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Lower transportation costs prompted a 9 percent cut — to 50 cents a mile — for the 2010 mileage deduction rate authorized by the Internal Revenue Service. The national average price for a gallon of unleaded gasoline was $2.63, or about 83 cents a gallon higher than last year.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sued Stanford, two associates and three of his businesses in February, alleging they perpetrated a $7 billion fraud scheme involving the sale of certificates of deposit through Antigua-based Stanford International Bank Ltd.
SPOKANE, Wash.----Vehicles are most families’ second largest household expense, and there are about 30 days left to buy a new vehicle and qualify for federal income tax deductions under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
Q. My 17-year-old son worked as a lifeguard this summer at our local swimming pool. Does he need to file a tax return next April? -- Fran A. It depends on how much he earned on the job and how...
If you moved after filing your 2008 return and never gave the IRS your new address, some of that money could be yours. Claim it easily by phone or Internet.
The Internal Revenue Service is looking for nearly 3,600 Illinois residents owed refund checks worth more than $3.6 million, including 21 in West-Central Illinois.
Kroger Co. here took millions of dollars in deductions through what was revealed to be a bogus tax shelter, federal authorities said.
Nearly $120,000 in unclaimed tax refunds are waiting for 42 taxpayers from Lorain County, according to the Internal Revenue Service. The IRS needs help in locating those individuals who may have moved or had other reasons for not getting their refund checks, according to IRS spokesman Eric Erickson. “It’s not their fault — for whatever reason the [...]
While many a family business tends to resemble fireflies, flickering brightly for a brief moment, then dying away, “Mama’s Income Tax Services” has been passed down, revived, and reinvented and continues to thrive and flourish for second and third generations. The Mama family has a lot of pride in their father, Anthony “Easy” Mama Jr.’s accomplishments (BHS ‘47), yet they are unusual in the ...
That big, fat income-tax refund really means you've given the government an interest-free loan. It's far better to keep the money you earned in the first place.
Every year, million of people pay too much in taxes by taking the standard deduction. Are you one of them? Here's what to do.
Gary Ernest Williams, 59, of Lake County, has been sentenced to eight years in federal prison for four counts of mail fraud and one count of income tax evasion.
A 67-year-old woman who has two prior convictions for insurance fraud and tax evasion in Arizona was sentenced Wednesday to six and a half years in prison for embezzling $12,820 from an Alamogordo couple.
Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums may be able to solve his federal income tax problems when he sells his deceased mother’s home in the city’s upscale Crocker Highlands neighborhood. Dellums and his sister, Theresa Simmons, put the four-bedroom house on the market just after the Express broke the story about the mayor’s IRS debt. The IRS says Dellums and his wife Cynthia Dellums owe at least $239,000 in ...
ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Internal Revenue Service is looking for South Dakota taxpayers who are due to receive a combined $196,595 in the form of 219 federal refund checks that were returned to the IRS by the U.S. Postal Service with mailing address errors.
Immigration agents made headlines during the Bush administration when they rushed into Midwestern meatpacking plants, a New England leather goods factory and Bay Area ethnic restaurants, handcuffing dozens of employees who would later be deported.
