In Florida, back-to-school sales tax holiday includes computers
Back-to-school shoppers will get a chance to save some cash this week when Florida's sales tax holiday kicks off.
Back-to-school shoppers will get a chance to save some cash this week when Florida's sales tax holiday kicks off.
Howard Jarvis, a spiritual father of today's tea party movement, might have smiled to hear that a documentary film is in the works called "Mad as Hell!: Howard Jarvis and the Birth of the Tax Revolt."
In the closing days of the Legislature last year, California Governor Jerry Brown helped forge a compromise on a sweeping overhaul of the workers' compensation insurance system and persuaded Democratic and Republican lawmakers to pass it into law.
After a tradition of some 40 years of subsidizing local taxes, Gov. John Kasich and Republicans in the Ohio House and Senate applied the brakes.
In recent years, the IRS has stressed its commitment to protecting taxpayers from tax-related identity theft. As part of this commitment, the IRS enhanced the Electronic Fraud Detection System (EFDS).
Sales and use tax is one of the three primary areas which legislators use to fund state and local government (the other two major areas are income taxes and property taxes). The concept is relatively simple: if you buy something tangible, you pay a fixed percentage to the local government as a tax.
The Small Business Administration (SBA) is a major partner with FEMA which offers low-interest disaster loans to homeowners, renters and business of all sizes. Small businesses, and most non-profit organizations can apply for working capital loans to cover operating expenses during federally declared disasters.
A jury Friday awarded an Oregon woman $18.6 million after she spent two years unsuccessfully trying to get Equifax Information Services to fix major mistakes on her credit report. The judgement, likely to be appealed, appears to be one of the largest awarded to a consumer in a case against one of the nation’s major […]