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Health Costs to Rise 8.5% in 2012
May 20th, 2011 Pent-up demand for health services and consolidation among doctors and hospitals are among the factors exerting upward pressure on costs. U.S. employers can expect to see health-care costs rise by 8.5% in 2012, up a tick from this year’s 8% climb, according to a new report from PricewaterhouseCoopers. The firm says that […]
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IRS To Whistleblowers: “Thanks, But We’re Withholding!”
May 19th, 2011 There’s been lots of press lately about how the IRS is paying for information. In fact, the entire Swiss banking industry was literally brought to its knees because of a whistleblower. OK, he went to jail, but he still expects to receive a nice chunk of change for all the tax dollars […]
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Tax Break for Self-Employed Likely to Vanish
May 18th, 2011 The Small Business Jobs Act nixed the tax that self-employed workers pay on health insurance for 2010. Small biz advocates doubt Congress will extend it. Paula Fleming, a freelance copy editor in Minneapolis, spends $3,600 a year on bare-bones health insurance for herself and her husband. For the 2010 tax year, for […]
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Geithner says overhaul of tax code must wait
May 17th, 2011 A push to overhaul the U.S. corporate tax code will take a back seat to negotiations on the deficit and debt ceiling over the next two months, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Tuesday. Geithner said the Obama administration hopes to take up the issue of tax simplification before the presidential election […]
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3 Possible Surprises From Bernanke and the Fed
May 16th, 2011 Mission accomplished? That’s the tacit message the Federal Reserve and its chairman, Ben Bernanke, have been sending, now that the economy is recovering and companies are starting to hire again. As every Fed-watcher knows, the Fed plans to end its second bond-buying, or “quantitative easing,” program at the end of June, which […]
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