Last week in response to criticism over the Hamilton County School budget’s $16 million dollar shortfall, two commissioners ...

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What is a tax sale? A tax sale is a public sale of properties that have unpaid property taxes from two years prior to the current year. Under the Municipal Act, if property taxes are not paid for two ...

If you don’t know the sales tax rate or it’s not printed on your receipt, you can work backwards to figure it out. Here’s an example: Sales tax is a government-imposed tax on most goods and ...

The City of Sault Ste. Marie sold five properties at tax sales last year, with the combined selling prices totalling $423,777. A report prepared this month by Lisa Petrocco, the city's manager of ...

The only real ways to reduce how much of your benefits are taxable is to reduce your taxable income or qualify for a lower marginal tax rate. For example, say that you expect to earn $3,300 per ...

Last week I wrote a post – What tax evasion robs us of. It quoted an estimate that the US had $21–32tn of untaxed assets, and that if taxed properly the income would fund a UBI in America. On The ...

5 Examples of Tax-Exempt Interest Income As we mentioned above, tax-exempt interest income is often associated with government or municipal entities that use the funds for public works and community ...

A companion bill in the House has yet to be scheduled for a hearing. Senate Bill 5814 would extend sales taxes to previously exempt computer-related services like IT consulting and training ...

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More than 75% of Kane County voters rejected a ballot question which would have raised the county sales tax by 0.75% for public safety costs. More than 50,000 voters turned out to vote “no ...