Five goals form Obama's 2014 State on Union: Yay or nay?
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama used his last State of the Union to declare 2014 a “Year of Action,” and he can claim credit for accomplishing several of the goals he laid out. The smaller...
View ArticleAARP Tax-Aide seeks Lubbock volunteers
AARP Tax-Aide seeks Lubbock volunteers AARP Tax-Aide, the nation’s largest free volunteer-run tax preparation service, is seeking volunteers to help Lubbock taxpayers who need assistance preparing and...
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Volunteers needed to help prepare taxes AARP Tax-Aide, the nation’s largest free volunteer-run tax preparation service, is seeking volunteers to help Lubbock taxpayers who need assistance preparing and...
View ArticleObama's tax cuts target parents, families with two incomes
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama calls his tax and spending plan "middle-class economics," but most middle-income families would see little change in their tax bills.read more
View ArticleObama's tax cuts target parents, families with two incomes
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama calls his tax and spending plan “middle-class economics,” but most middle-income families would see little change in their tax bills.Obama is proposing a total of...
View ArticleObama: Scaling back college savings benefits wasn't worth it
INDIANAPOLIS — President Barack Obama says he dropped a plan to scale back tax benefits for college savings accounts because it wasn't worth it.He says he looked at reducing the tax savings because the...
View ArticleGOP taxonomy: The flat taxers and the fair taxers
During his last run for president, Rick Perry often pulled a postcard out of his jacket pocket.read more
View ArticleRepublicans say Obama giving immigrants 'amnesty bonuses'
WASHINGTON — Millions of immigrants benefiting from President Barack Obama's executive actions could get a windfall from the IRS, a reversal of fortune after years of paying taxes to help fund...
View ArticleRepublicans say Obama giving immigrants 'amnesty bonues'
WASHINGTON — Millions of immigrants benefiting from President Barack Obama’s executive actions could get a windfall from the IRS, a reversal of fortune after years of paying taxes to help fund...
View ArticleNew woes for HealthCare.gov: Wrong tax info sent out
WASHINGTON — In a new setback for the health care law and the people it’s supposed to help, the government said Friday it made a tax-reporting error that’s fouling up the filings of nearly a million...
View ArticleOther Views: When one penalty is enough
When one penalty is enoughMillions of Americans may be in for a shock when they file tax returns and learn they have to pay a fine for failing to enroll in health insurance in 2014 and an even bigger...
View ArticleAP-GfK Poll: Most back Obama plan to raise investment taxes
WASHINGTON — The rich aren’t taxed enough and the middle class is taxed too much. As for your taxes, you probably think they’re too high as well.Those are the results of an Associated Press-GfK poll...
View ArticleChances of getting audited by IRS lowest in decade
WASHINGTON — Budget cuts forced the IRS to reduce the number of tax audits last year to the lowest level in a decade, IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said Tuesday. And the number of audits could be even...
View ArticleRangel: Taxes in Texas: Situation not as good as some say
AUSTIN — Barring something unforeseen, property and small business owners in Texas should expect lower tax bills next year.How much of a tax cut many Texans will get is unclear because it’ll be mid-May...
View ArticleProposal to hike ag land taxes spawns backlash from farmers
TOPEKA, Kan. — A suburban lawmaker’s proposal that would dramatically increase property taxes on Kansas agricultural land has spawned strong rural backlash and nagging fears that pieces of it will pop...
View ArticleHightower: Deplorable tax laws make little people subdize corporate crime
“Do the crime, do the time,” the old saying goes. Unless, of course, the criminals are corporate executives. In those cases, the culprits are practically always given a “Get out of jail free” card.read...
View ArticleBad records ... Social Security data says 6.5 million Americans are 112 or...
WASHINGTON — Americans are getting older, but not this old: Social Security records show that 6.5 million people in the U.S. have reached the ripe old age of 112.In reality, only few could possibly be...
View ArticleSay what? Social Security data says 6.5M in US reach age 112
WASHINGTON — Americans are getting older, but not this old: Social Security records show that 6.5 million people in the U.S. have reached the ripe old age of 112.In reality, only few could possibly be...
View ArticleNorth Texas man gets 3 years in defrauding IRS of more than $1M
DALLAS (AP) — A North Texas man has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for defrauding the IRS of more than $1 million by submitting false income tax returns.Thirty-two-year-old Michael...
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