As they prepare to meet Sept. 12-14 in Las Vegas, Toyota dealers say there is room in their lineup for a compact pickup that draws on the brand’s small pickup heritage and would be a Ford Maverick fighter.
To address communication challenges and achieve growth targets, CEO Joshua Johnson deployed author Gino Wickman’s concept of an Entrepreneurial Operating System.
Asbury Automotive Group is primed to become the nation’s fourth-largest dealership group with its pending purchase of Jim Koons Automotive Cos. Upon closure, the deal would be one of the largest in auto retail history.
One day, a restaurant at John Rivers’ new educational farm in Orlando’s Packing District neighborhood could serve fish raised there with vegetables grown on the property fertilized by the same fish’s waste.
That intense farm-to-table dining experience is still a while off at the 18-acre 4Roots farm under construction off John Young Parkway, but the greenhouse where hundreds of tilapia will be raised in tanks and vegetables will grow is reaching completion.
A classroom building has also sprouted up. It will be topped with solar panels producing more energy than the building will use, all while rainwater will be collected in cisterns for irrigation and flushing toilets.
“The entire farm is a closed loop system,” said Rivers, who is founder of the 4 Rivers Smokehouse restaurant chain. “Everything from energy collection, water collection, fertilization, growth of food, growth of protein, and it’s all used and it goes in one big circle around. So there’s zero waste.”
The first seeds for lettuce, tomatoes, zucchini, broccoli, and other vegetables would be planted in November, if everything works out with power and irrigation installation and there are no other holdups, inside the roughly 15,000-square-foot greenhouse, said head farmer Josh Taylor.
By FATIMA HUSSEIN (Associated Press)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS announced on Friday it is launching an effort to aggressively pursue 1,600 millionaires and 75 large business partnerships that owe hundreds of millions of dollars in past due taxes.
IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel said that with a boost in federal funding and the help of artificial intelligence tools, the agency has new means of targeting wealthy people who have “cut corners” on their taxes.
“If you pay your taxes on time it should be particularly frustrating when you see that wealthy filers are not,” Werfel told reporters in a call previewing the announcement. He said 1,600 millionaires who owe at least $250,000 each in back taxes and 75 large business partnerships that have assets of roughly $10 billion on average are targeted for the new “compliance efforts.”
Werfel said a massive hiring effort and AI research tools developed by IRS employees and contractors are playing a big role in identifying wealthy tax dodgers. The agency is making an effort to showcase positive results from its burst of new funding under President Joe Biden’s Democratic administration as Republicans in Congress look to claw back some of that money.