by taxnick on January 23, 2010
Few places have felt the twin challenges presented by Oregon’s broken state budget and its knotted tax system the way this old farm town has.
acing $3 million in state cuts and no way to raise money, the school district here cut back to a four-day week last fall. Teachers cram in curriculum. Parents juggle child [...]
by taxnick on January 23, 2010
IN the digital age, filing income tax returns should be a snap. The important data from employers and financial institutions have already been sent to the government’s computers. Yet taxpayers are still required to perform the anachronistic chore of preparing a return from scratch. And, in many cases, they pay a software company for the [...]