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The Irish loophole behind Apple's low tax bill
ReutersLONDON (Reuters) - Apple's ability to shelter billions of dollars of income from tax has depended on an unusual loophole in the Irish tax code that helps the country compete with other countries for investment and jobs. A U.S. Senate investigation...Tags: Republic of Ireland, U.S. Congress, Government, Personal Income, U.S. Senate
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FACTBOX-Four key questions in the unfolding IRS scandal
ReutersWASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) - U.S. Congressional and Justice Department investigators are examining the Internal Revenue Service over its inappropriate scrutiny of conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status. President Barack Obama, seeking...Tags: Lawyers, U.S. Congress, Tea Party Movement, Parties and Movements, Internal Revenue Service
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Tax official at center of scandal won't testify: lawyer
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lois Lerner, the Internal Revenue Service official at the center of a scandal about the targeting of conservative groups for extra tax scrutiny, plans to assert her constitutional right not to answer questions from a congressional...Tags: Lawyers, Zuckerman Spaeder LLP, Internal Revenue Service, Criminals, Dominique Strauss-Kahn
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GOP questions IRS scrutiny of anti-abortion groups
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — When a small anti-abortion group in Iowa sought nonprofit status, the IRS asked its board to promise not to organize protests outside Planned Parenthood and demanded to know how its prayer meetings and protest signs were...
Tags: Abortion, Planned Parenthood, Tea Party Movement, Chuck Grassley, Family Planning
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Financial oversight panel to approve Baltimore property tax credit
A Baltimore oversight panel is expected to approve an additional property tax credit Wednesday for city homeowners. The tax break — known as the Targeted Homeowners' Tax Credit and based on the assessed value of improved property — will...
Tags: Politics, Credit and Debt, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
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Rep. Issa tested by the spotlight
WASHINGTON — During the 2010 campaign, Rep. Brad Sherman, a Democrat from Sherman Oaks, joked, "Every time I try to encourage the White House to do more to help us elect Democrats to the House of Representatives, I send them a picture of Darrell...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Government, Parties and Movements, Democratic Party, Tom Davis
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Doyle McManus: Second-term scandal plague catches up to Obama
What is it about presidents' second terms that makes them seem so scandal-ridden? Simple: The iron law of longevity. All governments make mistakes, and all governments try to hide those mistakes. But the longer an administration is in office, the more...Tags: U.S. Congress, Parties and Movements, Bill Clinton, White House, Politics
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McManus: Obama's IRS choice
Message to the president: Resistance is futile. There are plenty of juicy targets for investigators in the IRS scrutiny of conservative organizations that applied for tax-exempt status, but the most dangerous for President Obama is this: Did bureaucrats...
Tags: Lawyers, U.S. Congress, Internal Revenue Service, George W. Bush, U.S. Department of the Treasury
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IRS' last two commissioners deny lying; official to take the 5th
WASHINGTON — As the Internal Revenue Service's last two directors struggled to provide answers Tuesday about the agency's improper scrutiny of conservative groups, a lawyer for another key IRS official said she would invoke the 5th Amendment...Tags: John Cornyn, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Lawyers, Tea Party Movement, U.S. Congress
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IRS officials still don't have full explanation of targeting
WASHINGTON – The outgoing head of the IRS said the agency still doesn’t know which staff members were responsible for using politically loaded language to screen out nonprofit groups, as senators pressed them to explain how certain...Tags: John Cornyn, Barack Obama, Tea Party Movement, U.S. Congress, Internal Revenue Service
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Lew: IRS acted alone in planted question about targeting Tea Party
ReutersWASHINGTON, May 21 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said on Tuesday that Internal Revenue Service employees acted alone in making public the agency's handling of tax exemptions for Tea Party groups and that he would have advised against it....Tags: Tea Party Movement, Internal Revenue Service, Politics
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IRS' Miller says planting question on tax targeting was bad idea
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The outgoing head of the Internal Revenue Service took responsibility on Tuesday for his agency's decision to expose its political targeting scandal by planting a question in the audience at a tax conference. Acting IRS...Tags: Politics, Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Department of the Treasury
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