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Six New York Republicans demanded that Attorney General Merrick Garland open an investigation into the Empire State’s own state Attorney General Letitia James after Nikki Haley's political nonprofit had its tax filings leaked to the media. Read More.

Wyoming’s reserve account may fill to a record $2 billion this year due to high oil prices, but relying on volatile commodities like oil, gas and coal to fund public services means state coffers are susceptible to the same volatile boom and bust cycles as the energy industry. Read More.

Elon Musk’s electric car maker Tesla has been granted tax exemptions from China just days after the tech mogul was praised by Beijing for saying that Taiwan should become a “special administrative zone” ruled by the Chinese Communist Party. Read More.

The Grassroots Corner - Week Beginning 10/17/22: “Meet New Jersey State Senator Ed Durr” Read More.

Diogenes was a Greek philosopher who died in Corinth in 323 B.C. He made a virtue of poverty and was famous for carrying a lantern as he went through each town he was visiting “looking for an honest man.” This is what the painting above is showing. Read More.

As the IRS prepares to receive a significant boost in funding and staff, tax insurance may be a solution to help high-income taxpayers and major corporations gain some certainty around their tax positions. Read More.

Missouri Governor Michael L. Parson has signed legislation that reduces the top rate of individual income tax with the possibility of further reductions if state revenues meet or exceed certain thresholds and exempts taxpayers’ first $1,000 of income from taxation. (L. 2022, S3 (1st Extra. Sess.), applicable to tax years beginning on or after 01/01/2023.) Read More.

Not everyone has a simple tax situation where their employer withholds more than enough money for taxes, and the person perhaps ends up getting a small refund the following tax season. Read More.

The Grassroots Corner - Week Beginning 10/10/22: “Meet Alexandru Bittner” Read More.

The Economic Development bill remains in conference committee and lawmakers are staying tight lipped on the status of the bill. Read More.

The IRS is telling temporarily reassigned “surge team” employees that they will need to continue their work cutting down the agency’s pandemic-era backlog of tax returns through the end of the year. Read More.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's (R) state border enforcement effort has been in the news lately mostly for the busses he has chartered, at a cost to taxpayers of $14 million and counting, to send migrants to a handful of Democratic-run cities. Read More.

With Halloween coming up very quickly, American households are about to get a deluge of candy — whether they are giving it out or taking it in. Read More.

States brimming with cash are cutting taxes at a rapid pace. With the enactment Wednesday of an income tax cut in Missouri, about two-thirds of U.S. states have adopted some sort of tax relief in 2022. Read More.

A coalition of grassroots organizations aiming to stop inflated property taxes in Detroit joined legislators online Thursday to formally request Attorney General Dana Nessel weigh in on whether overtaxed residents qualify for compensation under Michigan law. Read More.