The R&D Tax Credit
Instead of the regular method, a business can use this to claim a credit of 14 percent of the amount by which its qualified research expenses for the year exceed 50% of its average qualified research expenses for the preceding three tax years.
What is the Alternative Simplified Credit?
This is the first legally binding international agreement to comprehensively prohibit nuclear weapons with the ultimate goal being their total elimination.
What is the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)?
This property of wave propagation limits the theoretical resolution of an imaging system.
What is diffraction?
This person is believed to control the Russian paramilitary "Wagner Group"
Who is Yevgeny Prighozin?
The name of the statue on top of the Capitol dome
What is the Statue of Freedom?
Formerly a permanent feature of the Internal Revenue Code, this tax research tax preference was given a 5-year sunset as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
What is the 174 deduction?
The organization charged with administering the Chemical Weapons Convention
What is the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)?
The imaging error introduced by a broadband light source is referred to as this type of aberration.
What is chromatic aberration?
In this family, poison was used against Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny
What is Novichok?
The year did the British set the Capitol on fire.
What is 1814?
The United States has descended to this rank, among its OECD competitors, in terms of federal tax support for research and development.
What is 26th?
The nuclear arms agreement that the United States pulled out of in 2019
What is the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF)?
The 2020 Nobel Laureates in physics were selected for their work on black holes, the existence of which are predicted by this theory of Einstein.
What is general relativity?
This chess move term was used to describe the orchestrated swap in leadership positions between Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev
What is castling?
This founding father argued senators should have lifelong terms
Who was Alexander Hamilton?
For calculating the Regular Research Credit, companies compare their current year eligible expenditures with those from this qualifying base period, if they were around back then.
What is 1984-1988?
The first international agreement banning the use of chemical weapons?
The Strasbourg Agreement (1675-Between France and the Holy Roman Empire and circumscribed the use of poisoned bullets)
Due to the Second Law of Thermodynamics, this physical property will never decrease in a closed system.
What is entropy?
KGB Major Vladimir Putin was stationed in this German city in the 1980s.
What is Dresden?
Where late 19th century senators bathed during the months Congress was in session
What is Six large Italian marble tubs in the basement of the Capitol?
Fellow Jamie Gardner formed an unlikely friendly relationship with this longtime, senior staffer on the Joint Committee for Taxation.
Who is Kashi Way?
The date New Start will expire if not extended.
What is February 5, 2021?
This famous differential equation describes the wave function of a non-relativstic quantum system.
What is Schrodinger's equation?
The St Petersburg Mayor that Vladimir Putin served as Deputy Mayor
Who is Anatoly Sobchak?
The member of Congress whose Capitol office was the former post office on the House side and where then- Representative Abraham Lincoln regularly huddled with colleagues
Who is Majority Whip James Clyburn?