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Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Who's to Blame for the IRS Singling out Conservative Groups Seeking Tax-Exempt Status?

The agency apologized last week for automatically sending Tea Party and similar groups through multiple hoops before the 2012 election.

President Obama this week said efforts by IRS employees to target new conservative groups for extra scrutiny were "outrageous," echoing many administration critics who charged that the measures were politically motivated. "I have got no patience with it, I will not tolerate it, and we will make sure that we find out exactly what happened on this," Obama said in a news conference Monday. The Wall Street Journal reported that an Inspector General's report concludes there was widespread targeting of conservative-linked groups for aggressive questioning, but that no one outside the IRS was involved in establishing the practice. (The report was released Tuesday.) Former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman, an appointee of President George W. Bush…

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Mr. B

10:59 pm on Sunday, May 19, 2013

The GOP couldn't dumb anyone down enough to match B.O. We don't have the network within the liberal schools to hide our records. We're much too honest. You and yours have the lock on liars. Seriously, don't think we would ever want B.O. in our party. America hating, anti-military, anti-self defense, entitlement building scum bag. No room for people like that around here. Keep him, we don't need …   more ›

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

IRS Announces New 2013 Tax Rates and Standard Deductions

It's tax time again in Johns Creek and elsewhere. Standard deductions will increase, but the ceiling for itemized deductions decrease in 2013, plus other changes that will affect your taxes this year.

The Internal Revenue Service recently announced annual inflation adjustments for tax year 2013, including the tax rate schedules, and other tax changes from the recently passed American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012.  The tax items for 2013 of greatest interest to most taxpayers include the following changes. Details on these inflation adjustments and others are contained in Revenue Procedure 2013-15, which will be published in Internal Revenue Bulletin 2013-5 on Jan.28, 2013. Other inflation adjusted items were published in October 2012 in Revenue Procedure 2012-41. -News release from the Internal Revenue Service If you have tax questions and need an expert, use the Johns Creek Patch directory to locate a CPA or tax service near you.

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