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11 Potentially Life Changing Year End Tax Strategies

28 December 2011

2011 is coming to a close which means that year end tax strategies are on the minds of many taxpayers. We all know the most common tips (pay mortgages in advance, make contributions to retirement accounts, donate to charities) but what about those outside of the box? It’s true that you can engage in life [...]

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Sarah Palin Emails Show Discord Over Oil Tax

12 June 2011

This week, the big political news (other than the continuing saga of Weiner-gate) was the release of Sarah Palin’s emails. The emails – about 24,000 of them – were distributed by state of Alaska in response to Freedom of Information Act requests filed by news organizations during the 2008 presidential race. To be fair, I [...]

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Southern States Have Highest Percentages of Non-Paying Tax Filers

24 May 2010

Remember this article (and this one) about the numbers of non-paying tax filers? Today, the Tax Foundation released a series of groupings of IRS data showing the breakdown of non-paying tax filers. You can see the results by the numbers here. The Tax Foundation also released the data as a graph: The red-colored states are [...]

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Alaska Hopes to Woo Cruise Ships With Tax Break

21 March 2010

Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell (R) has announced plans to lower the state’s head tax on cruise-ship passengers by about $12. It’s not simply out of the goodness of his heart: he wants major cruise lines to send more ships to Alaska. Parnell walked into a firestorm of criticism last week when he attended a cruise [...]

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Palin Rejects Federal Stimulus Funds in Alaska

22 March 2009

Following in the footsteps of a handful of other governors, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has indicated that she will take only 55% of the federal economic stimulus money being offered to Alaska. If that sounds like fiscal responsibility, don’t get too excited. Per capita, Alaska already receives more federal funding than any other state in [...]

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State Tax Primer from A to W: Alaska

12 November 2008

Welcome to my second in a series on state taxes! For information about what I’m trying to do, read my introductory bit. Next on the agenda: Alaska! ALASKA Population: 683,478 (47th) Capital: Juneau Largest City: Anchorage Gross Domestic Product: $160 billion GDP per capita: $43,748 (7th) 2004 election winner: George W. Bush web site: http://www.alaska.gov/ [...]

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