According to the Treasury Department's inspector general for tax administration, 15.4 million taxpayers may unexpectedly owe Uncle Sam money for tax year 2009 because in connection with the Making Work Pay Credit, enacted as part of last year's stimulus bill, Congress ordered withholding rates reduced.

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Taxpayers can call the Internal Revenue Service for general guidance on tax return filing questions.

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Indeed, the anti-tax California Taxpayers Association says that the General Fund (which accounts for four-fifths of the total budget) can be balanced merely by restraining the growth in spending to 4.2%.

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The police precept is part of the general council tax bill, and is the amount council taxpayers pay for police services.

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When it came to the general question of who should pay to protect the coast, 60 percent of the public said it should be paid for by local property owners and businesses, not the general taxpayers.

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The number of federal individual income tax returns examined by the Internal Revenue Service has continuously increased over the past five years, with 1 out of every 90 taxpayers examined in fiscal year 2010, according to a statistical report released today by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

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