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12 Days of Charitable Giving: Hope for the Warriors

30 December 2011

Our ninth charitable organization is Hope for the Warriors. The organization was founded in 2006 by a group of military wives to support wounded U.S. service members, their families, and families of the fallen. The mission of the organization is “to enhance quality of life for U.S. service members and their families nationwide who have [...]

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DC Offers Tax Amnesty

16 August 2010

It’s a tough economy all over these days. It’s not just the feds struggling to raise revenue – state and local governments are facing the same challenges. Ideas abound for plugging holes in the budget, including raising tax rates to implementing new taxes on everything from soda to legal services. Some governments, however, have decided [...]

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DC Considers Hike in Gas Tax

27 July 2009

Cities are getting mighty creative in their efforts to fight rising deficits. No run of the mill income/wage/salary/vocation tax increases here. Philadelphia wants to raise its sales tax; Oakland is taxing marijuana and now DC is considering raising… its gas tax? DC Council Member Tommy Wells (D) has suggested a gas tax hike of 3.5 [...]

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DC Tax Thief Saga Nearly At End

12 May 2009

Harriette Walters was living the good life – but it was on the dime of the tax payers. Literally. Walters was the tax assessments manager for the District of Columbia. So she “worked” for the government. Only she didn’t really work. Instead, she recruited 10 other people in what is being called the “largest fraud [...]

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DC Residents Get an Inauguration Tax Break

20 January 2009

DC residents may have had to put up with lost tourists crowding the Metro during the Inauguration but they do get a little bit of a break. The District of Columbia Office of Tax and Revenue (OTR) had previously announced that sales tax on property rentals during Inauguration festivities would be suspended. This applies to [...]

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