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03.02.2009 5:41 pm

More tax woes in the Obama cabinet

The Dallas Morning News reports that another Obama cabinet appointee has been negligent in paying all of his taxes.

Ron Kirk, the former Dallas mayor who was nominated to be the U.S. trade representative in the Obama administration, failed to pay taxes…

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09.21.2008 9:00 pm

Monday editorial: No hablo espanol

rangel_opt.jpg“As I’ve spent time basking in the sun on the beach at Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic, where I have a little house facing a big ocean, I’ve thought of telling God not to worry about me if it…

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09.18.2008 9:00 pm

Friday editorial: Expensive mistakes

tshirt_opt.jpgIn a recent experiment, the Treasury Department’s tax watchdogs tested the competence of a small sample of commercial income tax preparers. The result: The preparers made mistakes on two-thirds of the returns.

So why, it’s worth asking, do taxpayers pay preparers an average…

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08.14.2008 9:00 pm

Friday’s editorial: Ducking the IRS

ask_ap_opt.jpgIn 2005, corporate America turned a $1.6 trillion profit. Even by Sinatra standards, it was a very good year. Why, then, did 25 percent of large American corporations pay no income tax — zero — that year?
Taxpaying Americans — scraping to…

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