Countries are undercutting each other to lure elderly foreigners with money to spend
Tag: Loopholes
Loopholes allow some pensioners in the EU to retire tax-free
Tax-free? I don’t believe it! WHEN the financial crisis hammered Portugal’s economy, hundreds of thousands of its people left, taking advantage of the European Union’s rules on free movement to find work in countries that were hit less hard. Now Portugal is welcoming older people going in the other direction, not for jobs but for […]
The Trump administration keeps blaming ‘loopholes’ in immigration law for its family separation policy — here’s what’s really going on
Associated Press/Pablo Martinez Monsivais The Trump administration keeps falsely blaming its new family separation practice on current immigration law, and “loopholes” it says migrants are exploiting. Yet, as many critics of the Trump administration have pointed out, there is no law requiring migrant children be separated from their parents if they illegally cross the border. […]
A new tool uses legal loopholes to get you cheaper flights by checking prices 17,000 times a day
Lucy Nicholson/Reuters A new service hopes to save users hundreds of dollars on plane tickets by automatically exploiting legal loopholes. Robot legal service DoNotPay attempts to rebook and get partial refunds on flights if their prices drop. It’s free to use, and users get to keep 100% of their savings. A new service is trying […]
Generally, employers can fire white supremacists — but there might be loopholes
Joshua Roberts/Reuters Social media users have taken to outing protesters who over the weekend participated in a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, that quickly turned violent and raised the national consciousness about the rise of the “alt-right” and racism in the U.S. In the aftermath of the “Unite the Right” rally and a counter-protest […]
Loopholes allow New York landlords to boost rents on stabilized apartments
Capture Light/Shutterstock.com (ProPublica) — In October 2015, Scherrie and Langston Donaldson received a cryptic notice from their landlord, labeled “preferential rent credit removal.” At first glance, they weren’t sure what to make of it. “As you know, we have been billing you at a preferential rent for your 2013-2015 lease,” it read. “Unfortunately, at this […]
