been involved in Income Tax Planning , Estate Planning Succession Planning for over 30 years . For more information about Kopsa Otte services , please contact us via e-mail at lkopsa kopsaotte.com or call 800-975-4829. Wednesday , September 12, 2012 ACCOUNTANTS NOT OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THE ECONOMIC FUTURE I don't think any profession is in a better position to judge the economy than . CPAs We are on the front line dealing with clients in all aspects of their . business Now a new survey from our governing organization , the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants AICPA shows that CPA's economic outlook has . diminished CPA executives’ optimism over the U.S . economy has faded substantially overBy Sarah Jane Staats - The MCC Board of Directors is scheduled to meet September 13th. On the agenda: MCC’s forthcoming selection criteria and methodology report, impact evaluations, an update on closing Mali’s compact post-coup, and MCC’s gender approach. Not on the agenda (again): missing board members. FY2013 Selection Begins: The MCC released the first of several reports in the run-up [...]
By Amanda Glassman - This is a joint post with Kate McQueston. There’s an AIDS spending cliff in Ethiopia and the government is already in free fall. Next year, Ethiopia will experience a 79% reduction in US HIV financing from PEPFAR. The announcement of these cuts came with an explanation that PEPFAR was “free(ing) up resources by reducing programs [...]
By Charles Kenny - Impressed by the response to Justin Sandefur’s recent CGD blog entry, I’ve titled this post in an attempt to sex up the topic of government procurement. No need, you say? What’s hotter than one hundred pages of legalese and a bill of quantities detailing asphalt and gravel? The below is for you, and it ends [...]: skip to main skip to sidebar Kopsa Otte Agriculture Blog Kopsa Otte CPAs Advisors have been involved in Income Tax Planning , Estate Planning Succession Planning for over 30 years . For more information about Kopsa Otte services , please contact us via e-mail at lkopsa kopsaotte.com or call 800-975-4829. Friday , September 7, 2012 SAFE HARVEST Life gets especially busy this time of year in rural Nebraska as farmers jump full swing into harvest . Farmers have a high level of stress and anxiety to get a lot done in a short . time As the days progress swiftly toward winter , farm work too moves at an often frantic pace with long days behind the wheel of a combine or a tractor or a truck . With those increased work hours come fatigue and the very real danger that one slip , one wrong move ,: , skip to main skip to sidebar Kopsa Otte Agriculture Blog Kopsa Otte CPAs Advisors have been involved in Income Tax Planning , Estate Planning Succession Planning for over 30 years . For more information about Kopsa Otte services , please contact us via e-mail at lkopsa kopsaotte.com or call 800-975-4829. Thursday , September 6, 2012 DROUGHT , LOW EXPORT DEMAND SAPPING MIDWEST ECONOMY AP JournalStar.com The AP reports that the latest Mid-America Business Conditions Index shows continuing drought and reduced export demand for U.S . products are draining the economy in nine Midwest and Plains states , including Nebraska . nbsp The index in August remained below growth neutral for a second month in a row , the first time that has happened since July 2009. Creighton University economist: skip to main skip to sidebar Kopsa Otte Agriculture Blog Kopsa Otte CPAs Advisors have been involved in Income Tax Planning , Estate Planning Succession Planning for over 30 years . For more information about Kopsa Otte services , please contact us via e-mail at lkopsa kopsaotte.com or call 800-975-4829. Thursday , September 6, 2012 FOOD STAMP USE HITS RECORD HIGH Food stamp use reached a record high in June , the U.S . Department of Agriculture said this week , with 46.7 million people enrolled in the program for low-income families . The latest figures mean that food stamps will once again be a flash point in the presidential campaign . The number of people on food stamps rose 0.4 percent from May and was 3.3 percent higher than a year earlier . Too many middle-class families who have: skip to main skip to sidebar Kopsa Otte Agriculture Blog Kopsa Otte CPAs Advisors have been involved in Income Tax Planning , Estate Planning Succession Planning for over 30 years . For more information about Kopsa Otte services , please contact us via e-mail at lkopsa kopsaotte.com or call 800-975-4829. Wednesday , September 5, 2012 ON A PERSONAL NOTE I hope everyone had a great Labor Day weekend . I spent the weekend camping out and canoeing with my 15 year old son , Ryan and his Boy Scout Troop . We spent a day on the water going down the Niobrara river . This beautiful river has been named one of the top 25 canoeing rivers in the United States . The scenery and the wild life are amazing . Even though the bugs were really bad and it was really hot , it was a great time . I should add