Personal income tax audits are a fact of life in many states. However, both New York State and New York City are particularly aggressive in pursuing this source of income, focusing mainly on questions of residency and non-resident income allocation. These audits can often be tremendously burdensome, even for those filing correctly

Personal income tax audits are a fact of life in many states. However, both New York State and New York City are particularly aggressive in pursuing this source of income, focusing mainly on questions of residency and non-resident income allocation. These audits can often be tremendously burdensome, even for those filing correctly. In this new edition of the New York Residency and Allocation Audit Handbook, noted tax practitioners Paul Comeau, Tim Noonan and Mark Klein provide an in-depth and practical look at New York's residency and income allocation audit programs. They include detailed, yet easy-to-read, information drawn from the current tax law and from their own experiences. This helpful book guides the reader through both the residency and the non-resident allocation audit process, starting with detailed descriptions of the residency and non-residency allocation "rules of the road" through practical advice on what to do when audited, how the audit will progress and techniques to use to help reduce the risk of an audit and minimize the problems. This publication also details civil penalties and interest, and the risk of criminal prosecution. Finally, the book explores the tax relationships between New York and other states, including a residency tax guide that summarizes the residency rules and requirements of the remaining states.

Ending poverty and stabilizing climate change will be two unprecedented global achievements and two major steps toward sustainable development. But the two objectives cannot be considered in isolation: they need to be jointly tackled through an integrated strategy. This report brings together those two objectives and explores how they can more easily be achieved if considered together. It examines the potential impact of climate change and climate policies on poverty reduction. It also provides guidance on how to create a “win-win†? situation so that climate change policies contribute to poverty reduction and poverty-reduction policies contribute to climate change mitigation and resilience building. The key finding of the report is that climate change represents a significant obstacle to the sustained eradication of poverty, but future impacts on poverty are determined by policy choices: rapid, inclusive, and climate-informed development can prevent most short-term impacts whereas immediate pro-poor, emissions-reduction policies can drastically limit long-term ones.

This lively, practical text presents a fresh and comprehensive approach to doing qualitative research. The book offers a unique balance of theory and clear-cut choices for customizing every phase of a qualitative study. A scholarly mix of classic and contemporary studies from multiple disciplines provides compelling, field-based examples of the full range of qualitative approaches. Readers learn about adaptive ways of designing studies, collecting data, analyzing data, and reporting findings. Key aspects of the researcher's craft are addressed, such as fieldwork options, the five phases of data analysis (with and without using computer-based software), and how to incorporate the researcher's “declarative” and “reflective” selves into a final report. Ideal for graduate-level courses, the text includes:* Discussions of ethnography, grounded theory, phenomenology, feminist research, and other approaches.* Instructions for creating a study bank to get a new study started.* End-of-chapter exercises and a semester-long, field-based project.* Quick study boxes, research vignettes, sample studies, and a glossary.* Previews for sections within chapters, and chapter recaps.* Discussion of the place of qualitative research among other social science methods, including mixed methods research.