Cash-strapped New York starts enforcing sales tax on sliced bagels
What's the tax on a bagel? It depends how you slice it—or in the case of New York, if you slice it. State tax officials, under orders from cash-strapped Albany to ramp up their audit and compliance efforts, have begun to enforce one of the more obscure dist...
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UN panel: New taxes needed for a climate fund
Carbon taxes, add-ons to international air fares and a levy on cross-border money movements are among ways being cons...
Connecticut Attorney General probes Apple, Amazon over e-books
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is investigating deals struck by Amazon.com Inc and Apple Inc to offe...
British businessman hid £140,000 in his aunt's grave in tax-evasion scam
A businessman buried £140,000 in his aunt’s grave in an attempt to dodge his taxes.
Canadian man protests tax by trying to pay with 200,000 pennies
A Quebec man, fed up with his skyrocketing property taxes, carted more than 200,000 pennies down to City Hall to pay ...
Ex-Clinton fundraiser gets 12 years in prison
A wealthy Manhattan investment banker who was once a top fundraiser for Hillary Rodham Clinton and other big-name Dem...
Feds collect $20 billion in taxes on alcohol, tobacco, firearms, ammunition; Up 41%
Americans armed themselves to the teeth and paid through the nose to have a smoke, according to a U.S. government rep...
Illinois Considers 'Obesity Tax'
Feel like you're taxed enough already? More could be coming. There's an early push to explore taxing soft drinks that...
Disney Loses `Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' Trial
Walt Disney Co. was found liable for not paying the U.K. creators of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” their share of p...
1,300 Inmates Got $9M in Homebuyer Tax Credits
Nearly 1,300 prison inmates wrongly received more than $9 million in tax credits for homebuyers despite being locked ...
Britain raises VAT sales tax to 20%
British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne increased the value-added tax rate to 20 percent from 17.5 percent...
Democrats' tax bill moves toward vote in US Senate
A Democratic plan to extend benefits for the jobless that would also more than double the tax rate for investment fun...
Hillary Clinton urges rich Latin Americans to pay 'fair' tax share
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday urged the wealthy across the Americas to pay their "fair share" of t...
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