Switzerland has opened a money-laundering investigation into an account held by a Russian tax official named by Mr Browder.
But any such group receiving IRS missives is immediately going to become cautious, lest it risk the arbitrary wrath of some tax official.
"We have in the pipeline a proposal on internet commerce, but it is not commerce in the sense of distance selling of physical goods, " Commission tax official Stephen Bill said.
Burman, a Treasury tax official during the Clinton administration, cautioned the Obama administration against using the stimulus as a pretext to make either middle-class tax cuts or its proposed new refundable tax credits permanent.
Considering that and all the thousands of innocents often caught in the crossfire of the tax system, you may take particular pleasure in knowing that even a public tax official can have tax troubles.
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Tax expenditures distort our official data by reducing government tax revenues in the official scorekeeping, rather than being recorded in a manner consistent with their substance, as additional tax collections offset by government spending programs.
For families in high-tax states, it can raise their official 33% tax rate to an effective rate of 38%.
However, verification of the FAFSA may include double-checking official tax information with the Internal Revenue Service.
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These low rates are particularly shocking given that the official tax rate is 35%.
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To jog your memory, official tax policy for many years actually encouraged private equity firms to heap massive debts on important businesses.
In 1900, the official Tax Freedom Day (the day individual citizens have worked long enough to pay their share of the taxes) was January 22.
And companies care less about the official tax rate than what they actually pay after taking into account the various allowances and breaks that countries offer.
Which, of course, does not absolve the government from responsibility for writing tax rules in such a way as to prevent companies paying significantly less than the official corporation tax rate - which, of course, is not easy in a globalised world where businesses can move their domiciles and can shunt revenues more or less wherever they choose.
And it comes just as the effects of Mr Bush's (official) tax cuts start to wear off.
He has always been a tax and spend elected official and pro-amnesty advocate.
Many multinational companies manage to pay substantially below the official corporation tax rates by using tax havens such as Caribbean islands.
In 2001, when the first Bush tax cut was passed, official projections showed huge fiscal surpluses.
The former Clinton administration official predicted that tax policies will have to become more progressive in the next administration in order to help middle-income America.
"There is no possibility of repeal of the estate tax with Congress so divided, " says Ronald Pearlman, a former Reagan Administration Treasury official and now head of the graduate tax law program at Georgetown University Law Center.
Earlier in the year another council member pleaded guilty to stealing official funds and falsifying tax returns.
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The Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) is the official scorekeeper for all tax legislation passed by the Congress.
The company didn't reveal the amount of taxes being demanded, while an official at the local tax body declined comment.
You can print out the receipt for your records and use it as the official donation receipt for tax purposes.
The mea culpa lands ahead of an official report on the tax-fishing incidents by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.
But Bush has no plans to make electoral reform a signature issue on par with education reform or tax cuts, a White House official said.
China was one of the states most vehemently opposed to Europe's unilateral imposition of this "carbon tax" and today the Chinese official news agency Xinhua said the government had banned the country's airlines both from buying permits and from adding supplements to their ticket prices to cover their cost.
The official investigation by the Italian tax authority into their operations started shortly after the sale, in 2007, and focused on the years 2004-2006.
Currently the 2013 official White House numbers estimate tax receipts of 17.8% of GDP and Outlays of 23.3% of GDP for a deficit equal to 5.5% of GDP.
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Chinese state media reported a government official as saying that the tax rise, which has been approved by the Chinese cabinet, "is intended to help promote the healthy development of the securities markets".
He still pays full property tax on the house, and a city official challenged him for having an unapproved shipping container on the property to store salvaged belongings.
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