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Chicago Tea Party Members Protest IRS Actions
More than a dozen people gathered outside the Chicago IRS office to protest extra IRS scrutiny of their groups.
What Triggers an IRS Tax Audit?
The odds of an audit can increase substantially depending on your income, types of income, deduction amount and changes you have made since filing your last tax return.
Where’s My Refund? IRS Tool Answers That Question
The Internal Revenue Service has a message for taxpayers eager to learn the status of their tax refund: Please don’t check the IRS website every five minutes — once a day is enough.
Plenty Of Changes For Tax Filers This Year
Experts recommend using some type of guidance to navigate forms and maximize your returns.
What To Do If You Owe Taxes But Can’t Pay
So you’ve prepared your tax return and found that you owe. What should you do if you can’t pay?
Basic Errors That Can Delay Your Tax Refund
Millions of people are getting a jump on filing their tax returns now that they have received their W-2s and 1099 forms. And for most, the incentive to get moving is to get that tax refund in their bank account as soon as possible.
As The Tax Man Cometh, Tips For Getting Ready
The IRS expects 75 percent of all 2012 returns will get a refund, so if you haven’t started preparing your taxes yet, do it.
Are You Ready? IRS Says You Can File Your Taxes Wednesday
Ready or not, taxpayers can begin filing their returns online tomorrow.
Local NAACP Leader Wants Group’s Non-Profit Status Revoked
A leader in the NAACP is pushing back against a mindset that if you’re black you vote for Democrats.
Opinion: Churches Shouldn’t Be The Next Super PACs
It is time to end the tax exempt status of religious organizations that advocated for a partisan candidate.
Opinion: Romney’s Friday Tax Document Dump Only Raises More Questions
If the GOP wants a candidate to “man up”, they should tell Mitt Romney to grow up and stop hiding his returns and stop disparaging working Americans for meeting their tax obligations while he dodges his.
Opinion: Mitt Romney’s 13% Tax Admission Is Not Enough
Mitt Romney pays a SHOCKINGLY low percentage of his income on taxes. For a man of his means seeking public office it is a SHAMEFUL number. But Romney is a man without shame.
Opinion: Mitt Romney’s Tax Problem
Mitt Romney is the person who needs to put up or shut up in his dispute with Harry Reid. There is no reason to believe a word he is saying about his taxes.
Report: IRS Says Betty Loren-Maltese Owes Over $238,000
Former Cicero town president Betty Loren Maltese is suffering from a new legal headache.
Opinion: Harry Reid Gives Mitt Hell
An investor in Bain told Senator Reid that Mitt Romney had not paid any taxes over a ten year period, but maybe the more intriguing story is who else he hasn’t been sending money to in years past.
Opinion: Romney’s Gold Medal In Tax Deductions
“[Romney] has pushed the envelope all the way to the edge, to his benefit, and I think that Americans would find that pretty distasteful. I think it’s going to make Americans recoil, and that’s why I think he’s not releasing those returns,” said Former Auto Czar Steve Rattner.
Opinion: Romney Has Disclosed Zero Complete Tax Returns
It turns out Romney either lied to the American public or filed an incomplete and incompetent IRS return in 2010. W. Mitt Romney is hiding the document that reveals more information about the money he is hiding in financial institutions favored by despots, terrorists, drug dealers, money launderers and tax cheats.
Tax Deadline A Week Away; E-Filing Growing In Popularity
The tax deadline is approaching, and millions of taxpayers still haven’t filed their income tax returns.
Tax Rackets – Common Scams Against Honest Taxpayers
Tax day is fast approaching. Review some of the more common tax scams, so that you can avoid them.
Beavers Pleads Not Guilty, Calls U.S. Attorney ‘Worse Than J. Edgar Hoover’
Cook County Commissioner William Beavers lashed out at U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, saying the prosecutor has caused the suicides of three people through “Gestapo-type tactics.”
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- Former Glenbard East Student Accused Of Planning Columbine-Type AttackA 19-year-old former student at Glenbard East High School in Lombard was in custody on Wednesday, accused of planning a "Columbine-style" attack on the school, with a list of people he wanted to target.561
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- Four Schools To Be Spared From Closing; Another To Be DelayedHours before a final vote by the Chicago Board of Education, Chicago Public Schools officials have agreed to back off of plans to close four of the 53 elementary schools targeted for closing at the end of the school year, Board Vice President Jesse Ruiz confirmed Wednesday morning.415
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