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- Americans Say Federal Income Taxes Too High, But Not Unfair GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- Americans who have yet to file their 2006 federal income taxes will most likely spend this weekend scrambling to get their taxes finished before Monday'...
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- No-Tax Deal Fading Fast In the past few weeks, investors have found an unlikely place to score unusually high yields: tax-free money-market mutual funds. But experts say the super-high rates are already fading. While there's still an opportunity to...
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- Health plan access to high-income earners with large tax increases WASHINGTON -- The typical family would be spared higher taxes from the House Democratic plan to overhaul health care, and their low-income neighbors could come out ahead. Their wealt...
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- FLAT TAX ALREADY A REALITY In a study for the National Bureau of Economic Research, Boston University economists Laurence J. Kotlikoff and David Rapson found that when including state income taxes, sales taxes and the offsetting benefits of major go...
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- Mutual fund investors are taxed on their investments in three ways TAX EFFICIENCY Most mutual fund investors mistakenly overlook the issue of tax efficiency when purchasing mutual funds, and yet it can have as large an impact on your total return as...
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- Will IRS pay interest on a tax refund? George Saenz Dear Tax Talk, I filed my 2007 taxes a year late, but I was not worried about it since I had calculated that $12,000 was due to me as a refund. In the past, the IRS paid me interest on refunds even...
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- Get Tax Refund on Purchases in London Thiminh Though shopping in London is astronomically expensive, there is some relief: they offer tax refunds on your purchases. Certain stores will allow you to cash in and get refunded for the sales tax on your...
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- All countries have government-required laws like Sarbanes Oxley. In the UK, it's the Combined Code on Corporate Governance, in The Netherlands it's the Code Tabaksblatt, Germany has a Bilanz Reform and a Bilanz Kontroll Gesetz. But then, why do we n...
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- Hit a big one? With more and more gambling establishments, keep in mind the IRS requires people to report all gambling winnings as income on their tax return. Gambling income includes, but is not limited to, winnings from lotteries, raffles, horse a...
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- The July directive requires banks throughout Europe, including low and no tax areas such as Gibraltar, Monaco, Malta and Andorra, to disclose bank account owner information to their home country's tax authority. But Roger Munns, Managing Director of...