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A Texas man who filed over two dozen challenges to former President Trump’s ballot eligibility was arrested Tuesday on charges alleging he filed 17 sets of false tax documents to the IRS. John Anthony Castro was indicted last week on 33 counts of aiding the preparation of false tax returns. Prosecutors claim he ran a virtual tax preparation business that provided customers with tax returns beyond what they were actually owed, defrauding the government. “Castro would promise a significantly higher refund than taxpayers could receive from other preparers and on many occasions, offered to split the additional refund with taxpayers,”...

New citizens group seeks tax rollback BY TRICIA CORTEZ Times staff writer Close to 100 angry taxpayers created a new organization Tuesday to launch a "multiple front strategy" to protest the increase in appraised values set on commercial and residential properties this year. The goal of Citizens United Toward Fair Assessments & Taxes, or CUT FAT, is to get elected officials at the city, county and school district levels to lower their respective tax rates during budget hearings this summer. This would offset the "over 100 percent increase in appraised values that some of us experienced this year," event organizer...