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IRS Provides Updated Withholding Guidance for 2013
Source: irs.gov - Jan 28, 2013 IR-2013-1, Jan. 3, 2013 WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service today released updated income-tax withholding tables for 2013 reflecting this week’s changes by Congress. The updated tables,... Read more > Category: General Business |
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Here's What's in the Fiscal-Cliff Deal
Source: nationaljournal.com - Jan 2, 2013 Congress on New Year's Day approved legislation to address the year-end tax hikes and spending cuts known as the fiscal cliff. The measure passed the House late on Tuesday after the Senate approved... Read more > Category: General Business |
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Congress approves fiscal crisis bill
Source: foxnews.com - Jan 2, 2013 Congress gave its final approval Tuesday to a bill halting massive tax hikes and delaying a risky round of spending cuts, sending the package to the president’s desk and likely averting for now... Read more > Category: General Business |
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It's up to the House: fiscal cliff faces Republican-controlled territory
Source: cnn.com - Jan 1, 2013 (CNN) -- If a Senate deal to avert the fiscal cliff becomes law, all but a sliver of the U.S. population will avoid higher tax rates, some key issues will be put off for two months, and all sides... Read more > Category: General Business |
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EP Tax Commission opposes state tax collection
Source: evangelinetoday.com - Dec 26, 2012 The Evangeline Parish Tax Commission again discussed a possible state takeover of local sales tax collections, during its monthly meeting on December 19. The commissioners discussed the matter... Read more > Category: General Business |
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Over the fiscal cliff: What kind of landing?
Source: durangoherald.com - Dec 26, 2012 By CONNIE CASS Associated Press Efforts to save the nation from going over a year-end "fiscal cliff" were in disarray as lawmakers fled the Capitol for their Christmas break. "God only knows" how... Read more > Category: General Business |
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GAO Report Examines Social Security Overpayments
Source: tax-news.com - Dec 20, 2012 by Mike Godfrey, Tax-News.com, Washington 19 December 2012 A report prepared by the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) on the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program has... Read more > Category: General Business |
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"Fiscal cliff" talks stalled, House to vote on "Plan B"
Source: cbsnews.com - Dec 20, 2012 WASHINGTON The GOP-controlled House is moving ahead Thursday on a bill that would raise taxes on people earning over $1 million a year, sparing most workers from a tax hike but leaving in place... Read more > Category: General Business |
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SO WHO’S AFRAID OF THE FISCAL CLIFF?
Source: jimbrownla.com - Dec 13, 2012 Thursday, December 13th, 2012 Baton Rouge, Louisiana What’s most memorable about January 1, 2000? That was the day, experts of all types warned, that the economies and businesses of world were... Read more > Category: General Business |
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Medical director says Blue Cross preparing for $90M in new taxes from 'Obamacare'
Source: businessreport.com - Dec 13, 2012 Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana expects to pay $90 million in new taxes in the first year to fund rollout of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or "Obamacare," says Chief... Read more > Category: General Business |
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Bribery allegations dog Jefferson Parish code inspectors
Source: nola.com - Dec 13, 2012 By Drew Broach, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune on December 12, 2012 Bribery allegations against some Jefferson Parish building code inspectors are the subject of a criminal investigation by the... Read more > Category: General Business |
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Obama's Fiscal Cliff Proposals Unacceptable To GOP
Source: tax-news.com - Dec 3, 2012 By Mike Godfrey, Tax-News.com, Washington 03 December 2012 United States House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner (R – Ohio) called President Barack Obama’s first proposal, involving both... Read more > Category: General Business |
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BR, N.O. rank low in global recovery
Source: theadvocate.com - Dec 3, 2012 BY TIMOTHY BOONE Advocate business writer December 03, 2012 Baton Rouge and New Orleans both ranked low in a report on how the world’s largest metro area economies are recovering from the global... Read more > Category: General Business |
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Sales tax trend continues
Source: theadvocate.com - Dec 3, 2012 By Bob Anderson Florida Parishes bureau December 03, 2012 LIVINGSTON — Parish sales tax revenue rose for the 24th straight month in October, Livingston Parish tax records show. When compared... Read more > Category: General Business |
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Delgado, Sewerage & Water Board announce skilled job-training program
Source: nola.com - Dec 3, 2012 By Richard Rainey, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune on December 03, 2012 at 8:08 AM, updated December 03, 2012 at 9:01 AM Delgado Community College, the New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board and... Read more > Category: General Business |
