taxpayers

Strict action against CAs and agencies who mislead taxpayers

Cities such as Gurugram, Ghaziabad, Mumbai and Bengaluru are being targeted by Income Tax Department.Notices to taxpayers for the 2021-22 and 2022-23 ass





taxpayers

OBA: ‘Inexcusable Waste Of Taxpayers Dollars’

[Updated with video] “This inexcusable waste of taxpayers dollars lies squarely with Premier Burt and his colleagues,” OBA MP Craig Cannonier said following the government’s announcement that a “decision was made to pivot the Bermudiana Beach Resort to residential rental units.” The property, originally called Grand Atlantic, was built over a decade ago as a housing development, only […]




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Investigation: Waste of the Day – Chicago Police Misconduct Costs Taxpayers Millions

Investigation by Jeremy Portnoy originally published by RealClearInvestigations and RealClearWire Topline: Chicago spent over $384 million settling lawsuits alleging misconduct by police officers between 2019 and 2023, according to WTTW News Key facts: A federal court ordered Chicago in 2019 to change the way it trains and disciplines police officers after an investigation found that …




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Scam Alert: Division Of Revenue Warns Taxpayers Of Fraudulent Letters

The Delaware Division of Revenue is warning the public of a new tax scam that’s happening in Delaware. Victims receive a letter from the “Tax Processing Unit” that threatens property seizure and wage garnishment unless the victim calls a toll-free number to “avoid enforcement.”



  • Division of Revenue
  • Scams
  • Tax Processing Unit

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Unclaimed Property MONEY MATCH Program Returns over $364,000 to Delaware Taxpayers

MONEY MATCH is One of Several Ongoing Initiatives to Increase the Return of Unclaimed Property to Owners The second week of September means it is time for back-to-school, pumpkin spice lattes, football, cool fall weather, and the State of Delaware’s annual MONEY MATCH check program. This week, the Delaware Office of Unclaimed Property will return […]




taxpayers

Corporate taxpayers frustrated with Sars over delays, aggressive penalties

Half of the participants in the Taxing Times survey still find compliance with tax obligations difficult





taxpayers

Income Tax Department Cracks Down on Bogus Refund Claims, Sends Notices to Taxpayers

The Income Tax Department has intensified scrutiny on dubious tax refund claims for the assessment years 2021-22 and 2022-23, issuing notices to multiple taxpayers across the country. ...




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Tax-News.com: Singapore To Allow Taxpayers Longer To Report TP Adjustments

The Singaporean Government has announced it will amend provisions on transfer pricing adjustments in the draft Income Tax (Amendment) Bill 2021, which includes measures announced in the 2021 Budget, following a consultation.




taxpayers

Tax-News.com: UK Taxpayers May Arrange Payment Of Deferred VAT In 2021

HM Revenue and Customs has confirmed that UK businesses who wish to pay their deferred VAT liabilities in installments will be able to decide a payment schedule early next year.




taxpayers

How Do Taxpayers Respond to Public Disclosure and Social Recognition Programs? Evidence from Pakistan [electronic journal].




taxpayers

What do taxpayers want from the Budget?

Almost everyone Portfolio spoke to is hopeful of an increase in the tax exemption limit to at least ₹2 lakh




taxpayers

How are taxpayers preparing to file returns?

To complete this annual ritual by July 31, assessees have several options. It will help to keep abreast of the tweaks made every year




taxpayers

Britain's richest men worth £22BILLION use taxpayers' cash to furlough staff at their bus firm

The transport company Optare is using the Government scheme despite owners - the Hinduja family - building a huge fortune. Pictured are the brothers Srichand and Gopi Hinduja.




taxpayers

Message in a bottle: Producers not taxpayers should pay for the waste they generate - Insights Blog

Have you ever wondered who was paying to recycle that plastic bottle you just threw away?




taxpayers

Who pays for universities: taxpayers or students? (OECD Education Today Blog)

There are few issues in education that raise as much political and ideological controversy as tuition fees for higher education.




taxpayers

Obama asks taxpayers to shoulder nuclear risk

Banks won't touch them they are so financially risky. So why does Obama want U.S. taxpayers to fund nuclear plants when there is a 50% chance they will fail?



  • Research & Innovations

taxpayers

Israel’s Largest Bank, Bank Hapoalim, Admits to Conspiring with U.S. Taxpayers to Hide Assets and Income in Offshore Accounts

Jeffrey A. Rosen, the Deputy Attorney General of the United States, Richard E. Zuckerman, the Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Don Fort, the Chief of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), announced today the guilty plea of Bank Hapoalim (Switzerland) Ltd. and filing of criminal charges against Bank Hapoalim B.M. for conspiring with U.S. taxpayers and others to hide more than $7.6 billion in more than 5,500 secret Swiss and Israeli bank accounts and the income generated in these accounts from the Internal Revenue Service (the IRS).  BHS’s Chief Executive Officer appeared on behalf of the bank to enter the guilty plea before U.S. District Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil.




taxpayers

Taxpayers are funding Instagram influencers to promote tourism in the Kimberley

Government marketers are spending an increasing amount of money on bringing so-called influencers to Australia, but is it money well spent?




taxpayers

Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Assn. v. Newsom

(California Court of Appeal) - Affirmed. The court found that Senate Bill No. 1107 directly conflicts with Political Reform Act of 1974 and does not further the purposes of the Act.




taxpayers

Cal. Taxpayers Action Network v. Taber Construction

(California Court of Appeal) - In a reverse validation action under Code Civ. Proc. section 863 challenging the propriety of school districts' use of lease-leaseback agreements in contracting for construction or improvement of school facilities, the trial court's judgment sustaining defendants' demurrer is: 1) reversed in part as to the conflict of interest claim where plaintiff has stated a claim of conflict of interest against the construction company-defendant sufficient to withstand a demurrer; but 2) otherwise affirmed.




taxpayers

Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Assn. v. Newsom

(California Court of Appeal) - Affirmed. The court found that Senate Bill No. 1107 directly conflicts with Political Reform Act of 1974 and does not further the purposes of the Act.




taxpayers

Land Taxpayers Reminded To Submit Forms

The Land Valuation Department is reminding all land taxpayers to complete and submit the survey forms received in the mail during the first two weeks of November 2019, with forms available for download for those who have no received them. A government spokesperson said, “The Land Valuation Department is reminding all land taxpayers to complete […]

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taxpayers

Berlin High School football recruiting scandal cost Berlin Connecticut taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars

Eyewitness News has learned that the Berlin High School football recruiting scandal may have cost Berlin taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars. Continue reading




taxpayers

Congress Sets Up Taxpayers to Eat $454 Billion of Wall Street’s Losses. Where Is the Outrage?

Congress Sets Up Taxpayers to Eat $454 Billion of Wall Street’s Losses. Where Is the Outrage?

By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: May 7, 2020 ~ Beginning on March 24 of this year, Larry Kudlow, the White House Economic Advisor, began to roll out the most deviously designed bailout of Wall Street in the history of America. After the Federal Reserve’s secret $29 trillion bailout of Wall Street from 2007 to 2010, and the exposure of that by a government audit and in-depth report by the Levy Economics Institute in 2011, Kudlow was going to have to come up with a brilliant strategy to sell another multi-trillion-dollar Wall Street bailout to the American people. The scheme was brilliant (in an evil genius sort of way) and audacious in employing an Orwellian form of reverse-speak. The plan to bail out Wall Street would be sold to the American people as a rescue of “Main Street.” It was critical, however, that all of the officials speaking to the … Continue reading

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taxpayers

Coronavirus stay-at-home order saves state taxpayers $1 billion after car crashes cut by 60%

California's stay-at-home order due to the coronavirus reduced vehicle collisions on roadways by roughly half, saving taxpayers an estimated $1 billion.




taxpayers

Clarification – Labour tax bombshell UBI would cost taxpayers £520 billion – 27/01/20



On 23 September 2019, we published an article headlined 'Labour's tax bombshell: Corbyn's benefits splurge plot would cost taxpayers £520 billion' the article focused on Labour's potential objective of introducing a universal basic income and its associated costs.




taxpayers

Letters: Taxpayers foot the bill for 'fancy' roundabouts in Carmel

Carmel is spending too much taxpayer money building expensive roundabouts when simpler ones would be enough, a letter to the editor says.

      




taxpayers

Among Taxpayers, Inequality May Equal Cheating

Economists have long known there are two reasons that people cheat on their taxes. One is that they are poor and need the extra cash so badly they are willing to risk getting caught. The other is that they are rich and have lots of "non-matchable" income -- mostly investment income not directly...




taxpayers

Taxpayers on the hook for $600K 'bridge to nowhere', says local woman

A petition is being circulated to get a $600,000 bridge replacement project near Millvale scrapped.



  • News/Canada/PEI

taxpayers

Fin24.com | Taxpayers invested about R1.6 billion in Section 12J projects

Interest in Section 12J has grown each year, with the current financial year being no different, says Jonty Sacks, a partner at Jaltech.




taxpayers

Fin24.com | 12 tips for taxpayers to better understand section 12J investments

By the end of February, most taxpayers are looking for every opportunity to reduce their tax liabilities.




taxpayers

GSTN allows inter-head cash transfer for taxpayers; resolves cash flow issues

GSTN added that a taxpayer can now transfer the amount available in an electronic cash ledger from one major head to another major head, keeping the minor head the same.




taxpayers

California Sues Uber And Lyft For 'Cheating' Drivers And Taxpayers

The state accuses the ride-hailing apps of flouting a labor law by classifying drivers as independent contractors instead of employees.




taxpayers

Four Swiss Bankers Charged with Helping U.S. Taxpayers Use Secret Accounts at Swiss Banks to Evade U.S. Taxes

Marco Parenti Adami, Emanuel Agustino, Michele Bergantino and Roger Schaerer, bankers at an international bank, were indicted by a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia and charged with conspiring with other Swiss bankers to defraud the United States.



  • OPA Press Releases

taxpayers

Former UBS Banker Charged with Helping U.S. Taxpayers Use Secret Swiss Bank Accounts to Evade U.S. Taxes

Martin Lack, a former UBS AG banker who is currently an independent asset manager, has been charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States.



  • OPA Press Releases

taxpayers

Two Los Angeles Residents Permanently Barred by Federal Court from Forming Trusts for Taxpayers

A federal court in California has permanently barred Gwenn Wycoff and Frank Ozak from forming trusts for others.



  • OPA Press Releases

taxpayers

Court Authorizes Service of John Doe Summons Seeking the Identities of U.S. Taxpayers with Offshore Accounts at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce’s FirstCaribbean International Bank

The Justice Department announced that late yesterday a federal court in San Francisco entered an order authorizing the Internal Revenue Service to serve a John Doe summons seeking information about U.S. taxpayers who may hold offshore accounts at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce FirstCaribbean International Bank.



  • OPA Press Releases

taxpayers

Court Authorizes IRS to Issue Summonses for Records Relating to U.S. Taxpayers with Offshore Bank Accounts

Five Banks Directed to Produce Records for Accounts at Zurcher Kantonalbank, The Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son Limited and Affiliates



  • OPA Press Releases

taxpayers

California Banker Charged with Helping U.S. Taxpayers Conceal Secret Israeli Bank Accounts

Shokrollah Baravarian, of Beverly Hills, California, was charged today in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California with conspiracy to defraud the United States.



  • OPA Press Releases

taxpayers

Credit Suisse Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Aid and Assist U.S. Taxpayers in Filing False Returns

Credit Suisse AG pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to aid and assist U.S. taxpayers in filing false income tax returns and other documents with the Internal Revenue Service.



  • OPA Press Releases

taxpayers

Remarks by Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division Leslie R. Caldwell at the Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund Conference

Qui tam cases are a vital part of the Criminal Division’s future efforts. We encourage you to reach out to criminal authorities in appropriate cases, even when you are discussing the case with civil authorities. The sooner we on the criminal side learn about potential criminal conduct, the sooner we can investigate.




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7 of Top 10 Counties by Share of Taxpayers Claiming EITC Are in Mississippi


In new Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center analysis of Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) take-up at the county level, Benjamin Harris, a fellow in Economic Studies, and Research Assistant Lucie Parker use zip-code level data on taxes and demographics to take a "fresh look" at the EITC. "Since its creation in 1975," they write, "the Earned Income Tax Credit has played a major role in the U.S. safety net." Earlier this year, Harris presented EITC take-up using IRS data from 2007. Compare that to the new list of ten counties with the highest share of EITC recipients below:

Rank  County EITC Share (pct)
10 Sharkey Co., MS 50.5
9 Quitman Co., MS 50.7
8 Coahoma Co., MS 51.6
7 Starr Co., TX 52.1
6 Claiborne Co., MS 52.7
5 Humphreys Co., MS 53.0
4 Buffalo Co., SD 54.1
3 Shannon Co., SD 54.5 
2 Holmes Co., MS 55.5
1 Tunica Co., MS 56.1

"The regional variation EITC claiming is stark," Harris and Parker conclude. "The counties with the highest share of taxpayers claiming the EITC are overwhelming located in the Southeast. ... [O]ver half the taxpayers in a large share of counties in Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi claim the EITC. With few exceptions, almost all counties with high EITC claiming are located in the South. Relative to the South, the Northeast and the Midwest have much lower claiming rates. Moreover, average EITC benefit closely follows the pattern for share of taxpayers taking up the credit: in counties where more taxpayers claim the credit, the credit is larger on the whole."

Visit this U.S. map interactive to get county level data on share of taxpayers claiming EITC as well as average EITC amount, in dollars, per county.

Authors

  • Fred Dews
     
 
 





taxpayers

Seeks to extend the due date for furnishing FORM GSTR-3B, Jan-March, 2020 returns for the taxpayers registered in Ladakh

[To be published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i)] Government of India Ministry of Finance




taxpayers

Tax-News.com: India Consults Taxpayers On Income Tax Law Reform

India has launched a consultation on efforts to reform the country's 1961 income tax law, to be led by a newly constituted task force.




taxpayers

Tax-News.com: Malaysian Taxpayers Seek 'Fairer' Tax System

The Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) has called on the Malaysian Government to reintroduce inheritance tax in the Budget 2018.




taxpayers

Tax-News.com: New Zealand To Better Track Taxpayers' Property Transactions

New Zealand's Inland Revenue has announced that those who buy and sell property will be required to provide their IRD number on land transfer documentation, to improve the agency's ability to enforce the tax rules on property speculation.




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Tax-News.com: Irish Taxpayers Must Renew 2014 Tax Rulings

Companies with a tax ruling dating from 2014 from the Irish Revenue have been encouraged to renew these before they expire.