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NEWS ABOUT: tax dodge

tax dodge stories: 7 news summaries

Nev. Newspaper Defends Commenters' Anonymity

Review-Journal, ACLU fight subpoena for commenters' identities

Jun 16, 09 4:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - A tax-evasion trial has sparked a free-speech controversy at the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The paper has declined to honor a federal subpoena demanding the identities of everyone who commented on an article on the trial. Businessman Robert Kahre faces tax-fraud charges for hiding the real value of sales of gold... More »

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Internet • free speech • ACLU • tax evasion • subpoena • Internal Revenue Service • tax dodge • inappropriate comments • commentary • Las Vegas Review-Journal

Report: US Loses $100B Yearly to Tax Havens

Tax Day release highlight burden tax-dodging firms put on taxpayers

Apr 15, 09 6:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - Corporations stashing their cash in tax havens cost the US—and ordinary taxpayers who shoulder the burden instead—$100 billion every year, the Huffington Post reports. A new report breaks down the loss through "shell companies and sham headquarters" by state, finding that the people of New York are... More »

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taxes • tax evasion • Cayman Islands • tax dodge • tax haven

 Irish Angry at U2's Tax Evasion   

Group criticized as hypocritical in light of history of activism

Mar 3, 09 3:02 PM CST
(Newser) - U2 is under fire for possible tax evasion as the Irish government pushes for a bigger slice of the band’s earnings, the Christian Science Monitor reports. U2 moved its publishing company to Amsterdam in 2006 after a tax bill limited artists’ tax-free earnings to $315,000. With Irish deficits... More »

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music • Bono • U2 • tax evasion • Ireland • tax code • tax dodge • the Edge • financial crisis

 'Language Barrier', 
 Not Tax Evasion: Rangel 

Powerful congressman sorry for screw-up

Sep 11, 08 10:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Rep. Charles Rangel blamed his failure to pay taxes on his rental income from a Caribbean villa to “cultural and language barriers,” reports the New York Times. “Every time I thought I was getting somewhere, they’d start speaking Spanish,” Rangel said of his attempts to... More »

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taxes • tax evasion • Charles Rangel • Dominican Republic • House Ways and Means Committee • tax dodge • Villa • political scandal

New US Tax Law Looks Heartless to Foreign Workers

Would-be tax evaders will pay, but so will wealthy green-card holders

Jul 9, 08 4:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - A new tax law set up to help troops and veterans, offset by taxing wealthy Americans who give up citizenship to beat the IRS, hits some others in the wallet, Portfolio reports. Long-term, legal foreign workers who return home will see unrealized capital gains taxed—potentially damaging the perception of... More »

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veterans • taxes • US troops • green card • US economy • foreign labor • immigrant • tax dodge • Heart Act

Opinion

It's Our Tax Money Going to Helmsley's Dogs

Charitable donation laws subsidize the whims of the rich

Jul 9, 08 8:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Leona Helmsley’s latest post-mortem shocker—the revelation that she earmarked $8 billion of her charitable bequest for dog welfare—is a perfect illustration of the insanity of our charity laws, writes Ray Madoff for the New York Times. Helmsley isn’t just spending her own money; because charitable donations... More »

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charity • Leona Helmsley • Trouble • estate tax • dog • tax dodge • charitable trust

Homes Raided Nationwide in German Tax Fraud Probe

$5B tax dodge crackdown

Feb 19, 08 8:23 AM CST
(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... More »

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

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