Financial Guru To Start Prison Term - Seattle Times former financial guru wade cook, convicted of federal tax fraud, was arrested thursday, according to u.s. attorney's office spokeswoman emily langlie. he is headed to prison to begin serving his sentence of seven years and four months. in february ... seattletimes.nwsource.com
Irs Seeks Prichard, Ala., City Attorney's Tax Records the internal revenue service has asked a federal judge in mobile to order prichard city attorney willie huntley jr. to "fully obey" a summons directing him to turn over his personal income tax records for 2005 and 2006. www.al.com
Su Lawyer Says No Way To Township Amusement Tax a lawyer for shippensburg university says the university will go to court rather than cooperate in the collection of an amusement tax adopted in shippensburg township. www.cumberlink.com
Sullivan Seeks Hike In Litigation Tax - Tricities.com sullivan county, tenn., officials are seeking to raise the county’s litigation tax by $10 in order to expand their courtroom security efforts further. the increase, which would raise the tax from $25 to $35, is contained in a resolution coming ... www.tricities.com
Prosecutors Want To Jail Ex-attorney, Wife - Muskogee Daily Phoenix if federal prosecutors get their way, a former tahlequah attorney and his wife will be headed to jail for allegedly impeding the government’s attempt to collect back taxes from them. the federal government has sought financial records from nathan ... www.muskogeephoenix.com
Tax Appeals Expected To Double a wonder lake man hit with what he considers to be an unfair property tax bill has taken it upon himself to educate thousands of mchenry county homeowners on the subtleties of the assessment appeal process. www.nwherald.com
Sullivan Seeks Hike In Litigation Tax sullivan county, tenn., officials are seeking to raise the county’s litigation tax by $10 in order to expand their courtroom security efforts further. www.tricities.com
Tax Cap Vote Postponed - Concord Monitor concord city councilors voted last night not to place a proposed tax cap on the november ballot. instead, councilors decided to postpone action on the matter until officials in the attorney general's office, the secretary of state's office and the ... www.concordmonitor.com
City Wins Steeplegate Tax Appeal - Concord Monitor the city of concord charged steeplegate mall $24,000 more than it should have for its 2004 property taxes - not the $217,000 more that mall officials had claimed, according to a recent court ruling. an additional $650,000 could still be at stake in ... www.concordmonitor.com
City Council To Set Rate For Property Tax with city council approval, the city's mill levy rate for 2008-09 will increase by 6.23 mills, thanks to a planned increase in the public-safety levy. that means the owner of a $200,000 home will get a city tax bill that is about $20 higher ... www.billingsgazette.net
Tax Chairman Rangel Failed To Report Income house rep. charles rangel, chairman of the tax-writing ways and means committee, failed to report $75,000 of income from a villa he owns in the dominican republic, his attorney said on friday. news.yahoo.com
Creek Smoke Shops Skirting Rules Email This Page Print This Page - Indian Country Today tulsa, okla. (ap) - the oklahoma tax commission has launched an investigation into whether the osage nation is using a loophole in a new tobacco rule to supply low-tax cigarettes to muscogee (creek)-affiliated smoke shops, according to a published ... www.indiancountry.com
City Employees Accused In Mortgage Scheme - Detroit News detroit -- a former detroit police officer and a city appraiser are among three defendants named in a $2.1 million mortgage fraud and real estate "flipping" indictment announced friday by the u.s. attorney's office in detroit. more than 35 detroit ... www.detnews.com
Attorney Charged With Failing To File Tax Returns a shreveport attorney has been indicted on charges he failed to file federal income tax returns for three straight years. gordon blackman jr. , 50, was charged by the federal grand jury in shreveport with three counts of failing to file income tax returns. he is scheduled to be arraigned www.ktbs.com
Tax Bills Prove Embarrassing For Some Public Officials two high-ranking county officials, the district attorney and the director of community development, appeared on a public web site this week among hundreds of others who didn't pay their property taxes last year. www.theunion.com
People On The Move - Business Ledger michael c. walther ii of balasa dinverno foltz llc, in itasca, has been chosen by “institutional investor news” as one of the “20 rising stars of wealth management for 2008.” roger schnorr has been named senior vice president/division manager ... www.thebusinessledger.com
Tax Bills Prove Embarrassing For Some Public Officials - Union two high-ranking county officials, the district attorney and the director of community development, appeared on a public web site this week among hundreds of others who didn’t pay their property taxes last year. the county is legally required to ... www.theunion.com
tax Attorney Charged In Prostitution Case the manhattan da's office on thursday announced the indictment of a tax lawyer for allegedly promoting prostitution. prosecutors claim solo practitioner louis posner and his wife ran an unlicensed strip club at which dancers offered to have paid sex with customers, including undercover police officers. biz.yahoo.com
West Slope Group Makes U-turn On Tax Proposal an influential western colorado lobbying group has done an about-face and is opposing a plan to invest oil and gas tax revenues for road and bridge projects. cbs4denver.com
2 Battle For Democratic Line In Nov. Ballot - Poughkeepsie Journal democrats in the 102nd state assembly district will choose tuesday between gary levine, 53, an attorney, and jonathan smith, 31, a grassroots political activist, to appear on the november ballot. the winner of tuesday's democratic primary election ... www.poughkeepsiejournal.com