First Data predicts a growth in European pre-paid market.

First Data's research on the pre-paid card market shows significant growth in this sector in Austria, Italy, the UK, and Germany over the next 12 months because of control on spending. Awareness of and interest in pre-paid cards for gift, travel, remittance, general spending, and youth have increased.

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H.R.25: Fair Tax Act of 2009 - U.S. Congress

For the 6th consecutive congressional session, this bill strives to repeal the income tax, employment tax, and estate and gift tax, and to replace them with a national sales tax. It sets forth provisions for the states' collection of revenues and the Treasury's handling of the remittances, setting up two new tax bureaus in the place of the IRS.

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