July 16, 2010
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Middle-Class Tax Cut Extensions Expected to Stay on Hold Until Fall
Congressional consideration of an extension of $3 trillion in expiring tax cuts is likely to be put off until after the August recess, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters July 12. President Obama has called on Congress to extend all of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts for households earning less than $200,000 per […]
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Bernanke: $40B in small biz loans disappears
CNNMoney.com (NEW YORK) — In the last two years, $40 billion worth of loans to small businesses have evaporated, and correcting the problem should be “front and center among our current policy challenges,” Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, said in a speech Monday. Loans to small businesses dropped from more than $710 billion […]
Read more- July 14, 2010
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Academic Study: eBay Sellers Shirk Sales Tax Law
Economists’ findings come as states and Congress look for new ways to collect tax on Internet sales. Sales tax collection compliance among eBay sellers is “alarmingly low,” says a new academic study published as states look for ammunition to bolster tax-collection laws. When Georgia State University Economics Professor James Alm and Mikhail I. Melnik, an […]
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Treasury links 4.5 million new hires to tax credits
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. businesses eligible for a new employment tax credit hired 4.5 million new employees from February to May, the Treasury Department said on Monday — but it declined to draw a cause-and-effect conclusion. “I would say that the jury is completely out on the number of jobs that will be added on […]
Read more- July 12, 2010
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Where Taxes Are Up, Services Down
In California, tuition at state universities has soared, income taxes have gone up, and the governor wants to kill a noted work-to-welfare program. Arizona has raised its sales tax, slashed funding for state parks, and considered eliminating health care for more than 300,000 needy people. New Jersey has cut nearly $1 billion in school funding […]
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