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Texas Tornado Video: Truck Trailers Flying Through The Air

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IRS Makes Tax Exempt Checking Easier for Making Donations

From our sister Los Angeles Tax Lawyer site: The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has introduced a new online search apparatus called Exempt Organizations Select Check  to assist taxpayers and make it a much easier to find important information about tax-exempt … Continue reading

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IRS Tax Credit for Adoption of Child Gets Big Money Back to Taxpayers in 2012

Unfiled Tax credit story from TaxLawyersLosAngeles.org: The $13,000 adoption tax credit is back! An adoption tax credit that brought huge refunds to many unsuspecting families last year is back. Taxpayers can claim up to $13,360 for each child they have … Continue reading

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Pacquiao Tax Case : Manny Faces Back Tax Charges

Manny Pacquiao now faces an opponent bigger and stronger than anyone he’s ever faced- the Philippine tax revenue arm of the Philippine government. It appears now that the Philippine goverment tax collectors have been monitoring Pacquiao’s many reported business enterprises … Continue reading

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Tax Relief for Same Sex Domestic Partners

What are the salient tax relief issues confronting those taxpayers in a same-sex domestic partnerships? Logically speaking, not at all different from domestic partners of any sexual orientation but the specifics differ on a state-by-state basis. For example in California … Continue reading

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Obamacare Divides Americans Almost Evenly

Obamacare Divides Americans almost evenly. From Gallup: Americans divide evenly when asked if they favor (47%) or oppose (44%) a Republican president’s repealing the 2010 healthcare law if elected this November. Republicans overwhelmingly favor repeal (87%) and Democrats overwhelmingly oppose … Continue reading

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Poll:Romney And Santorum Match Up Favorably Against Obama Nationally

FROM GALLUP: U.S. registered voters are closely divided in their 2012 presidential election preferences between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, and between Obama and Rick Santorum. Romney is slightly ahead of Obama, 50% to 46%, while Obama edges Santorum, 49% … Continue reading

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Americans Dissatisfied With U.S. Position in World

Americans continue to express much greater dissatisfaction than satisfaction with the United States’ position in the world, and their views have improved little since hitting a low point in 2008. From 2000-2003, Americans were generally satisfied with the position of the … Continue reading

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Obama’s Low Economic Approval Rating Improving Incrementally

By 59% to 38%, more Americans continue to disapprove than approve of President Barack Obama’s handling of the economy. However, his approval rating on the economy is up from 30% in November after descending to a term-low 26% in August. … Continue reading

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Gallup: Americans’ Don’t Share Obama’s State Of The Union Assessments

Election 2012 is fully underway with Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney in full combat mode while President Obama has given his first televised major speech of in this election year. As the incumbent this time around, the President realizes that … Continue reading

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