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IRS says it's becoming even more kind and gentle to struggling taxpayers
The IRS has been granting more leniency to struggling taxpayers through a program called Fresh Start. Now the agency says it is expanding this effort by offering more flexible terms in its Offer in Compromise program. This is the program where the IRS... -
Identity thieves filing fake returns using data on real taxpayers
Here's another reason to file your tax returns as early as possible: an identity thief might beat you to the money.
Identity thieves are filing fake federal returns using taxpayers' Social Security numbers and claiming tax refunds worth billions of...Tags: Interior Policy, Criminals, Theft, Credit and Debt, Social Security
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The wealthy pay more than their fair share
Your recent editorial on the elections in Europe states that you believe Americans are now ready to embrace tax increases rather than voting for "conservatives and further cuts to government spending" due to the "widening gulf between the haves and have-...Tags: Europe, Small Businesses, Winston Churchill
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State won't renew contract with major foster care provider
Maryland's second-largest foster care provider will lose its contract with the state to place children in homes, a Department of Human Resources spokesman said Wednesday. Any children placed with Contemporary Family Services must be transferred to the...Tags: Health Treatments, Concerts, Family, Employment Opportunities, Music
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Naval manager gets prison time in scrap metal scheme
A civilian employee of the U.S. Navy who for years sold government scrap metal from Naval installations for a personal profit was sentenced in federal court Wednesday to 30 months in prison for the scheme, according to U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein....Tags: National Security Agency, Judges, Punishment, Prisons, U.S. Navy
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Emancipation Day provides tax filing delay
Thanks to a quirk in this year's income tax filing deadline, many Americans are getting a lesson in Civil War history today. The IRS pushed back the filing deadline because April 15 landed on Sunday and today is Emancipation Day, which marks the...
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Slavery, Wars and Interventions, U.S. House of Representatives
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Owe taxes but your bank account is empty?
So the tax deadline is here and you don't have the money to pay the bill.
It's time to act, not panic. You might have more options than you know — courtesy of the Internal Revenue Service.
The agency has been easing up on financially strapped...Tags: Chicago, Illinois, Egypt, Banking, Jackson Hewitt Tax Service Incorporated
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As tax deadline looms, last-minute filers finally buckle down
On deadline day at Liberty Tax Service on Harford Road, a young woman in a green Statue of Liberty costume stood out front waving frantically at passing cars.
But on Tuesday morning, you'd never know a deadline was looming from the relative calm inside...Tags: Harford Road, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Chicago, Illinois, Washington, DC
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Skeptical of Buffett and need for higher taxes
First, I'm an 80-year-old living on Social Security, and I know all the tax loopholes need to be closed ("The Buffett Rule backlash," April 13). But isn't it correct that Warren Buffett owes the IRS a great deal of taxes for a number of years? Let's...Tags: Warren Buffett, Government Health Care
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Delaney's firm discloses IRS audit
A commercial bank headed by Democratic House candidate John Delaney is being audited by the Internal Revenue Service and told investors it could not guarantee it had operated within federal tax requirements, according to filings publicized Thursday by...Tags: Annapolis, Realty, The Washington Post, CapitalSource Inc., Elections
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Indictment: Shop owner hid $1.2 million from IRS
The owner of a Northeast Baltimore liquor store was indicted by a federal grand jury Tuesday on suspicion of making strategic cash deposits totaling more than $1 million in order to avoid paying taxes, prosecutors said. For more than two years, Kwang Sik...Tags: Clarksville, Lawyers, Prosecution, Justice System
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The people's skybox
If there was a shocker in the recent accounting of the spending on food at the governor's and mayor's skyboxes at M&T Bank Stadium, it wasn't that taxpayers are footing the bill for public officials to chow down on beef tenderloin and crabcakes. The...Tags: Public Officials, Jayne Miller, Executive Branch, Baltimore Grand Prix, Government
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