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WASHINGTON — As America's road planners struggle to find the cash to mend a crumbling highway system, many are beginning to see a solution in a little black box that fits neatly by the dashboard of your car. The devices, which track every mile a motorist drives and transmit that information to bureaucrats, are at the center of a controversial attempt in Washington and state planning offices to overhaul the outdated system for funding America's major roads.

Today is Tax Freedom Day in America. The Tax Foundation says the average American at last has earned enough this year to pay his local, state and federal "be-thankful-I-don't-take-it-all" taxmen. Starting today, he's working for no one but himself. Until Jan. 1, when he becomes a government employee again, except without the oversized paycheck, pension and abormally low productivity expectations. That said, the Connecticut taxpayer isn't your average American. No, his Tax Freedom Day is still 18 days off, two days after New Jersey and four days after New York. Connecticut is bringing up the taxpaying rear for the 13th...

The March 2005 Budget moved Tax Freedom Day later by 3 days, from 27 May (revised figure) in 2004, to 31 May in 2005. This is actually an increase of three days because 2004 was a leap year. So we get three days more of the year that we have to work for the government, rather than for ourselves.

Increase of 2.8 cents a gallon will begin Jan. 1 -- the biggest one-time jump in nearly 20 years, the N.C. Department of Revenue told the Observer Thursday. The latest tax increase, to 29.9 cents a gallon, will push North Carolina from having the nation's eighth-highest state gas tax to the sixth. "They're imposing a higher tax when the pain will be getting worse," said Mark Cooper, research director for the Consumer Federation of America. Republican state lawmakers proposed capping the gas tax at 24.6 cents to ease the pain of pump prices that passed $3 after Hurricanes Katrina and...

U.S. Court of Appeals Rules IRS Cannot Apply Force Against A Tax Payer Without A Court Order Tax Payers Free To Ignore An IRS Summons Queensbury, NY – On January 25, 2005, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that taxpayers cannot be compelled by the IRS to turn over personal and private property to the IRS, absent a federal court order. Quoting from the decision (Schulz v. IRS, Case No. 04-0196-cv), “...absent an effort to seek enforcement through a federal court, IRS summonses apply no force to taxpayers, and no consequence whatever can befall a taxpayer...

America to Celebrate Tax Freedom Day®2002 on April 27, Two Days Earlier than in 2001 State Tax Freedom Days Vary from Alaska’s April 8 to Connecticut's May 14Washington, D.C., April 10, 2002 - America can celebrate Tax Freedom Day® on April 27, 2002. That is two days earlier than in 2001 and four days earlier than in 2000. In a new report, Tax Foundation Special Report No. 112, “America Celebrates Tax Freedom Day,” economists Scott Moody and David Hoffman explain why the overall tax burden has been trending down the last two years, pushing Tax Freedom Day back into April,...