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Jun 25 2024
News
Boise City Council discusses $876.3 million budget, public safety and staffing
A Boise City Council work session was held on Tuesday at 8 a.m. to discuss the Fiscal Year 2025 budget and public safety staffing. All funds in the budget total to $876.3 million: • $463.4 million will go to operating and capital costs for the airport, geothermal, solid waste and water renewal funds, primarily supported by service users • $327.2 million will go to operating costs from general
KBOI 2Mar 29 2023
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Credit Suisse whistleblowers say Swiss bank has been helping wealthy Americans dodge U.S. taxes for years
Credit Suisse, the collapsed Swiss bank taken over by UBS Group in a hastily arranged bailout earlier this month, may bring with it a fresh set of regulatory and legal problems for its new owner.
For years, the bank has provided a safe haven for wealthy American clients to hide assets from the IRS — even after it was caught and prosecuted for doing the same thing more than a decade ago
CNBCJun 26 2024
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Eco-Militants Want Judges To Ban Gas and Oil, Having Failed To Convince Voters, Consumers To Embrace Their Cause
The climate change industrial complex joins forces with trial lawyers to advance their war on fossil fuels. Things aren’t going well at all for the global warming crusaders. Despite hundreds of billions of tax dollars spent on green energy over the past decade, the world and America used more fossil fuels than ever before in history last year. The electric vehicle movement is stalled out,
The New York SunJun 25 2024
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Barack Obama's Sister Gets Tear Gassed During Protest, Enraged During CNN Interview
During a protest in Nairobi, Kenya, on Monday, Auma Obama –the half-sister of former President Barack Obama — was tear gassed. The African country has been mired in widespread protests in response to new legislation that would increase taxes on its citizens this week. Kenyan lawmakers voted the bill in despite the protests, angering many citizens already struggling with the incredibly high
Western JournalJun 25 2024
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State audit finds Grand County misused, misreported TRT money
The county agrees with some findings but disagrees with others. A recent Utah state audit report found misuse and misreporting of restricted tourism-related tax revenues in Grand County. The state auditor determined Grand County improperly used $700,000 of tourism-specific revenue on the Grand Center in 2023. Photo by Andrew Christiansen The Grand County Commission said they agree with some of
The Times-IndependentJul 19 2023
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Powerball's jackpot reaches $1 billion—here's the after-tax payout in every U.S. state
Powerball's jackpot prize is now $1 billion, the third-highest ever. But the amount that winners take home will vary by hundreds of millions of dollars, based on the payout they choose and whether their state charges taxes on the winnings. Powerball's next draw is Wednesday night at 10:59 p.m. ET. There are two payout options: The full jackpot amount spread out over 30 years as an annual
CNBCMar 21 2023
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States cranking out even more tax cuts amid cash surpluses
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Just six months after passing what was billed as the largest tax cut in Missouri history, the Republican-led state House voted Tuesday for an even bigger income tax cut that could return over $1 billion annually to individuals, corporations and retirees. The Missouri legislation is the latest in a series of aggressive tax reductions that swept across U.S. states last
San Francisco ChronicleOct 17 2017
News
Chicago Repeals Its Soda Tax
Have even liberals had enough of the nanny state?
National Review (News)Oct 02 2020
Analysis
The Irony of Democrats Complaining about Trump’s Taxes
The story of Donald Trump’s tax returns is, as I noted previously, unlikely to have a big political effect, and is already overshadowed by much of the other talk at Tuesday’s debate. It is, however, worth asking what exactly the criticism is about. The irony is that Trump was a beneficiary of the kind of tax complexity that Democrats tend to prefer, and specifically a beneficiary of an Obama
National Review (News)Jun 14 2024
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What Buffalo's mayor is doing – and not doing – to avoid a fiscal crisis
A fiscal crisis is looming for the City of Buffalo, the city comptroller, Common Council members and Buffalo Fiscal Stability Authority are all warning. In less than 12 months, the city will face a budget gap of at least $41 million, but it could be more than $55 million. Mayor Byron W. Brown admits it is inevitable that the city – which raised its tax levy by 7.5% this year – will have to
The Buffalo News