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		<title>Reuters: Obama Welcomes Jobs Data, Urges Payroll Tax Cut</title>
		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama welcomed a stronger than expected December unemployment report on Friday and urged Congress to extend a payroll tax cut until the end of 2012 to help the country&#8217;s economic recovery maintain momentum.
&#8220;We&#8217;re making progress. We&#8217;re moving in the right direction. And one of the reasons for this is the tax cut for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IRS: $385 Billion Unpaid Taxes in ’06</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Internal Revenue Service estimates that U.S. companies and individuals failed to pay $385 billion in taxes they owed in 2006, an increase from $290 billion five years earlier.
The agency said the rate of compliance remained almost unchanged at 85.5 percent, down slightly from 86.3 percent in 2001. The IRS announcement today is the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democrats Abandon Millionaire Surtax Proposal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Democrats are abandoning their demand for a surtax on millionaires to help finance payroll tax cuts in a sign that lawmakers are trying to broker a compromise on Congress&#8217; highest-profile year-end dispute.
Even so, there is no clear path to quick bipartisan agreement on the legislation, which would prevent an automatic Social Security tax increase on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ILLINOIS SALES TAX NEWS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to a  recent report in the Huffington Post, Illinois ranks in only the eighth position of the top ten highest sales tax States in the United States.  That may come as a surprise to many residents of Cook County and perhaps even more of a surprise to residents of the City of Chicago where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Find top Tax Lawyers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TAX LAWYER DIRECTORY


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If you are in the need of civil or criminal tax attorney, check out the Tax Attorney Directory for top tax lawyers. 
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		<title>LA Mayor Tests ‘Third Rail’ in Call for Proposition 13 Changes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa proposed dismantling California’s Proposition 13, which helped begin a nationwide anti-tax movement, in favor of a “grand bargain” that would boost levies on business property.
The Democrat who leads California’s largest city called on Governor Jerry Brown not to shrink from making sweeping changes in state tax laws that Villaraigosa, 58, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IRS: Aug. 31 Deadline Is Second Special Voluntary Disclosure Initiative of Offshore Accounts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[U.S. taxpayers hiding income in undisclosed offshore accounts are running out of time to take advantage of a soon-to-expire opportunity to come forward and get their taxes current with the Internal Revenue Service.
The IRS today reminded taxpayers that the 2011 Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Initiative (OVDI) will expire on Aug. 31, 2011. Taxpayers who come forward [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.taxlitigation.net/taxlaw/irs-aug-31-deadline-is-second-special-voluntary-disclosure-initiative-of-offshore-accounts/</link>
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		<title>Tax Deadlines For 2010 Deaths? IRS Finally Issues Guidance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On August 5, 2011, the IRS published long-awaited guidance for executors of estates of people who died in 2010. Notice 2011-66 explains how these executors can opt out of the estate tax, and Revenue Procedure 2011-41 explains the special tax rules that apply to assets when executors opt out of the estate tax.
The estate tax [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.taxlitigation.net/taxlaw/tax-deadlines-for-2010-deaths-irs-finally-issues-guidance/</link>
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		<title>Amazon Gather Anti-Sales Tax Signatures Outside Retail Stores</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Amazon.com Inc. is giving bricks-and-mortar retailers yet another reason to fume.
As the online giant begins its quest to overturn a new California law requiring it to collect sales taxes just like its Main Street competitors, it&#8217;s sending signature gatherers to popular shopping areas to obtain the 500,000-plus signatures it needs to get the measure on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Signs Debt Bill Into Law, Signals Tax Reform</title>
		<description><![CDATA[THE SIX-MONTH-long crisis over US debt ended yesterday when President Barack Obama signed into law a Bill raising the debt ceiling by $900 billion, just hours before the US would have defaulted on its $14.3 trillion debt.
There was little enthusiasm for the deal among US congressmen. The Senate nonetheless passed the Bill by a vote [...]]]></description>
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