Nearly a decade after filing false tax returns, a former special agent and criminal investigator for the Internal Revenue Service was sentenced to 51 months in prison, the Justice Department announced.

Alena Aleykina, 45, was convicted in June of obstruction of justice and stealing government money from the tax agency’s tuition assistance program, ( Read more... )

The accommodation for failed asylum seekers cost £6.4m to run last year but only housed 14 families for an average of three nights each.
Total running costs for 2014/15 were estimated at £6,398,869 - or more than £457,000 for each family which passed through its doors.

The building, a former hotel, has nine apartments designed to create a “family- ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago, with no notice, the U.S. government intercepted Mary Grice’s tax refunds from both the IRS and the state of Maryland. Grice had no idea that Uncle Sam had seized her money until some days later, when she got a letter saying that her refund had gone to satisfy an old debt to the government - a very old debt.
When Grice was 4, back in ( Read more... )

В Мэриленде на полностью бесплатный Medicaid подало 82473 человека, а на частные страховки - 3186.
Интересно, на сколько вследствие этого вырастут наши налоги и сколько народу к нам приедет за бесплатной медициной.

The United Nations is considering a new Internet tax targeting the largest Web content providers, including Google, Facebook, Apple, and Netflix, that could cripple their ability to reach users in developing nations.

The European proposal, offered for debate at a December meeting of a U.N. agency called the International Telecommunication Union, ( Read more... )

A 'Rich Guy' Speaks Out Against Higher Taxes


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Этот калькулятор считает, насколько увеличится  федеральный подоходный налог, если демократы не передумают  и отменят с января 2011 бушевское сокращение налогов .

Кто-то, помнится, что-то там такое обещал насчет 250К.

Thousands of jobs have fled in the last few years. A thousand businesses closed in 2008, and 3,000 more last year. One cause was the national recession. But O’Malley also passed the largest tax increase in Maryland history in 2007. He bumped the sales tax from 5 percent to 6 percent and raised the corporate income tax from 7 percent to 8.25 percent ( Read more... )

We will be hosting the DC Tax Day Tea Party, at The Washington Monument, in view of the White House.
As we put together the details of the event, check back here for updates if you are planning to attend. Just so you know, we are planning to have an evening event with speakers, music and lots of rowdy protesters.

Who: FreedomWorks Foundation

What: ( Read more... )

A group of liberals got together Tuesday and proved that they, too, can have a tax rebellion. But theirs is a little bit different: They want to pay more taxes.
"I'm in favor of higher taxes on people like me," declared Eric Schoenberg, who is sitting on an investment banking fortune. He complained about "my absurdly low tax rates."

"We're calling on ( Read more... )