BOSTON (AP) -- Business leaders smiled when House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi told retailers this week that he'll be around for a "long, long, long, long" time. DiMasi told them he supports an annual sales tax holiday and eliminating the requirement tha
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -- Former Broward County Sheriff Ken Jenne was sentenced to a year and a day in prison Friday after pleading guilty to federal corruption charges. Jenne, 60, pleaded guilty in September to tax evasion and mail fraud conspir
You probably don't know what your federal tax liability will be for 2007, and Congress certainly isn't helping. Lawmakers have yet to pass a temporary fix to the Alternative Minimum Tax, to prevent 21 million of us from having to pay the so-called we
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A Philadelphia woman is seeking class action status for a lawsuit accusing HR Block, Intuit and other tax software makers of overcharging consumers who pay to file their taxes online. The class, if approved, could number tens of
DENVER (AP) -- Bar owners who say Colorado's smoking ban is pushing them out of business asked a federal appeals court on Thursday to overturn the ban, even though some fear a decision won't come soon enough to save them. A coalition of bars, taverns
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) -- New Jersey Gov. Jon S. Corzine on Thursday said he's willing to risk losing re-election by increasing highway tolls to try to resolve state fiscal woes. The governor continued to refuse to detail how much he wants tolls to
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senators have urged federal agency officials to come up with a way to collect money from Medicaid providers who owe back taxes, even though legal hurdles have hindered collection efforts. "It is long past time to find a way to with
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The federal agency that insures private pension plans for millions of people in the U.S. ran a deficit of $13.1 billion this year, a four-year low and a big improvement from last year. The deficit reported by the Pension Benefit Gu
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Those who dismissed Rep. Ron Paul as a joke in the Republican presidential primary campaign aren't laughing so hard these days. The Texas libertarian's rise in the polls and in fundraising proves that a small but passionate number
WASHINGTON (AP) -- More than $110 million in tax refund checks went uncashed this year, mostly because people did not tell the Internal Revenue Service or the post office when they moved, the IRS said Wednesday. The agency said 115,478 taxpayers did
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Billionaire Warren Buffett told the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday that Congress should keep the estate tax rather than repeal it and help a few rich Americans like him. "I think we need to ... take a little more out of the
Warren Buffett thinks those who use the phrase "death tax" are intellectually dishonest because the phrase in his words is "clever, Orwellian and dead wrong." The billionaire investor has been an outspoken critic of efforts to repeal the estate tax a
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexico's Congress on Monday approved a $234 billion budget for 2008, boosting spending on social programs to help the country's poor, the president said. About $101 billion, or 43 percent of outlays, will go to fund social program
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Senate panel is asking why more than 30,000 Medicaid providers -- doctors and others in the health care field -- owe at least $1 billion in back taxes and still receive federal payments for their services. Some of those identifie
Dear Tax Talk: My daughter will turn 13 on Nov. 1. She has always received money for her birthdays, Christmas, etc. I had invested her money (about $3,600) in a nine-month CD that has now matured. I put the CD in her name and I am the custodian. Wha
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