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Cartoon about Microsoft's giant tax gift from Washington State
Jeff sez, "Inspired by Boing Boing post about Microsoft tax dodge, cartoonist RR Anderson takes on Washington's $100 million tax cut and tax amnesty for Microsoft." Broke-ass Washington State Set to...
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IRS sends out two agents to collect $0.04 in back-taxes from car-wash
Two grim IRS agents travelled to Harv's Metro Car Wash in Sacramento to hand him a demand-letter for his taxes owing in arrears: $0.04 worth. Update: To be clear: it was $0.04 in unpaid tax that had...
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Satellite photos catch Greek tax-evaders
As the nation of Greece teeters on the edge of bankruptcy, its tax authorities are taking aim at Greece's notorious tax-evading rich elite. Using satellite photos, the tax authority examined the claim...
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Who benefits from US tax-cut extension? [Chart]
Barry Ritholtz sez, "The NYTimes graphic department has your Sunday morning chart porn regarding the extension of tax cuts. Its an illustration fueled by data from the Tax Policy Center, a nonpartisan...
View ArticleJon Stewart on Fox's response to Warren Buffett's "socialism"
Jon Stewart is in fine form in these clips in which he highlights the absurdity of Fox's headless-chicken impression in the wake of Warren Buffet stating the fact that there's something weird when...
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Marvel Comics to US gov't: mutants are not human (and should not be taxed as...
Radiolab covers the strange saga of Marvel Comics's fight against the US customs authority over whether X-Men dollies were "dolls" or "toys" -- the difference being that dolls (which are defined as...
View Article1942 Donald Duck cartoon funded by the US Treasury exhorts you file your...
Here's a great 19412 Donald Duck toon funded by the Treasury, explaining to war-torn America why they need to all file their taxes to defeat tyranny. Help Donald Duck File His 1941 Federal Tax Return
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Major American firms pay more in CEO compensation than they do in fed tax
26 major American companies paid more to their CEOs than they paid in taxes in 2011, including Citigroup, Abbott Labs, and AT&T. This from a study published by the Institute for Policy Studies...
View ArticlePranksters crash final speech of corporate tax avoidance taxman, posh...
UK fair tax/anti-cuts activists crashed the Key Haven Publications' Practical Tax Planning conference in Oxford, where Dave Hartnett, the outgoing top UK taxation bureaucrat, was giving the final...
View ArticleSanta tax
"Cash-strapped Ukraine on Wednesday reminded entertainers making money by posing as Did Moroz - the local version of Santa Claus - and his helpers to pay income tax." [Reuters]
View ArticleWA grants MSFT $1.5B tax amnesty, resorts to taxing dance-clubs to make up...
Jeff Reifman sez, After granting Microsoft amnesty on its $1.5 billion Nevada tax dodge, state tax collectors are aggressively targeting Seattle dance clubs and night clubs over an obscure...
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Public Resource wants to liberate tax records for US nonprofits - converting...
Rogue archivist Carl Malamud sez, On November 1, Public.Resource.Org released a new service which put 6,461,326 US nonprofit tax returns on the net for bulk download, developers, and search engines to...
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Nebraska state senator's bill would make churches pay property tax
Ernie Chambers, a long-serving, African-American state senator, has proposed a bill that would strike the word "religious" from the list of groups that are property-tax-exempt. Chambers is immensely...
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Hungary's Internet tax arouses mass opposition
The economically precarious country has a remarkably low rate of corporate tax, and makes up the difference with high, regressive consumption taxes, including the one of the highest rates of VAT in...
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Amazon will finally start paying tax in the UK
The company will abandon the pretense that its UK sales are consummated in Luxembourg and that the money floats in a state of taxless grace in the middle of the Irish Sea. The move isn't entirely...
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Rich people don't move when their taxes go up
In Millionaire Migration and the Taxation of the Elite: Evidence from Administrative Data, Stanford sociologist Cristobal Young builds on his substantial research on "millionaire migration," to show...
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Low income US households get $0.08/month in Fed housing subsidy; 0.1%ers get...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onFv48ju9MQ America is in the grips of one of the worst housing crises in its history, with 1 in 3 households spending more than 30% of their income on mortgage or rent...
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Swedish law will let you write off the money you spend fixing things rather...
In Sweden a legislative proposal will let repair shops will charge lower sales-tax, and allow people who repair their appliances and bicycles be to write off their expenditures. (more…)
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Tax Inspectors Without Borders: poor countries send each other ninja tax...
https://youtu.be/N6x_AdyFeqk?t=20m40s This week on the Tax Justice Network's podcast (previously), they profile (at 20:40) the OECD's Tax Inspectors Without Borders, through which poor countries loan...
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Cartoon about Microsoft's giant tax gift from Washington State
Jeff sez, "Inspired by Boing Boing post about Microsoft tax dodge, cartoonist RR Anderson takes on Washington's $100 million tax cut and tax amnesty for Microsoft." Broke-ass Washington State Set to...
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