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    The film Double Indemnity (1944) opens up at night with Walter Niff (Fred MacMurray) an insurance salesman in 1938 is dictating a confession of murder. Told in flashbacks we see him meet an attractive married woman, Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck), Niff is there to update their insurance policy, but instead plot together to kill her husband and swindle the insurance claim for $100,000 by evoking a double indemnity clause. Orchestrated by Niff who considers this a challenge to beat the system

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    Question Compare and contrast the taxation system between Australia and Bangladesh and discuss which system is more effective. The essay should also focus on the effectiveness of double taxation treaties of these two jurisdictions. [Introduction] The authority to collect tax is differ from one country to another and their jurisdictions and form of function are also distinguishable. In Australia, the duty to collect revenue lays to the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) along with other responsibility

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