Quick Picks: Mortgage Scams and Tax Theft
Looking for a new job? Mortgage scammers have found a lucrative market in New York City: Prosecutors there tell the New York Times th … more…
A Paper Industry Bailout and Banks’ Bids on Toxic Assets
The Nation has uncovered some tricky finagling by the paper industry: In order to take advantage of a tax credit aimed at reducing de … more…
Putting the Stimulus’ Tax Provisions on the Map
The stimulus bill’s three biggest tax breaks for individuals add up to more than $200 billion and consume the lion’s share of the … more…
Graphic: Putting the Stimulus’s Tax Provisions on the Map
A Mini Mystery in AIG’s Sale of Insurance Subsidiary
Did the bankers involved in selling one of AIG's biggest subsidiaries know about the tax issue that AIG has been keeping from potenti … more…
Quick Picks: Lawmakers Take a Tax Test and Grill Their Bailed-Out Donors
Quick Picks focuses on a select few of the day's stories from "Breaking on the Web."
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Harry Truman was the first president w … more…
The Wrinkle to Geithner’s Tax Troubles
How big a deal is it that Obama's pick for Treasury secretary underpaid his taxes for four consecutive years?
The story about Timot … more…
IRS Ponders Offshore Tax Shelters—and So Do We
The Internal Revenue Service is debating how best to collect potentially billions of dollars in unpaid taxes that wealthy Americans h … more…
Rangel Admits ‘Mistakes,’ Lands on Scandal Watch
With his recent tax woes, Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) has earned a spot on our Scandal Watch. Check out our roundup of all the pol’s e … more…
Rangel to Amend Taxes, GOPers Want Him Removed From Tax Panel Chair
As House Republicans call for Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to remove Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) from his perch atop the House panel t … more…
March 08, 2010
Business Lobbyists Push to Revive Estate Tax They Tried to Kill Jonathan D. Salant, Bloomberg, March 08, 2010
February 08, 2010
Beverage Industry Douses Tax on Soft Drinks Tom Hamburger and Kim Geiger, Los Angeles Times, February 08, 2010
February 05, 2010
Palin cabins not noted in tax assessments AP, February 05, 2010
January 29, 2010
U.S. Agrees to Repay Military Veterans in Debt Dispute Ellen E. Schultz, Wall Steet Journal ($), January 29, 2010
January 20, 2010
A Newspaper Asks Why LA Country Clubs Pay Less in Taxes Hector Tobar, Los Angeles Times, January 20, 2010
January 07, 2010
IRS Collected Far Less in Delinquent Taxes Than It First Reported Lynnley Browning, New York Times, January 07, 2010
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