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Over the weekend, while most of us powered through a collective turkey coma, the Cook County assessor’s office engaged in an entertaining Twitter exchange with a taxpayer who joked about her property tax payment.
“My banking app just flagged my Cook County property tax payment as ‘possible theft or fraud’ and they really do not know...
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This relates to digging into details on bailing out and reforming multiemployer pension plans.
One of the biggest issues is that unionization has dropped, and that means pension plans that were designed assuming growing membership over time has made those particular systems fragile.
Basic unionization data can be gotten here, and...
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The following story popped up in my twitter feed:
Ex-Chicago police commander spared prison for collecting dead mom’s Social Security checks for years
Before I start quoting the story, let me fix that headline:
Ex-Chicago police commander spared prison for collecting dead mom’s Social Security checks for over 23 years
That’s better. I...
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Wooooo.
Man, those tax stories just piled off while I was “gone”, didn’t they?
Let’s get to it.
HOW MUCH MORE COULD BE COLLECTED IF AUDITS WERE INCREASED?
There’s a report out claiming that if only the IRS hopped to it, way more money could...
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I just received a press release: Grassley, Alexander Release Plan to Shore Up Failing Multiemployer Pension System
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), chairmen of the Senate Finance and Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committees respectively, today released a proposal to avert the collapse...
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