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  • September 2008

    • IRS Loosens Deadlines For Taxpayers Pummeled by Ike

      Associated Press  |  Sep 18, 08 3:06 PM CDT

      IRS Loosens Deadlines For Taxpayers Pummeled by Ike

      (AP) - Taxpayers in Texas counties and Louisiana parishes hit by Hurricane Ike will get until Jan. 5 to take care of tax filings and payments due this fall, the Internal Revenue Service said today. The IRS said the deadline extensions apply to 29 Texas counties and 14 Louisiana parishes declared presidential disaster areas. More »

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      Texas  • Louisiana  • Hurricane Ike  • IRS  • Galveston  • Internal Revenue Service  • tax

    • France's 'Picnic Tax' Making Foes Antsy

      Independent (UK)  |  Sep 15, 08 3:51 PM CDT

      France's 'Picnic Tax' Making Foes Antsy

      (Newser) - A picnic tax? “We are doing it,” France’s environment minister said today, apparently unabashed at such a villainous plan. Actually, the levy isn’t as dastardly as it sounds—it’s actually a tax on the plastic and paper plates and utensils commonly used in picnics, the Independent reports. The goal is to reduce the nearly 800 pounds of trash each Frenchman generates annually. More »

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      France  • environment  • tax  • picnic

  • July 2008
  • June 2008

    • Senate Moves to Privatize Anemic Restaurants

      Washington Post  |  Jun 9, 08 8:03 AM CDT

      Senate Moves to Privatize Anemic Restaurants

      (Newser) - The Senate has voted to privatize its restaurants after decades of losing money, the Washington Post reports. The decision comes after much wrangling among Democrats, split between the $250,000 taxpayer subsidy that keeps the restaurants afloat and the lower wages workers would receive. “You cannot stand on the Senate floor and condemn the privatization of workers, and then turn around and privatize the workers here in the Senate," said one Dem. More »

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      Congress  • Senate  • restaurant  • privatization  • Dianne Feinstein  • tax  • subsidies

  • April 2008

    • Top 10 Celebrity Tax Troubles

      Access Hollywood  |  Apr 15, 08 5:39 PM CDT

      Top 10 Celebrity Tax Troubles

      (Newser) - Tax day can be a hassle, but at least most of us don't have to worry about the glare of the media spotlight, too. Access Hollywood rounds up the top 10 celebrity tax controversies. Damon Dash: New York State billed the music mogul $2 million. Joe Francis: Girls Gone Wild guru indicted for tax evasion. Willie Nelson: Nicked for $16.7 million by the IRS. Wesley Snipes: Could face jail time over shaky books, failure to file. Marc Anthony: Had to pay $2.5 million in back taxes. More »

    • Gas-Guzzlers Will Cost Londoners $50 a Day

      Los Angeles Times  |  Apr 3, 08 11:39 AM CDT

      Gas-Guzzlers Will Cost Londoners $50 a Day

      (Newser) - In a move to make drivers of gas-guzzlers “pay for the environmental damage they cause,” London’s mayor is imposing a CO2 charge: beginning in October, every private vehicle driven in the central city that doesn’t meet tough emissions standards will cost its owners $50 a day, the Los Angeles Times reports. The new charge comes on top of the existing $16 congestion charge. More »

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      Great Britain  • London  • carbon emissions  • gas  • SUV  • Ken Livingstone  • tax

  • February 2008

    • Homes Raided Nationwide in German Tax Fraud Probe

      Times (UK)  |  Feb 19, 08 8:23 AM CST

      Homes Raided Nationwide in German Tax Fraud Probe

      (Newser) - The fallout from Germany's enormous tax evasion scandal continued yesterday as police began a nationwide raid of the homes and offices of over a hundred people. More than 1,000 rich Germans are suspected of cheating the German treasury out of $5 billion by transferring huge sums to banks and dummy foundations in the tax haven of Liechtenstein. So far the biggest casualty of the affair has been the CEO of Deutsche Post, Europe's largest mail service and the owner of shipping company DHL. More »

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      Germany  • tax evasion  • tax fraud  • tax  • police raids  • tax dodge  • Liechtenstein  • Deutsche Post

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