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What if the government tried to give American taxpayers some of their money back, but the taxpayers didn't seem to want it?
Appeals filed on behalf of a husband and wife imprisoned for tax evasion were dismissed by a federal court because the couple did not pay the filing fees.
A convicted tax evader who had holed up in his home for months after walking out of his federal trial arrived Wednesday at a federal prison in Ohio, authorities said.
After months of monitoring a couple convicted of tax evasion, all U.S. marshals needed to get inside their fortress-like home was a little deception.
A couple convicted of tax evasion who threatened violence if authorities approached them were arrested peacefully at their rural Plainfield home after holing up at the fortress-like compound for months, U.S. Marshals said.
A couple convicted of tax evasion were arrested peacefully at their Plainfield home Thursday night after holing up at the fortress-like compound for months, the U.S. Marshals Service said.
Quebec enacted Canada's first carbon tax on energy companies this week, despite fears it could also target industries that use large amounts of petroleum and carbon products.
Arguing it is unfair to continue to pass the cost of the war in Iraq to future generations, three senior House Democrats Tuesday offered a long-shot plan to raise taxes to pay for the $150 billion bill for the war in 2008.
Tribune Co. said Monday it has received a refund of about $344 million in income taxes and interest paid under a 2005 federal tax court ruling in a case it settled with the government.
Congressional Democrats have chosen an unlikely source to pay for the bulk of their proposed $35 billion increase in children's health coverage: people with relatively little money and education.
Dealing with global warming will be painful, says one of the most powerful Democrats in Congress. To back up his claim he is proposing a recipe many people won't like — a 50-cent gasoline tax, a carbon tax and scaling back tax breaks for some home owners.
Tennessee's tax on illegal drugs is "arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable," an appeals court declared in ruling the "crack tax" was unconstitutional because it derives revenue from illegal activities.
A Japanese housewife who made $3.4 million as an amateur foreign exchange trader was convicted Friday of evading taxes from the profits, according to media reports.
There's no need to raise the federal gasoline tax, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Finance Committee says, dimming the hopes of some in his party who want the increase to help pay for nationwide bridge repair.
California regulators voted on Tuesday to raise taxes on "alcopops," flavored alcoholic beverages some say are packaged to appeal to youth and contribute to underage drinking.
A judge threw out charges Monday against 13 former KPMG employees who were accused of participating in a fraud that helped the wealthy escape $2.5 billion in taxes. The ruling essentially guts what the government once called the largest criminal tax case in U.S. history.
House Democrats' promise to permanently protect millions of middle-class families from a mostly unknown tax increase is faltering before it's even unveiled.
The first half of what is billed as the biggest tax cut in Florida's history became law Thursday with Gov. Charlie Crist's signature, but taxpayers may be disappointed that the average homeowner will save less than $200 a year.
To avoid serving prison sentences for tax evasion, Ed Brown and his wife, Elaine, have locked themselves off from the world on their own terms.
Federal authorities have cut phone, power and Internet service at the fortified compound of a couple convicted of tax evasion who have refused to report to prison.
A day after heavily armed officers surrounded his fortified compound, a convicted tax evader said Friday he believes federal agents planned to raid his home before they were discovered by one of his supporters.
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that only the U.S. Tax Court may review refusals by the Internal Revenue Service to reduce interest payments on people who underpay their taxes.
A cash crunch is fast approaching for the government trust fund that pays to build and repair highways and bridges.
...A woman has sued Kmart for allegedly collecting a 7 percent state sales tax on a nontaxable item: a 12-pack of toilet tissue.
This week, congressional Democrats proudly hoisted the white flag of surrender when it came to tax fairness, officially shelving a modest proposal to force billionaire hedge fund managers to pay the same tax rates as the janitors who clean their offices.
The House has approved legislation to shelve an unpopular program for private collection agencies (including a Texas law firm with criminal ties) to collect unpaid taxes. GOP leaders claim it won't pass the Senate and Bush has threatened a veto.
Somehow, it's become the fashion to hate smokers. Now we expect them to solve our economic woes. Where does it end?
his massive Democrat tax hike does indeed define Michigan's future and it ain't pretty. Not only does it steal $1,350,000,000.00 from the pockets of working moms and dads across the state but it takes $1,350,000,000.00 out of the private sector... out of the economy.
The most influential democrat in congress is suggesting a 50 cent tax on gasoline to help fight global warming. Not very many people will be happy about this, and certainly not myself.
The average family hands over 50 per cent more of their annual earnings in tax than they did before Labour came to power a decade ago.
As the expiration date on the 1998 Internet tax ban draws near, pressure is on the Senate to compromise over just how long it will be extended.
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Both key measures of the UK's public finances were further in deficit than expected in August, latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures show. It will be a headache for Chancellor Alistair Darling, still dealing with the Northern Rock crisis.
Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., is considering a major tax hike on the rich to shore up the nation's Social Security system.
I can say with certainty that you are not being taxed by the federal government to access the internet as of this second... But all of that may change in a little over a month. Should the government continue to ban tax on the internet? Or is it time to let it go?
Back in the day, the US had a tax on blank cassettes to thwart music piracy. In Canada, a hotbed of music pirates, they have such a tax on CD-Rs. Does it work? No, but it makes the music industry happy. And isn't that what it's all about?
In 2001, an estate worth $675,000 or less was exempt from the federal estate tax. Amounts over $675,000 were taxed at graduated rates that started at 18 percent, rose to 41 percent at $1 million, and crested at 55 percent above $3 million.
IN the debate over global climate change, there is a yawning gap that needs to be bridged. The gap is not between environmentalists and industrialists, or between Democrats and Republicans. It is between policy wonks and political consultants.
You own a vehicle worth a cool quarter mill, your estate is huge and meticulously planted and worth a few more mill, and since your parents just passed on, you should have to pay through the nose to claim your inheritance. Right? Wrong.
A crack tax? There was one in Tennessee... until now.
The "super-rich" should pay more tax in an effort to reduce child poverty and fight crime, says the general secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC).
In theory, I like the Fair Tax idea. I have to say, I find it completely illogical that many people today who earn up to $50,000 a year, end up paying no Federal taxes at all.
Can anybody tell me the point of the UK being in the EU, or any reasons why it should stay in, or just what it is that makes being in the EU so valuable?
ncome Tax implies that the government partially owns you, as a portion of your labor goes to the state. Learn why the Income tax is unconstitutional.
Progressive income tax discriminates against the rich for being successful. It's basically a tax on success.
Sounds like Putin needs more money to build his military. In July, Gutseriyev accused the Russian government of "unprecedented bullying" after his company Russneft received back tax demands totalling £400 million.
Despite the fact that the UK has opted out of certain EU treaty areas, the UK will still be heavily funding them. This is how the EU wastes our money on non-essential budget items:
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