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Tax Day reveals a major split in how � Joe Biden � and � Donald Trump � would govern: The presidential candidates have conflicting ideas about how much to reveal about their own finances and the ...
by Associated Press
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on Mon Apr 15, 2024 at 02:34 PM PDT
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It’s no secret that the proliferation of scams targeting elderly Americans has increased dramatically �with the expansive�spread of information technology. Older Americans are particularly ...
by Dartagnan
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on Thu Apr 18, 2024 at 08:49 AM PDT
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The countdown to Tax Day is on! If you live in Arizona, California, Florida, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, Texas, Tennessee, South Dakota, Washington, or Wyoming and, like many of us, have not yet filed your taxes, I have some good...
by Susan Harley
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on Thu Apr 04, 2024 at 12:24 PM PDT
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Hat tip to Tom Sullivan at Digby’s place for posting a video from AOC explaining the new direct filing program at the I.R.S. Tax time is coming - but this year is different, depending on which state you live in. AOC tells you how you can file directly...
by xaxnar
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on Thu Mar 14, 2024 at 09:34 AM PDT
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The 2024 campaign has begun. Joe Biden, despite his accomplishments, is flagging in the polls. We Democrats have 20 Senate seats up for re-election and the Republicans in charge of the House holding the nation hostage over the budget and trying to...
by 40ford
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on Sun Feb 11, 2024 at 07:57 AM PST
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This isn’t much of a diary, but I just wanted to highlight this great NYT opinion piece about filing taxes in the US. It’s yet another story of large, private companies in the US devouring good government for billions in profit, and then spending...
by bstotts
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on Sat Feb 10, 2024 at 08:30 AM PST
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You’ve already seen the ads, or will soon. They promise to make filing taxes a breeze, save you money, and get you your maximum deductions while speeding your refund. Sure, nobody likes the Internal Revenue Service because who likes paying out money...
by xaxnar
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on Tue Feb 06, 2024 at 07:23 AM PST
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Every year, my next door neighbor went down to the local strip mall to have his taxes done, by a professional tax preparer. The company advertised on prime time. He had no reason not to trust them. My neighbor had grown up in the Depression. His mother...
by MeJean
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on Thu Feb 08, 2024 at 05:55 PM PST
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Tax season began Monday and for many people filing � U.S. tax returns � — especially those doing it for their first time — it can be a daunting task that’s often left to the last minute. But ...
by Associated Press
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on Sun Feb 04, 2024 at 02:59 PM PST
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This is a follow-up to my Rec List diary from yesterday. A former IRS consultant was sentenced to five years in prison for leaking former President Donald Trump’s tax returns as well as the filings of thousands of other wealthy people to the news...
by MTmofo
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on Mon Jan 29, 2024 at 04:02 PM PST
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IRS contractor Charles Littlejohn pleaded guilty in October to one count of taking tax return information without authorization. On two separate occasions, Littlejohn provided tax documents belonging to Trump, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk to two news...
by MTmofo
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on Sun Jan 28, 2024 at 04:05 PM PST
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DailyBeast … former federal judge Barbara Jones, the court-appointed special monitor in Donald Trump’s New York business fraud case, just planted a financial bombshell that legal experts say suggests Trump lied knowingly and repeatedly on his federal...
by polecat
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on Sun Jan 28, 2024 at 02:21 PM PST
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The IRS says it has collected an additional $360 million in overdue taxes from delinquent millionaires as the agency's leadership tries to promote the latest work it has done to modernize the agency ...
by Associated Press
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on Sat Jan 13, 2024 at 09:59 AM PST
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The right wingers have pushed for a flat tax off & on for decades, but the devil is always in the details. Here’s a way to steal their thunder while making for a truly fair tax. Here’s the key: The right wingers want to impose a flat tax that doesn’t...
by dlsamson
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on Tue Jan 02, 2024 at 07:49 PM PST
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CNBC has a story here about another Swiss bank paying a $122.9 million dollar fine/restitution to US authorities for hiding US citizen bank accounts. Banque Pictet, the private banking division of the 218-year-old Pictet Group, will pay about $122.9...
by tjlord
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on Mon Dec 04, 2023 at 10:10 AM PST
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I have not spent 1 hour and 58 min on hold waiting to find out why I got a letter from the IRS saying I owed money when my bank shows they cashed my check. All because they held up the new funding for the IRS. So, I thought I’d write this Rant to feel...
by askyron
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on Mon Nov 20, 2023 at 11:26 AM PST
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Nobody knows us better than those who have known us for a while. That wisdom gives Louisiana’s most-read newspaper, The Advocate, a head start in analyzing the fifth-string GOP choice for speaker, Mike Johnson (R-LA) and his early days as House leader....
by TheCriticalMind
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on Sun Nov 12, 2023 at 04:07 PM PST
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I am GIFTING this OpEd from the New York Times. Anyone can click the link and read it. I will also copy and paste parts of the article below. www.nytimes.com/... First my own take. Few if any address the “why” and the “who” of the malevolence of the...
by Solarman55
64 comments
on Fri Nov 03, 2023 at 08:41 AM PDT
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The latest Republican position on sending aid to Israel is that the $14.3 billion the White House is requesting must be offset by cuts somewhere else in the budget.
That's not true, but that's the ...
by Kerry Eleveld
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on Wed Nov 01, 2023 at 01:40 PM PDT
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Voters only gave control of the House of Representatives to the Republican Party by three percent (50.6% to 47.8%) or 54.5 million votes to 51.5 million votes . So, the voters only gave them control of one sixth of the federal government. That resulted...
by Dem
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on Tue Oct 31, 2023 at 01:33 PM PDT
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