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Mark Zuckerberg May Cover Taxes By Selling $1.67 Billion in Facebook Stock

Mark Zuckerberg May Cover Taxes By Selling $1.67 Billion in Facebook Stock

Mark Zuckerberg will face taxes of around $1.67 billion when he inevitably exercises options to buy 120 million shares in Facebook. What's a mere multi-millionnaire to do? Well, many pundits expect the 27-year-old CEO to sell back about ... continue
Oklahoma lawmakers wants to tax any games with an ESRB of ‘Teen’ or above

Oklahoma lawmakers wants to tax any games with an ESRB of ‘Teen’ or above

Having been in this tech industry for 20 plus years I am no longer surprised when I read about lawmakers who, with little or no knowledge of what they are seeking legislate try to control video games ... continue
Mitt Romney Tax Return Released: He Pays In A Lower Tax Bracket Than Poor People

Mitt Romney Tax Return Released: He Pays In A Lower Tax Bracket Than Poor People

GOP Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney released his tax returns following the first of two GOP debates in Florida and as suspected his tax rate is lower than that of many poor and middle class Americans. In 2011 Mitt ... continue
Warren Buffett Says Congress, Not Romney is to Blame For Tax Rate, Defends GOP Contender

Warren Buffett Says Congress, Not Romney is to Blame For Tax Rate, Defends GOP Contender

Lest you think Warren Buffett is a self-hating Richie Rich, the sympathetic billionaire- who has long decried that he himself pays a far lower tax rate than many of his employees- has actually stepped in to defend ... continue
Newt Gingrich Paid Nearly $1 Million In Taxes During 2010

Newt Gingrich Paid Nearly $1 Million In Taxes During 2010

Just minutes before the televised Republican presidential debate began on Thursday night GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich released his tax returns, showing that he paid $994,708 in federal taxes in 2010. The tax return shows that Gingrich paid ... continue
IRS Extends Tax Deadline, Gives Filers Slightly More Time

IRS Extends Tax Deadline, Gives Filers Slightly More Time

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced on Wednesday that they have extended the traditional last day for filing taxes. According to the agency tax filers now have until April 17 to file before the tax deadline ends. The ... continue
House Says No Thanks To Senate Payroll Tax Deal

House Says No Thanks To Senate Payroll Tax Deal

WASHINGTON, DC - House Republicans on Tuesday rejected a payroll tax deal that would have extended the payroll tax holiday for two months, saving money for more than 160 million Americans heading into 2012. Instead House Reps. ... continue
Where’s My Tax Refund? 100,000 Taxpayers Still Owed $153 Million in Tax Refunds

Where’s My Tax Refund? 100,000 Taxpayers Still Owed $153 Million in Tax Refunds

Are you missing your tax refund? If you are, you aren't the only one. The IRS still has more than $150 million in tax refunds that it hasn't been able to deliver to taxpayers. CNN reports that 99,123 taxpayers ... continue
Millionaires Take To Capitol Hill, Beg Congress To Tax Them More [Video]

Millionaires Take To Capitol Hill, Beg Congress To Tax Them More [Video]

A group of millionaires banned together on Wednesday to ask Congressional leaders to tax them more. Two dozen wealthy Americans approached members of the deficit "Supercommittee" and begged to have their taxes increased. Testifying at a congressional hearing in ... continue
Ai Weiwei Will Fight $2 Million Tax Charge

Ai Weiwei Will Fight $2 Million Tax Charge

Ai Weiwei, a famous and outspoken Chinese artist, has just been ordered to pay the government $2.4 million in back taxes. Weiwei, who was detained for nearly three months earlier this year, said that he doesn't plan ... continue
Obama To Unveil “Buffett Rule” On Monday, Target Higher Taxes For Rich People

Obama To Unveil “Buffett Rule” On Monday, Target Higher Taxes For Rich People

Billionaire investor Warren Buffet recently argued that rich people are not paying enough taxes and in that spirit President Obama on Monday is expected to roll out the "Buffett Rule" a new tax plan that will create ... continue
Mooncake Tax Proposal Rocks Chinese Citizens

Mooncake Tax Proposal Rocks Chinese Citizens

  Maybe China needs its own Tea Party- many of the country's citizens are getting a bit steamed over a proposed new tax on Mooncakes- a traditional gift from employers to workers for a yearly festival. While Tea Parties ... continue
Obama Motorcade Fined In London, US Embassy Now Owes $8 Million In Fines

Obama Motorcade Fined In London, US Embassy Now Owes $8 Million In Fines

President Obama took his motorcade through the Central part of London recently and now London Mayor Boris Johnson wants him to pay fines totaling £120 ($195) after the President failed to pay a £10 ($16) congestion levy. The ... continue
Least Free State in the US is New York, According to Study

Least Free State in the US is New York, According to Study

Research conducted at George Mason University's Mercatus Center has found New York to be the "least free state in the Union" according to a set of criteria that weighs factors including individual freedoms and obligations to government, like ... continue
That person you friended just might be your friendly taxman

That person you friended just might be your friendly taxman

Don’t recognize the name of that person who just friended, or followed, you on Facebook, Twitter or MySpace? Well rather than just blindly accepting and returning the favor you may want to do some ... continue
Dutch government ignores its own Internet tax study – listens to the people

Dutch government ignores its own Internet tax study – listens to the people

According to Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten at TheNextWeb.com blog the Dutch government recently formed a special committee to come up with a course of action to save the Dutch newspaper industry. The main recommendation ... continue
New Yorker’s to be left bleeding by nickel & dime tax plan

New Yorker’s to be left bleeding by nickel & dime tax plan

Sure it’s hard to close a $15.4 billion budget gap but New York Governor Patterson seems to think that it’s time for digital downloaders to start paying their fair share of taxes. As part of his ... continue
Online Sales Stir Up Tax Debate

Online Sales Stir Up Tax Debate

A fierce debate's brewing over where internet-based companies should owe taxes, and Amazon is at the center of the fire. The net retailer is being investigated in Texas because even though its headquarters are in Seattle, it operates ... continue