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August 16th, 2008

Cell Phone Tax Continues to Generate Publicity

I received a lot of feedback via email and twitter on the story that I posted about the IRS stance on taxing employee cell phone use. Yesterday, I was advised that NPR ran a story about this very issue on Thursday. While I didn’t hear the story on the radio, I did read […]

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June 1st, 2008

Apparently, IRS Employees Have Nothing To Do…

An Internal Revenue Service tax examiner was arrested this week on charges that he used IRS records to examine personal information of celebrities (and his neighbor).
John Snyder, an IRS tax examiner based in Kentucky, is charged with looking up personal information for 197 celebs. Exactly which celebrities merited such prying by Snyder? The […]

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October 27th, 2007

Blackwater Leaks

Okay, not really leaks but it made for a clever headline.
The Swamp has published a letter that Senator John Kerry (D - MA) wrote to the Senate Committee on Finance regarding the possibility that Blackwater has misclassified employees for tax purposes. The letter follows:
October 26, 2007
The Honorable Max Baucus
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June 29th, 2007

iPhone, uTax?

Working at Apple just got a little sweeter, it seems.
Apple has announced that it is giving free iPhones to all 18,000 of its employees, at a cost of over $10 million to the company. Each of the models is worth about $600.
Cool, right?
The new phones are set to be distributed to employees […]

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