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Hello, The City of Philadelphia has launched a Tax Amnesty program for individuals and businesses. All penalties will be waived and 50% of the interest will be forgiven. The program is for a limited time, until June 25th (only 10 days remaining). If you miss this amnesty, the taxes you owe now...

All of the following are actual experiments conducted on live animals with your TAX PAYERS money: 10) 4 OUT OF 5 SCIENTISTS SURVEYED RECOMMEND EJACULATION TO RATS Four researchers at the University of Western Ontario?s School of Medicine and Dentistry and one researcher at the University of...

If you were to somehow be able to change the tax system of a country on your own, what system would you want and why? I recently saw this question posed on Reddit (a social bookmarking site for those not familiar with it) and was wondering how everyone here would respond.

Washington D.C. recently enacted a 5 cent tax on each plastic bag taken at grocery stores. The move is to encourage citizens to bring their own bags and hence not use the non eco-friendly plastic bags. How does everyone feel about the tax and do you think it is a good idea?

Earlier today, a small plane crashed into a seven-story IRS office building in Texas. The crash looks like it may have been planned and been a protest due to an earlier internet posting by the attacker, which suggests so. Officials have labeled the attack a criminal one and not terrorist as it...

President Obama has unveiled a new plan that would provide tax credit for companies who hire new employees. The plan comes in light of a big Democrat loss in Massachusetts and growing worries about the employment number.The focus with this proposal is to get small businesses to start hiring...

President Obama has proposed a bank tax to help offset bailout costs and to help offset the growing deficit. Does anyone else see anything wrong with this? Not only have the major banks paid back most, if not all of their TARP money (many with interest,) but this move will only hurt market...

With all the talk of jobs going to other countries and the current recession, if you had the power to make all the changes to the country to resolve this issue what would you do? I would put a huge tariff/tax on the Chinese (or any other country) imports of all that cheap plastic stuff that we...

Anyone got any views on the Tax Tea Parties that were held all over the US? I thought that it was great and apparently thousands of people attended some of the parties. Good part for me is that US citizens are less passive than what people generally think. Hopefully these Tax Parties will...