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The Supreme Court is taking up a dispute over how a state may tax income its residents earn in another state. The high court on Monday agreed to hear an appeal from Maryland officials who want to overturn a lower court ruling that found the state’s tax law unconstitutional. …

On March 22, 2012, IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman testified under oath before the House Oversight Committee, which was inquiring as to whether the agency was targeting tea-party groups and other conservative organizations filing for tax-exempt status. He firmly and repeatedly denied that any such thing was happening. “There’s absolutely no targeting,” he said. A little over a year later, the IRS confirmed that it was in fact improperly targeting not only tea-party groups but also Jewish religious nonprofits and organizations inspired by Glenn Beck’s 9/12 Project. Lori Lerner, the IRS official in charge of tax-exempt organizations, told reporters on Friday...

For 12 years I collected taxes for the federal government. I was a field officer, knocking on doors in every kind of neighborhood, from gated subdivision to dilapidated trailer park. I collected millions of dollars, some of it voluntarily repaid to the Treasury, some after a bit of friendly persuasion, and some only after I took something. A car. A boat. A house. There was no profile of your typical delinquent taxpayer in the thousands of cases I worked. White, black, rich, poor, young, old, sick, healthy . . . the only things they had in common were that they...

DENVER - 9News has learned that 43 states have joined together in a coalition to collect sales tax on all Internet purchases. You already pay sales tax when you go online to buy from an established business like Eddie Bauer or Wal-Mart. But a lot of small Internet businesses and individual transactions float under the radar.

<p>State tax collections are running almost $16 million below estimates this fiscal year, but state Finance Commissioner C. Warren Neel said yesterday he sees no cause for alarm.</p> <p>October revenues, which included new revenue collected under a $933 million tax package that raised consumer sales and business tax rates, were $26.2 million below estimates. The legislature approved the package July 3.</p>

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. The Internal Revenue Service so far has failed to find other jobs for many of the 2,700 employees in its Holtsville facility whose positions will be eliminated after next year, union officials said yesterday. This has prompted the agency to look at trimming 1,100 to 1,800 full-time and seasonal jobs in the facility, agency and union officials said. Despite promises in the spring that the IRS would try to avoid layoffs at its Holtsville facility, officials now say they will vacate the first floor of their main building - a workspace...