However, a minority of states impose the income tax at a flat rate on all taxpayers or they don’t even charge the tax at all. Flat tax rates Just ten states have a flat tax rate on incomes. These include Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, ...
Also, NBC-owned KXAS-TV Dallas won a Peabody Award for “Big Buses, Bigger Problems: Taxpayers Taken for a Ride.” KXAS exposed questionable real estate deals by the Dallas County Schools involving a school bus camera-system investment. The Texas government subsequently took action to address th...
this might work. There are, of course, other solutions to the problem: a guarantee by the German or French government or by the IMF or the EFSF or any other credible institution that the bonds will be repaid and the interest rates will adjust to a level that makes those governments...
Think of the fund like a tax-free pot that holds charitable donations, says Richard Mills, an estate planning attorney at Smith Haughey Rice and Roegge, a law firm in Michigan. Would-be donors should know that once the fund has been created, the money can’t be taken back. When the fu...
He urges taxpayers to set up direct deposit to receive refunds. He cites the case of 38-year-old Benjamin Thomas of Richmond, TX, and 33-year-old Whitley Rachelle Carter of Houston, recently convicted of stealing a Houston couple's nearly $3 million dollar paper check tax refund ...
This is a true bipartisan issue. Reducing these unfair payment discrepancies is common sense. Congress has an opportunity–and an obligation–to save American patients and taxpayers money by advancing site-neutral payment reform. For the sake of my patients, I hope they’ll seize...
According to the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, eligible New York taxpayers will receive a one-time-check worth approximately $250. The best part is that you don't have to fill out forms, make calls or anything. The State will automatically send you the amount owed to...
For many years, my family made the long drive to northern Michigan for Thanksgiving. My stepmom’s next door neighbor, who spent Thanksgivings in Ohio, would let us stay at her house. My stepmom and I used both kitchens to cook up enough dishes to cover a large table while my boys...
Michigan boosters were furious because Lloyd Carr was only 122-40, and they demanded his head. He's out, and since then Michigan has gone 8-16. How long until Notre Dame wishes Weis were back and the Fighting Irish were, like this season, taking highly ranked teams down to the wire ...
During the decade covered in the charges, Stillo was assigned to the southwest suburban criminal courts and misdemeanor court at 13th Street and Michigan Avenue in addition to the Maywood branch. He retired from the criminal division in Maywood in 1988. ”Judge Stillo has served for 24 years ...