English-speaker, someone from a country that speaks english i.e. Britain, US; originating from term (Anglo) referring to early northern european peoples. He is an anglophone.
The Council On State Taxation (COST) is the premier state tax organization representing taxpayers. COST is a nonprofit trade association consisting of more than 600 multistate corporations engaged in interstate and international business. COST's objective is to preserve and promote equitable and nondiscriminatory state and local taxation of multijurisdictional business entities.
The total cost of choosing one action over another. The economic cost includes the accounting cost, or actual funds spent carrying out the action, and the opportunity cost, or the amount of money that could have been made by using funds and other resources dedicated to the action on some other objective.