WASHINGTON — Being uninsured in America will cost you more in 2015. It’s the first year all taxpayers have to report to the Internal Revenue Service whether they had health insurance for the previous year, as required under President Barack ...

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ALBANY — New York taxpayers are expected to pick up the bill in civil lawsuits aimed at the state Assembly and Speaker Sheldon Silver over a $103,000 secret settlement of sexual harassment claims. Under New York law, the state defends ...

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Thomas H. Mattox, New York state commissioner of Taxation and Finance has announced that, as of the end of April, 87 percent of taxpayers had e-filed their personal income tax returns. More than 7.9 million taxpayers e-filed their personal income ...

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ALBANY — New York state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli says local governments are leaning harder on their taxpayers because of sluggish state and federal aid. DiNapoli’s report states that in the last decade, federal and state aid grew an average of ...

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Faced with a trillion-dollar deficit, federal lawmakers need to raise revenue. The feds also have to cut spending. So that means tax increases and cuts in defense and entitlement programs, and it needs to do both as soon as possible, ...

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WASHINGTON — A government watchdog says U.S. taxpayers are still owed $132.9 billion that companies haven’t repaid from the financial bailout, and some of that will never be recovered. The bailout launched at the height of the financial crisis in ...

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ALBANY — Taxpayers allied with the Tea Party movement have urged New York’s top court to help them end corporate welfare and require the return of potentially billions of dollars to the state’s taxpayers. The 50 taxpayers say in their lawsuit argued Wednesday ...

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Hurricane Irene affected a lot of schedules and deadlines, including the Internal Revenue Service’s successful 2011 Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Initiative (OVDI). The program encourages taxpayers with undisclosed income in foreign banks or hidden offshore accounts to resolve the issue with the IRS.

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ALBANY — Wall Street's volatility has hit state pension funds just as they were beginning to recover from the recession, turning what was merely a troubled forecast into a potentially stormy future for taxpayers who are on the hook for billions in unfunded liabilities for government retirees.

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In February, the Internal Revenue Service announced it would extend its popular (and lucrative to the government) voluntary disclosure initiative program to help taxpayers with undisclosed income in foreign banks or hidden offshore accounts to resolve the issue with the IRS.

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Outrageous claims? The Internal Revenue Service has heard them all. From the taxpayer who claims she is not a “person” as defined by the IRS and therefore not subject to federal income tax laws ...

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Unshackle Upstate, a coalition representing more than 70,000 upstate employers, this week released its legislative scorecards for the 2009-2010 session. The cards are available online ...

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