The sleaziest thing a tax preparer can do is sell you a “fast refund”, “two or three day refund”, “instant refund”, “EZ-Money or “Rapid Refund”. They are selling you a BANK LOAN at an extraordinary percentage rate PLUS the fee for preparation. Witness the poor person who had a $50.00 refund and was [...]
Tax Rebate Exclusions Draw Fire
In its effort to keep tax rebate money out of the hands of illegal aliens, Congress ended up denying the rebates to hundreds of thousands of legal immigrants, U.S. military personnel and plain-old honest taxpaying U.S. citizens.
Under the tax rebate rules established by the IRS under Economic Stimulus Act, if [...]
US President George W Bush has insisted the US is not in recession but says that he remains concerned about the economy’s performance.
In his State of the Union address, President George W Bush made reviving the US economy the centrepiece of his last year in office. But can he do enough to avoid blame for [...]
OpEd: Home Sick and watching C-Span … more people should watch this circus.
The great shift in the economy has bound the hands of the middle class the USA used to be so proud of.
Secretary of Treasury Paulson states that extending unemployment benefits would discourage seeking employment. He also supports cutting benefits to Medicare, highway [...]
Reid Tries to Pressure G.O.P. for $159 Billion Stimulus Bill
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats tried to pressure Republicans on Monday to vote for a $159 billion economic stimulus plan, including $1 billion in additional subsidies for home energy, instead of a cheaper, more streamlined package approved by the House last week.
The [...]
Hearing all the news about the Economic Stimulus package and the likelihood of many Taxpayers and Non-taxpayers receiving $300 to $600, maybe more. My dreams collide with one another, about how to handle that money. I am so torn. Cats must be neutered, bills must be paid, and I really want a [...]
Bush warns Congress not to load the (Economic Stimulus) deal with spending projects or delay sending it to his desk for a signature. Although it may not be everything Republicans want, he said, the package of payments to workers and incentives for business investment puts money in the hands of everyday Americans and does [...]
Washington Post Op Ed
It will take some heroics by the Internal Revenue Service to get any tax rebate checks out by June — assuming a bill passes the Senate soon. Several Senate Democrats have said they plan to tinker with the Bush-Pelosi deal, trying to add not only unemployment insurance and food stamps but [...]
The devil is in the details
Once a rebate is decided on, the IRS could start mailing out checks by the end of June since the agency is now in the middle of the 2007 tax-filing season, said Jason Furman, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. The IRS, however, [...]
Your really have to wonder why anyone who makes public statements can’t seem to get it through their head that they can be checked. It takes about five minutes on the internet to either pull up a speech, document or video and yet this concept seems to elude public figures. For some lying, deception and [...]
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