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WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service announced today that the federal income tax filing due date for individuals for the 2020 tax year will be automatically extended from April 15, 2021, to May 17, 2021. The IRS will be providing formal guidance in the coming days. "This continues to be a tough time for many people, and the IRS wants to continue to do everything possible to help taxpayers navigate the unusual circumstances related to the pandemic, while also working on important tax administration responsibilities," said IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig. "Even with the new deadline, we urge...

Preliminary numbers show California's personal income tax collections were about $1 billion short of Gov. Jerry Brown's projections during the pivotal month of April.

Politico wonders why the GOP wants Americans to work “all the time,” using the recent CBO projection that ObamaCare will reduce the workforce by 2.5 million over the next 10 years as a springboard. The article’s author, university professorBenjamin Kline Hunnicut, wrote that Republican reaction to the CBO projection was predictable: “Pundits filled the airwaves, Cassandra-like, to paint ObamaCare as the ultimate job killer. Never mind that, reading the fine print, it’s clear the CBO was talking about workers voluntarily reducing their hours in response to the law—not getting laid off or seeing their shifts scaled back.” Hunnicut then asked: “Anyway, isn’t...

Why is it no one in the orbits of Congress ever says, you know( imitating Caroline Kennedy here) why don't we just do away with the idiotic CAFE rules and while we are at it, why not dump the equally stupid 'gasoline blends' crappola? Don't you think any blithering idiot can figure out how much they can afford to pay for a car and the fuel to run it? I would also suggest that any first year engineering student could advise you that trying to get that last one percent out of the air pollution equation is going to be...