He has fired 15 tax-office employees and launched a top-to-bottom investigation of the division.
But campaigners who opposed the original application a year ago fear renewed efforts to target the area now that Mr Osborne has announced tax incentives - and the creation of a new government office - for shale gas.
The long-run data from the Congressional Budget Office shows that the federal tax burden over the next 70-plus years will jump to more than 30 percent of GDP.
While serving as head of TNK-BP, Bob Dudley - now the head of BP as a whole - had his office bugged and raided by the police and met with onerous back-tax demands, legal action and visa problems.
The head of the IRS tax-exempt office has said the practice was started in a branch office in Cincinnati, Ohio, where most of the applications were processed, and was not motivated by political bias.
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The IRS said the decision to flag certain groups was made by employees at its Cincinnati office, which oversees most tax-exempt organizations.
DC, have done before him: an agency called the Office of Government Ethics approves tax-exempt sales by quite a few people each year (but does not disclose the number).
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But Twitter will probably follow the example of other technology companies, basing its corporate headquarters in Dublin to take advantage of the tax rate (then hiring back-office staff) and setting up another branch in London where it can tap into a wider pool of folks who are highly skilled in software development.
Week of April 22: White House counsel learns that the inspector general is finishing a report about the IRS office in Cincinnati, which handles tax-exempt applications, according to White House spokesman Jay Carney.
The chancellor is setting up an Office for Tax Simplification to streamline the 11, 000-page tax code.
The IRS Cincinnati office handles applications from around the country for tax-exempt status.
With prices falling, even inert money in the bank or post office earned, in real terms, a small tax-free return.
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The Home Office said personal tax liability as a result of being re-employed was a matter for the individual and their employer.
Incredibly, back in 1995, when the GOP took over both houses of Congress for the first time in 40 years, Republicans spurned the opportunity to reform tax-scoring methods at the Congressional Budget Office, fearing that brighter revenue estimates would undermine their efforts to reduce spending.
In some editions, a Weekend Investor article Saturday about Mitt Romney's tax return incorrectly said the percentage of the sales price attributable to the home office wouldn't be eligible for the income-tax exclusion.
Michigan's Democrats still remember 1983, when two Democratic state senators were thrown out of office after a roll-call vote on the state income tax.
They need to extend the tuition tax credit that we put in place when I first came into office that saves middle-class families thousands of dollars.
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After taking office in 1993, President Clinton virtually eliminated the capital gains tax from the sale of owner-occupied homes and cut government spending as a share of GDP by the largest amount ever.
When Reagan took office in 1981, he proposed a 10 percent across-the-board personal income tax cut each year for three years.
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Tymoshenko, a fierce rival of president Victor Yanukovych, is serving a seven-year jail sentence for abuse of office and faces another trial on tax evasion charges.
Last year, my office was able to file an indictment against an identity-theft ring for submitting phony tax returns in the names of more than 300 victims.
Ms Tymoshenko, a former prime minister and key rival of Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovych, is serving a seven-year jail sentence for abuse of office and faces another trial on tax evasion charges.
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For all Mr Giuliani's boasts of being a tax-cutting mayor, he has done little more than tinker during his years in office.
Previously, I served as Deputy Assistant Secretary (Tax Analysis) at the Treasury Department from 1998-2000 and spent nearly a decade at the Congressional Budget Office.
Olson has made combating tax-related identity theft her top priority, as the number of stolen identity cases her office identified rose 644% in the past three years.
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"If the tax office hadn't called, I wouldn't be where I am now, " laughs the 33-year-old, now president of Plaza Create, Japan's largest photo-processing chain, with over 800 shops.
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