Intuit has reached a deal to acquire Credit Karma, a company known for offering free credit score checks. The acquisition gives Intuit — which owns TurboTax, Quickbooks, and Mint — another set of consumer-oriented financial products. It also knocks out a potentially serious competitor: Credit Karma has been offering free tax filing services since 2017, […]
NEW DELHI: Telecom companies swamped by adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues are set for another hammering. The tax authorities have started sending out notices for service tax and goods and services tax (GST) on the unpaid AGR dues. Notices for paying 15% service tax for the period before the GST regime came into effect and […]
This comes after the outgoing Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev announced the resignation of the government. The head of the Russian Federal Tax Service Mikhail Mishustin has accepted President Putin’s proposal to become the country’s new prime minister, a statement by the Kremlin press service said. The State Duma, the lower chamber of the Russian […]
NEW CASTLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Henry County leaders are weighing the possibility of adding a new tax for residents to offset the rising costs of ambulance service in the county. The tax increase would come in the form of the creation of a special ambulance taxing district in the rural county northeast of Louisville. According […]
NORFOLK, Va. – A North Carolina woman was sentenced Monday to nearly five years in prison for her role in a conspiracy to prepare false tax returns for her customers. Court documents say that 32-year-old Markita D. Simon, was the manager of a now-closed, Virginia Beach-based tax preparation service known as Express Tax Preparation Services. […]
NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — A North Carolina woman who managed a now-closed Virginia Beach-based tax service is facing nearly five years in prison for her role in a conspiracy to prepare false tax returns for her customers. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for Eastern Virginia said in a news release 32-year-old Markita D. Simon, of Rocky […]
Minnesota Department of Transportation Commissioner Margaret Anderson Kelliher is proposing a combination gas tax increase and debt service fee that would raise gas prices anywhere from 13 to 15 cents per gallon to pay for badly needed transportation improvements. Kelliher talked about her idea during a visit to Rochester. She said the fee would be […]
Clean Car Minnesota Initiative Minnesota Department of Transportation Commissioner Margaret Anderson-Kelliher is pushing a combined gas-tax increase along with what she’s calling a “debt-service fee” that would raise fuel prices by up to 15 cents per gallon, according to interviews with local news outlets. Anderson-Kelliher did back-to-back interviews with the Rochester Post-Bulletin and the Mankato Free Press in September […]
Amendments to the state constitution that would make it harder to enact a state income tax, stabilize funding for state parks and allow retired law enforcement animals to be adopted by their handlers received wide support from voters Tuesday. Supporters of one of the most contentious issues on the ballot — Proposition 4 — proclaimed […]
To be honest, when I first read about the new ride-hail tax Mayor Lori Lightfoot is proposing, my impression was that the plan doesn’t have enough teeth for improving transit service. There was one phrase that really stuck out to me. About $2 million from the estimated $40 million the fees will raise will be earmarked […]