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Avoiding expensive IRA mistakes
Chicago Sun-Times
Instead they are the taxes and penalties that arise when you make mistakes as a result of your own ignorance — or the wrong advice you might receive at your financial institution. It's up to you to know the rules. Most people are aware that if you ...
Roth IRA not for everybodyBoston.com
Can I Avoid Paying Taxes on a Roth Conversion?Fox Business
Should I stop funding my Roth?CNNMoney (blog)

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Daily Mail
The Tax Reform Britain Needs
Wall Street Journal
By MATTHEW SINCLAIR From "Red" Ken Livingstone, the Labour Party candidate for mayor of London, to Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican nominee for president of the United States, politicians have been getting in trouble over their taxes.
Cut tax to flat 30% rate, axe stamp duty and ditch national insurance: An ...Daily Mail
Call for single 30% income tax rateThe Press Association
Extend austerity measures to allow for major tax cuts, chancellor toldThe Guardian
Telegraph.co.uk -Spectator.co.uk
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Reactions to tax bills in Boone County, Winnebago County
Rockford Register Star
By Alex Gary Annual property tax bills were mailed May 11 in Winnebago County and May 9 in Boone County. That meant a busy Monday for workers in the Winnebago and Boone County treasurer offices because the vast majority of property owners opened the ...

Clinical Notes: Big 'Soda' Tax Needed to Change Habits
MedPage Today
By John Gever, Senior Editor, MedPage Today Taxes on unhealthy foods need to be set at 20% or more to improve major health outcomes such as obesity, researchers said. Also this week: a recent spike in fatal falls may be illusory.

Gov. Snyder proposes mining severance tax
Sault Ste. Marie Evening News
Rick Snyder's administration is proposing a severance tax for nonferrous mining operations to replace other taxes they would pay under existing law, an official said Friday. Under the plan, a 3 percent tax would be levied on the value of minerals ...

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Forbes
How Mark Zuckerberg's Taxes Change Now That He's Married
Forbes
The water cooler debates about taxing Mark Zuckerberg have been vitriolic for weeks now–not to mention the endless likes and dislikes over the expatriation of one-time co-founder Eduardo Saverin. It's only natural that we'll all worry over this one too ...

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Modesto Bee
Branstad pushes for higher gas tax
Indianapolis Star
Terry Branstad said Friday he'll push in next year's legislative session to raise the gas tax and possibly vehicle registration fees to finance road and bridge maintenance. “I think next year is the year to do it,” Branstad said during an interview on ...
Bleam, Shaw offer thoughts on property tax reformFort Dodge Messenger
What Happened to the Promise of Reduced Property Taxes?Patch.com

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San Francisco Examiner
Jerry Brown's tax proposal is just extortion
San Francisco Examiner
Jerry Brown's latest budget is full of trigger cuts to education that will occur if his income and sales tax initiative doesn't pass in November. By basically saying, “Approve my taxes or I'll take money away from the children,” he's creating a ...
Even with tax, Calif. could face chronic deficitsBoston.com
Analysis: Gov. Brown stymied by same budget dysfunction that plagued predecessorsNorth County Times
Viewpoints: Jobs, not higher taxes, will fix budget deficitSacramento Bee
Daily Caller -Patch.com
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Sales tax upturn bright spot for Portage
Ravenna Record Courier
By MIKE SEVER | STAFF WRITER Rising sales tax revenues are one of the few highlights in Portage County's budget. While income from investments and other sources is still flat, sales tax revenues are on track to hit or even surpass last year's $16 ...

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Daily Mail
Boehner: New legislation punishing tax-dodgers for renouncing citizenship ...
The Hill (blog)
By Alicia M. Cohn - 05/20/12 10:54 AM ET House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Sunday supported legislation to punish individuals who renounced their citizenship in order to avoid paying US taxes, but said such measures were already law.
John Boehner backs law forcing Eduardo Saverin to pay U.S. taxDaily Mail
Facebook's Eduardo Saverin 'friends' Singapore to evade U.S. taxesnewjerseynewsroom.com
Boehner on Facebook co-founder citizenship renouncement to dodge taxes ...Daily Caller
Washington Times (blog)
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NOLA.com
Tax purity guru gives Gov. Bobby Jindal a nod: Stephanie Grace
NOLA.com
By Stephanie Grace, The Times-Picayune Some people say Grover Norquist, president of the notoriously hard-line Americans for Tax Reform, may be the most influential person in the Republican Party. Granted, those people tend to be Democrats, ...

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CBS Local
Roth IRA not for everybody
Boston.com
Investors are allowed to convert a traditional IRA into a Roth, so long as they pay taxes - at current rates - on the balance being converted. That upfront tax payment is the catch. Even if you are willing to absorb a big tax right away, ...
Can I Avoid Paying Taxes on a Roth Conversion?Fox Business
Should I stop funding my Roth?CNNMoney (blog)

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The Star-Ledger - NJ.com (blog)
Commuter tax is a way for NJ to pay fair share
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com (blog)
Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer defends the idea of raising a commuter tax on New Jersey residents who. By Scott M. Stringer New Jersey residents, like millions more from Connecticut, the Hudson Valley and Long Island, are increasingly ...

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Tarkanian's past property tax troubles dog race for Congress
Las Vegas Review - Journal
During that decade of go-go real estate speculation, Tarkanian and the companies he was associated with didn't always pay property taxes on time, becoming delinquent for one to five years and forcing Clark County authorities to hold at least a dozen ...

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Council tax battle looming
Worcester Telegram
The adage “better late than never” is certainly apropos when it comes to setting Worcester's fiscal 2012 tax rates. With just six weeks left to this fiscal year, the City Council will finally get around to setting this year's residential and ...

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Tax 'reform' popular with hemmed-in politicians
Staunton News Leader
In the case of our governor and legislators, you can tell because they stop talking about their pledge to never, ever, double-dog-never raise taxes and begin instead talking about "tax reform." Reform, they'll be quick to say, isn't the same as one of ...

Air India piles up Rs 454cr service tax dues
Times of India
NEW DELHI: Five months after its accounts were frozen for non-payment of taxes and duties, crisis-ridden Air India has piled up about Rs 454 crore of dues but has promised to clear it as soon as it gets capital infusion from the government.

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Telegraph.co.uk
On taxes, it's Romney who flip-flopped to get votes
The Advocate
But what about taxes? According to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, government receipts as a share of gross domestic product rose from 17.5 percent in 1992, the year Clinton was elected, to 20.6 percent in 2000, his last full year in office.
Mitt's ad: Keystone, taxes, ObamacarePolitico (blog)
The missing issue in the presidential campaignWashington Post

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Kansas.com
Must veto tax bill
Kansas.com
Animosity and dysfunction at the Legislature led to both chambers' passage of a tax-reform bill that makes no fiscal sense whatsoever. Now, for the love of Kansas, Gov. Sam Brownback must veto it. Admittedly, that's unlikely, given his Friday statement ...
Kan. Lawmakers Unable To Find Smaller Tax Cut PlanWIBW
Compromise tax plan still eludes Kansas lawmakersKansas City Star
Taxes, budget & redistricting tie legislature in knotsKWCH
Hutchinson News -Boston.com
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Kansas.com
Business raids cost Kansas City millions in taxes
Kansas.com
Amid ramped-up competition nationwide for “job creation,” Missouri and Kansas have committed more than $750 million of tax incentives and bonds in the past five years for nearly 200 businesses to locate or expand in the Kansas City area, according to ...
Kansas City mayor scales back plan to raise property taxesKansas City Star

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