Small-business advisers and advocates are bracing for a wave of questions as the city’s Business Income & Receipts Tax (BIRT), Philadelphia’s municipal tax that hits both sales and profits, expands to ...

Newly disclosed documents show how the former BBC director general Lord Birt sought to manoeuvre around a ban on him promoting his personal views on broadcasting while he was working as the prime ...

Philadelphians have long complained over the city’s wage tax — an almost 4% deduction from their paychecks for residents, or about 3.5% for non-residents. About a third of states allow for this kind ...

BIRT is a top-level, open-source, Eclipse project that provides business intelligence and reporting tools. Currently, BIRT is best known as a report-creation tool that supports multiple data sources ...

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When Elizabeth Birt’s 2-year-old son, Matthew, was diagnosed with autism in 1996, she focused on the medical profession she believed was not properly dealing with the disease. She believed childhood ...