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More Than 10,000 Rich Households Didn't Pay Income Tax

The Huffington Post | Catherine New | Posted 05.29.2012

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Out of the 3.9 million households that reported an adjusted gross income of $200,000 or more in 2009, more than 10,000 households paid nothing in taxe...

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Tax Audits Go More Smoothly For The Rich

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 04.09.2012

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Here's another way the rich are different: If they get audited by the IRS, they have a much better chance of dealing with an actual person. Accordi...

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Tax Audit Fears Are...

Posted 03.23.2012

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As we all prepare and file our tax returns ahead of this year's April 17 deadline, the sense that Big Brother is looking down at us -- making sure we ...

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IRS Audits Of Millionaires Jump By Roughly A Third

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 01.05.2012

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What do the Occupy movement and IRS have in common? They're both taking an interest in the one percent. Tax audits for millionaires jumped in fisca...

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Audit Panel Finds No Violations In Handover Of Disgraced Company

Posted 12.27.2011

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TOKYO (Reuters) - A panel reviewing the auditing of Olympus Corp after its $1.7 billion accounting scandal said it had so far not found any proble...

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Jason Cherkis

Ex-Gingrich Aide Received Fishy Payments, Quit Campaign To Fix House

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Cherkis | Posted 08.14.2011

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ABC News reported on Tuesday that Renewing American Leadership, a tax-exempt nonprofit founded by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, had funneled mor...

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Memo to Tea Party Senators

Winslow T. Wheeler | Posted 05.25.2011

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Winslow T. Wheeler

Every base, installation, and weapons system has its own constituency. As a result of the pressures to preserve jobs and incomes, many defense decisions are made for parochial reasons.

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Earth to Pentagon: Follow the Freaking Money!

David Isenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

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David Isenberg

It's time to take another look at the wonderful, wacky world of government regulation of military contractors. By now it should be a no brainer that ...

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Socially Progressive/Fiscally Conservative

Brandon Shaffer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Brandon Shaffer

Democrats are more comfortable saying they're "progressive," while Republicans tend to call themselves "libertarian." I think they're both saying essentially the same thing.

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Reclaiming Our Streets

Wendy Greuel | Posted 05.25.2011

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Wendy Greuel

This morning I released a follow-up audit of the City's Comprehensive Citywide Anti-Gang Strategy. I strongly believe that this audit is among the most important I will conduct.

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Watching New York City's Check Book

Gene Russianoff | Posted 05.25.2011

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Gene Russianoff

As an advocate in New York City for three decades, I have often been asked, "Where do my tax dollars go?" Now answers can be found at the Checkbook ...

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Controller's Audit Reveals City of Los Angeles Fails to Collect Hundreds of Millions of Dollars

Wendy Greuel | Posted 05.25.2011

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Wendy Greuel

The results of my latest audit about the City's billing and collections practices show that a critical part of City government is not working as it should.

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Making Cents of the IRS

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 05.25.2011

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Youth Radio -- Youth Media International

Originally published on Youthradio.org, the premier source for youth generated news throughout the globe. By: Denise Tejada & Nate Hadden In this t...

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Friday Talking Points [123] -- A Working Senate

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chris Weigant

The Senate has actually been dealing with many financial issues that will directly effect American consumers, and they've been doing so in an orderly way. You'd think this would be news.

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Ryan Grim

Fed Audit Bitterly Opposed By Treasury

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Treasury Department is vigorously opposed to a House-passed measure that would open the Federal Reserve to an audit by the Government Accountabili...

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Iraqi Police Contract Flaws Raise Questions About Afghan Effort

Posted 05.25.2011

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By Christine SpolarHuffington Post Investigative Fund In a report that offers lessons for the growing war in Afghanistan, the inspector general overs...

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IRS Auditors Stay Away If You Earn Less Than $200,000

AP | LARRY MARGASAK | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Want to keep IRS auditors away? Keep your earnings under $200,000 and they won't bother you 99 percent of the time. IRS enforcemen...

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Rachel Porcaro: Mother Making $10 An Hour Told She Was Too Poor For Seattle In IRS Audit

Danny Westneat | Danny Westneat | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rachel Porcaro knows she's hardly rich. When you're a single mom making 10 bucks an hour, you don't need government experts to tell you how broke you ...

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The Fed Under Fire (VIDEO)

Harry Hanbury | Posted 05.25.2011

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Harry Hanbury

As details emerge of how the Fed secretly doled out more than a trillion dollars during the financial crisis, a rare bipartisan movement in Congress demands that the Fed be held accountable.

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Audit the Books!!!

Rep. Jim Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rep. Jim Cooper

The first thing Obama should do to get the economy back on track is publicize the financial record of the Bush Administration. Every business knows that "if you can't measure it, you can't manage it."

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Friday Talking Points [35] -- Tim Russert Memorial Edition

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chris Weigant

Nobody seriously annoyed me this week, but I will launch a pre-emptive finger-wagging, to anyone on the left who can't resist the urge to be disrespectful of Tim Russert's memory right now.

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