Author: chris

Should the U.S. Convert to a Zero Personal Income Tax? 

 

In a recent news article located at http://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/heres-where-your-federal-income-tax-dollars-go-f654971, NBC News reported that the U.S. Government spends $3.6 trillion per year to fund Social Security, Medicare, homeland defense and safety, education, transportation, and the interest on debt obligations. In spite of the services and benefits that the government provides, many taxpayers dread paying income taxes but consider them a necessary evil. Consequently, there is much debate about the inequities contained within the tax code, due to tax shelters and tax credits provided to some taxpayers which thereby increase the tax burden on others.

 

Using the Internet or Strayer Library, research at least two (2) countries that have a zero income tax rate.

 

Write a four to five 5 pages paper in which you:

 

1. Analyze the way in which the two (2) countries that you have researched provide services and benefits to its citizens without collecting personal income taxes.
2. For the countries that you have chosen, determine whether or not the U.S. could adopt their taxation model without reducing its total amount of revenue generated by collecting personal income taxes from individuals and business. Justify your response.
3. Suggest at least three (3) advantages and three (3) disadvantages of the U.S. adopting a zero income tax model. Provide a rationale for your response.
4. Create a proposal for where the revenue would be derived if the U.S. were to adopt a zero income tax model. In your response, provide specific recommendations concerning the following:
   1. The proposed tax base.
   2. Whether or not tax payers at certain income levels should be exempt from taxation.
   3. The primary way in which the IRS would calculate the tax rate in order to ensure that the same level of tax revenue would still be collected.
   4. The primary way in which your plan will achieve equity.
5. Speculate on the primary way in which the federal government could make up any shortfalls if it does not collect its targeted revenue from personal income taxes, and ascertain the most significant way in which the U.S. Department of the Treasury, through the IRS, can still adhere to its fiscal and monetary policies. Justify your response.
6. Use at least four (4) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.

 

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

 

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

 

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

 

• Examine the types of taxes imposed at the federal, state, and local levels; the federal tax formula; and the rules for arriving at personal and dependency exemptions.
• Analyze the concepts of gross income and distinguish between the economic, accounting, and tax concepts of gross income and strategies to minimize gross income, maximize deductions, and minimize disallowance of deductions
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in federal taxation.
• Write clearly and concisely about federal taxation using proper writing mechanics.

This assignment must be done on Grant Memorial Hospital in Petersburg West Virginia.

Make revisions to the Week 4 assignment based on your instructor’s and peers’ feedback. The assignment from Week 4 is listed below:

Deliverable Length- SWOT analysis and 3–4 paragraphs on the Joint Commission (Part I)

Part I

Review The Joint Commission standards for the type of health care organization that you chose in Week 1 and that you have used throughout this course.

 

Identify at least two sections of the standards (e.g., environment of care, leadership).

Describe how these sections are implemented in your selected health care facility.

Make recommendations for improvement.

Part II

An integral part of the strategic planning process is to gather information. One method of doing this is by conducting a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis. Now that you have reviewed your chosen standards, you will examine the impact of both internal and external forces on your chosen facility.

 

Conduct a SWOT analysis for your chosen facility that examines the forces that may affect the facility.

• Be sure to pay particular attention to the issues of financing, productivity, and marketing, as well as others you feel have the potential to impact the facility.

Present your SWOT analysis using a standard SWOT analysis matrix.

• Below your SWOT analysis, identify and discuss at least one issue from each section of your SWOT analysis in further detail in an effort to analyze why you feel the chosen issue may have the greatest impact on the facility.
• When discussing your weakness and threats, be sure to include:

1–2 goals that should be created to improve in these areas

 

A brief description (1–2 paragraphs) of a plan of action to improve in these area that includes how you will accomplish the goals that you set in the first bullet point. In an action plan, there is usually a time frame, steps to how you plan to meet the goals you set, and how you will measure the goals.

Capstone Project

Section 2

Analysis of the organization

Be sure to cite at least 4 references in this section. This section is to be 1200-1600 words in length and

Deliverable Length: 850-1350 words with a minimum of 4-8 scholarly references

Transformational Change Management Plan

You will create an entire Transformational Change Management Plan for a medium-sized public company that has lost business to a competitor that has chosen

to outsource much of its production operations. The company has been based in a small Midwestern town, it is one of the largest employers, and it has an

excellent reputation for employee welfare. It is now planning to do the very same offshoring, which will involve large lay-offs of long-term employees.

 

The Key Assignment

 

The project deliverables are as follows:

 

1. Introduction

2. What is driving the need for this transformational change?

3. Theories of Change Management

4. Communication Plan

5. Implementation Plan

Create an APA title page and the following sections:

1. Introduction (250-300 words) You will research and find an example of a firm that is going through the transformational change of offshoring much of its

production activities. The first part of the plan will be the Introduction. Context for the introduction includes the following:

 

What is offshoring?

How were the stakeholders affected?

What initiated the change?

How well has it been received or accepted, and why?

 

2. What is driving the need for this transformational change? (300-500 words)

 

Why is this considered a transformational change?

Why can the firm not just keep doing what it has been doing?

What is management’s role in the transformational change?

Are there easier alternatives to accomplish the goal of remaining competitive?

3. Theories of Change Management (200-400 words)

 

Discuss at least 3 theories of change management (eg. Kotter, Lewin, Nadler, action research, and appreciative inquiry).

 

Include specific pros and cons of each.

 

What is the best way to ensure the implementation of an organizational change?

 

4. Communication Plan (100-150 words):

 

What stakeholders require communication?

What will be communicated to them?

Who will send the communication?

What communication medium will be used?

5. Implementation Plan (400-600 words)

 

Include the following context in the implementation plan:

 

A. Major implementation steps

B. Key criteria for success

C. Summary of Weeks 1-5

D. Rollout: Any risk considerations to the implementation

What are the major sources of indoor air pollution in your home or workplace? What can you do to mitigate the effects of these pollution sources?

 

Your response should be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations

Question 12

Choose one of the air pollution disasters described in Chapter 1, and discuss the incident in detail. What were the causes and consequences of the disaster? Your response should contain additional information not covered in the textbook. Use the CSU Online Library to find at least one reference for this response.

 

Your response should be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. You must also use one outside source. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

Course Textbook

Phalen, R. F., & Phalen, R. N. (2013). Introduction to air pollution science: A public health perspective. Burlington, MA:

Need Definition

From the end of Chapter 6, complete the following questions out of the section titled “Questions for Review and Discussion.” Each question should be thoroughly answered using support from the text, examples, and other scholarly sources.

• Describe the differences between needs identification and defining commercial equivalents and discuss why it is preferable to separate into two stages.
• Interpret the value to the organization when early supplier involvement (ESI) is implemented effectively.
• Examine the advantages and disadvantages of specifying by performance.
• Describe how a supply professional understands strategic requirements.

Submit to your instructor your two-to-three page Word document (not including the title and reference pages). Your paper should be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the approved APA style guide, and should cite at least two scholarly sources in addition to the textbook

2015 fall portion of: Psychology 228-001 11:00 am-12:15 pm, Tuesday/Thursday part 1/take home exam for final examination due Tuesday December 15 at 11:55-am in E-108, our regular classroom
Write clear and complete sentences. No bullet points. Do not cheat by copying other’s answers. That would be academic dishonesty charges. Type in 14 font, double spaced.

Chapter 18
1. You Tube: Dancing Senior Citizens 4 minutes plus
Is this dancing experience an example of cognitive pragmatics or cognitive mechanics? Explain your response.
What type (s) of attention were necessary for these individuals to use so as to master the dance moves?
Explain which memory systems were being used/employed when teaching these participants the music, movements, performance preparation, and cognitive control. Offer an example to go with each of your memory system selections or cognitive control.
How did this experience enhance cognitive functioning and skills? Could you see yourself participating in a dance performance such as this…to different music of course… dance when you are 89? Why or why not?
How would this type of activity help an individual who is older and suffering from depression?
Chapter 19
Which socioemotional theory of aging does this video reflect?
20 points

⦁ Attached Files:
⦁  BackgroundInformationJohnCityMedicalGroup.doc (32 KB)
Assignment: Johnson City Case
Instructions
Read the Background Information for this Case, which is attached as a Word document. It presents a set of problem facing the Johnson City Medical Group.
Use the following guidelines to create a Strategic Marketing Plan that addresses each of the requirements. Your final research paper should be 5-7 pages.
Per the Course Outline, make sure all papers are APA compliant with the sections required below.

Required Sections Guidelines
Executive Summary ⦁ One to two paragraphs in length
⦁ On cover page of the report
⦁ Briefly identify the major problems facing the manager/key person
⦁ Summarize the recommended plan of action and include a brief justification of the recommended plan
Statement of the Problem ⦁ State the problems facing the manager/key person
⦁ Identify and link the symptoms and root causes of the problems
⦁ Differentiate short term from long term problems
⦁ Conclude with the decision facing the manager/key person
Causes of the Problem ⦁ Provide a detailed analysis of the problems identified in the Statement of the Problem
⦁ In the analysis, apply theories and models from the text and/or readings
⦁ Support conclusions and /or assumptions with specific references to the case and/or the readings
Decision Criteria and Alternative Solutions ⦁ Identify criteria against which you evaluate alternative solutions (i.e. time for implementation, tangible costs, acceptability to management)
⦁ Include two or three possible alternative solutions
⦁ Evaluate the pros and cons of each alternative against the criteria listed
⦁ Suggest additional pros/cons if appropriate
Recommended Solution, Implementation and Justification ⦁ Identify who, what, when, and how in your recommended plan of action
⦁ Solution and implementation should address the problems and causes identified in the previous section
⦁ The recommended plan should include a contingency plan(s) to back up the ‘ideal’ course of action
⦁ Using models and theories, identify why you chose the recommended plan of action – why it’s the best and why it would work
External Sourcing 5 external sources (in addition to your textbook) should be referenced to back up your recommendations or to identify issues. This information would be ideally sourced in current journals, magazines and newspapers and should reflect current management thought or practice with respect to the issues identified.
Spelling Grammar and Presentation ⦁ Your case analysis should:
⦁ Include the 5 sections listed in the outline
⦁ Be double spaced and the pages should be numbered
⦁ Have 1inch margins – top bottom left and right
⦁ Use 12 point font size
⦁ Be free of spelling errors
⦁ Use an established referencing system
⦁ Present the executive summary on the first page of the assignment along with your name (s), course section and due date
Click on the “Week Four Assignment – Johnson City Case Instructions” link above to submit your assignment.