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• Figuring out the home-buyer tax credit

  
  L.A. Land — Authority: 568
  Is there a home-buying tax credit in your future? Columnist Kathy M. Kristof details the changes that will allow millions of additional people to take advantage of the $8,000 tax credit for first-time home purchasers, under legislation signed Friday by President Obama. The new law raises the income restrictions for ...
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• Killing Jobs with Tax Increases

  
  Cascade Policy Institute - Oregon Public Policy — Authority: 112
  Click here to read the full report in PDF formatSummary: The looming campaign to approve or reject two new legislative tax increases will be spirited and probably heated. What voters believe these new taxes will do to jobs very well could be the deciding factor in the January 26, 2010 special election, where both ...
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• TUC backs Tobin tax to pay for bank bailouts

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  • Unions back Brown plan that could raise £30bn a year • PM undeterred by bank chiefs and US opposition The TUC is today throwing its weight behind Gordon Browns plans for a levy on financial institutions , proposing a tax on UK banks to spare the country from tax increases and public spending cuts. With ...
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• Breaking: Ambac may file for bankruptcy

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 449
  OMG: Ambac warns it may file for bankruptcy a week after it reported $2.2B quarterly profit. Market surely can turn upside-down in one week or a day. Bond insurer says it may not have enough money to meet payment due in 2011 Link: http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2009/11/10/82546/ambac-warns-of-bankruptcy-risk/ ...
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• 5 Ways to Protect Yourself From Coming Tax Hikes

  
  The Daily Reckoning — Authority: 645
  “The tax man cometh,” says Jim Jubak at MSN Money. According to the IMF, we’re looking at 10 years of government tax increases. So it’s time to buckle in and prepare for it… because “tax increases from the federal government lag tax increases from the states. But that doesn’t mean they aren’t ...
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• HomeBuyer Tax Credit Plan - Los Angeles

  
  San Fernando Valley Real Estate — Authority: 112
  HomeBuyer Tax credit plan The homebuyer tax credit expansion measure includes these provisions: • Extends the $8,000 first time Homebuyers Tax Credit and creates a new $6,500 tax credit for homeowners buying a new home by July 1, 2010. • Homebuyers with contracts as of April 30 qualify for the credit so ...
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• U.S. Home Sales Rise to Two-Year High on Tax Credit

  
  Roni Deutch: The Tax Lady Blog — Authority: 434
  After struggling for the better part of the last two years, it looks like the real estate industry is finally rebounding as the third quarter of this year represented the largest increase of home sales in two years. Much of this increase can likely be attributed to the homebuyer’s credit, which was due to expire ...
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• Ways to Resolve Your IRS Tax Debt

  
  Roni Deutch: The Tax Lady Blog — Authority: 434
  Just before the weekend, my YouTube team shot another new episode for our YouTube tax tips video series. In this episode, host Edward Lester discusses the different approaches to settling IRS back tax debts. You can watch the embedded video below but be check out my YouTube channel to subscribe to my ...
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• Jerks In Congress need a tax on the wealthy. That’s all they need.

  
  I Hate the Media Article Feed — Authority: 621
  Congress prepares to Jerk everyone around Remember Steve Martin’s movie The Jerk? Navin R. Johnson said all he needed was the ashtray, the remote control, the paddle game, this magazine and the chair. And that’s all he needed. Now the jerks in Congress say that in order to pay for health care, they need is a ...
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• Pawlenty Acts; Berglin Whines, Refuses to Enact Important Reforms

  
  Let Freedom Ring — Authority: 139
  This morning, DHS Commissioner Cal Ludeman announced that people currently on GAMC will be automatically transferred to MinnesotaCare . In transitioning people from GAMC to MinnesotaCare, Gov. Pawlenty’s administration has laid to rest one of the DFL’s accusations, that his unallotments would create thousands ...
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• Why is Timothy Geithner Rejecting Legislative Policy?

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 768
  Treasury Secretary Geithner has the presidents ear (photo from Downing Street) Over the weekend, the G-20 held a summit on the financial crisis, and several nations put forward the idea of a “Tobin tax,” a fractional tax on international financial transactions, to help pay for economic recovery and future bank ...
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• Gordon Brown warned: axing childcare vouchers will cost Labour seats

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Former ministers say plan would undo one of partys landmark achievements Nine former cabinet ministers today rounded on Gordon Browns plans to cut childcare, warning the prime minister that he is threatening marginal Labour seats in the runup to the election by axing popular support for hard-working parents. The ...
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• Kerik Is Ordered Released on Bail

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  Bernard B. Kerik, the former head of the New York Police Department, will be sentenced in February after pleading guilty to tax fraud and of lying to White House officials.
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• Governance of tax issues for directors

  
  Lance Wiggs — Authority: 490
  I’ve just run across this nice cheat sheet by the ATO – a tax governance guide for directors of large companies. It’s got some handy hints for directors of smaller companies as well. I maintain that at least one person on each board needs to understand this stuff well, and that everyone on the board should be ...
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• Nightly Ramble Tuesday

  
  BitsBlog — Authority: 140
  Welcome, one and all to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the sphere… The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble SCOZZAFAVA AND THE LEFT: I guess it should not be surprising at all, to see leftists still trying to control the GOP by means of mislabeling such as Dede Scozzafava as a ‘moderate’.  Certainly, ...
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• And now for the other side of the coin on the home-buyer tax credit

  
  Real Estate Consumer News — Authority: 127
  Publishers note: If you have been reading our blog for a while you are probably aware we have been supporters and advocates of the home-buyer tax credit as well as the extension and expansion of the credit, which happened last week.  We realize however, there are people that do not support the credits for a ...
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• VITA-a vital service

  
  ataxingmatter — Authority: 113
  The IRS provides about $8 million to assist programs that provide free tax preparation services to low-income taxpayers.  This year, the IRS announced that it had applications from 360 organizations seeking $30 million in matching funds--obviously much more than was available.  The funds are intended to enable the ...
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• IFA International Tax Student Writing Competition

  
  TaxProf Blog — Authority: 672
  The International Fiscal Association is sponsoring an DInternational Tax Student Writing Competition: Subject: Any topic relating to U.S. taxation of income from international activities, including taxation under U.S. tax treaties. Open to: All students during the 2008-09 academic year pursuing a graduate degree with ...
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• Over 90 Percent Of Daleys Property Taxes Go Towards TIF

  
  Progress Illinois - — Authority: 652
  Each fall, Cook County Clerk David Orr releases an annual tally of how much public money has been absorbed into Chicagos massive tax increment financing (TIF) system. Like clockwork, each new reportreveals that hundreds of millions are whisked away fromschools, parks, libraries, and other taxing bodies. The exact ...
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• I agree with what Lawrence says but not what he means…..

  
  Straight Talk About Mortgages and Real Estate — Authority: 543
  In a report issued by the National Association of Realtors, they talk about how housing prices are still falling compared to last year (year over year).   I don’t think that really surprises anyone, so I’m not going to talk about that. What I’m going to pick on is what Lawrence Yun, the  choir boy for NAR ...
  7 hours ago

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