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New Program for Offshore Accounts

by Linda Beale New Program for Offshore Accounts crossposted with Ataxingmatter As I mentioned in earlier posts, the IRS has released information about a new voluntary disclosure program for offshore…

CRUSHING TAX BURDEN (tm

…… though the information there was for 2007, with total AGI, for example, at 8.0 Trillion. The following link gives similar information for 2006 My chart shows for the year…

Tax Competition: why it is not a good thing

…can’t be requests for specific accounts if the swiss banks have served to hide the information from the U.S. The information exchange provisions that the Tax Foundation suggests are sufficient,…

Enemy combatants are here

…in the 46 pages of documents, obtained by the Maryland chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, is an account of an activist’s…

Data in, data out

…secrets – as well as citizens’ personal information – are secure, according to recent government reports. In fact, the Government Accountability Office testified to Congress last week that “poor information

Is Fitzmas Over?

…conference of Libby damaging national security by revealing classified information, when Libby wasn’t charged with that … Two years later, we still don’t know important facts. Was Plame covert? Fitzgerald…

HCA: What Did Frist Know and When Did He Know It?

…“material non-public information”. As Duncan Black checks out the Newsweek coverage, he adds: It doesn’t matter how long before the official earnings announcement Frist asked to sell the stock, at…