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The IRS and many unhappy returns
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 07, 2025
TheIRSwields immense power over the financial lives of Americans, yet recent revelations highlight it would be wise to question an expansion of that a...
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IRS employees owe $50 million
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 14, 2024
Nearly 6,000 Internal Revenue Service employees and contractors owe $50 million in overdue taxes, according to a federal audit published in July. The ...
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IRS buys software it won’t use
Opinion, Сolumns
Jun 07, 2024
The IRS has never been the most popular government agency, but a new audit report says their customer service is so poor it could lead to tax returns ...
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IRS keeps same old stripes
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 10, 2023
Congressional Democrats last year showered the IRS with $80 billion in new funding in an effort to close an estimated $600 billion “tax gap,” the diff...
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Pa. House puts kibosh on leases
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 04, 2022
A former local state representative once joked that he wisely kept his sparkling new state-leased vehicle out of sight in his home garage when he was ...
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Fixing IRS tax filing delays
Opinion, Сolumns
RACHEL GRESZLER 
Jan 21, 2022
With a massive backlog of unprocessed returns, staffing struggles and added work from extended pandemic programs, the IRS has warned taxpayers of impe...
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Pension system just got costlier
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 13, 2021
Taxpayers who contribute $5 billion a year toward the state government’s pension costs, and an amount equal to 34% of each school district’s payroll f...
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Round the Square for Feb. 19, 2018
Local News, News, Round the Square
Feb 19, 2018
SCAMS: People are always finding new ways to scam you. With tax season underway, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro is warning residents of IR...
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Why the state needs to increase taxes
Opinion, Сolumns
WALTER BRASCH 
Jan 14, 2017
Pennsylvanians are justifiably angry at paying the highest gas prices in the nation. The average price per gallon is $2.65, 27 cents higher than the h...
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Federal refunds delayed to Feb. 15
Local News, News
Nov 18, 2016
WASHINGTON —The Internal Revenue Service is reminding Pennsylvania taxpayers who claim the Earned Income Tax Credit or Additional Child Tax Credit to ...
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