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california budget surplus
By | 05/10/2013 | Budget, California, Headline

Next week, Governor Brown will announce revised state budget for May and California is expected to have an important surplus for the first time in years. However, before Californians expect too much from the Legislature…

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Eric Swallwell Chris Collins Business Tax Deferment
By | 05/02/2013 | Taxes

Eric Swalwell’s (D-CA) H.R. 952, the “Main Street Revival Act,” would allow new small businesses to defer first year business taxes over a 4 year installment plan. On Wednesday, the bill got a new co-sponsor, from Rep. Chris Collins (R-NY)…

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State, Local Taxes Account for Nearly All of Public Education Funding
By | 04/16/2013 | Education

Over 90 percent of public education funding comes from state and local taxes. Having filed taxes and paid a certain amount (or had an amount returned), it’s important to know where that money goes.

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tax refund theft
By | 04/15/2013 | Headline, In-Depth, Taxes | 16 Comments

While the IRS reports a dramatic increase in fraudulent tax returns and tax return theft for the second fiscal year in a row, the agency’s reported tax-crime figures vary wildly.

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AlternativeMinimumTax
By | 01/30/2013 | Taxes

Rather than address the breaks, loopholes and preferences for the rich head on, Congress papered them over with a parallel tax system called the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT).

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School Voucher Debate
By | 01/23/2013 | Activism, Education, In-Depth, Issues | 25 Comments

The idea behind the school voucher system is essentially that parents receive a voucher for the tax money that would have funded a public school, and this voucher can be used to pay for a child to attend…

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Credit: Gage Skidmore
By | 01/09/2013 | Budget, Legislation, Legislators, Taxes | 75 Comments

Not long after House members were sworn in last week, Georgia Representative Rob Woodall (R) introduced his first bill to establish the FairTax.

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