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September-11

I’ll take the ticket without extra taxes, please…

5 September 2007

Oh, if it were only that easy. Airlines fee and tax you to death these days.
Have a look:
For domestic flights, there is an “excise” tax of 7.5% of the fare. You’ll see this amount on your bill because the Department of Transportation (DOT) requires airlines to include that tax in advertised fares. [...]

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When You Allegedly Cheat on Taxes, the Terrorists Win

30 May 2007

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September 11, 2001 has been linked to a number of criminal activities and now we can add tax fraud to the list.
The Internal Revenue Service has announced that Robert Coplan, a former IRS lawyer, and Martin Nissenbaum, Richard Shapiro, and Brian Vaughn, partners in the accounting firm of Ernst & Young, have been [...]

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