August 18, 2015
From: The Federation of Connecticut Taxpayer
Organizations
Contact: Susan Kniep, President
Website: http://ctact.org/
Email:
fctopresident@aol.com
Telephone:
860-841-8032
BREAKING: IRS: Taxpayer breach larger than first reported
The Hill - By Bernie Becker
- 08/17/15
The IRS acknowledged Monday that a recent computer breach
was larger than first reported, saying that hundreds of thousands of additional
taxpayers saw their sensitive information compromised.
The tax agency said that thieves might have swiped
information on another 220,000 taxpayers as part of a scheme first revealed in
May. Another 170,000 attempts to steal taxpayer information were unsuccessful. Continue
reading at …. http://thehill.com/policy/finance/251292-irs-taxpayer-breach-larger-than-first-reported
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See how many arrests have been made in your school, Connecticut’s high
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CONNECTICUT’S
HIGH PROPERTY TAXES AGAIN TAKE CENTER STAGE!!!
How High Are Property Taxes in Your State? | Tax Foundation
August 13, 2015 By Jared
Walczak
New Jersey has the highest effective
rate at 2.38% and is followed closely by Illinois
(2.32%), New Hampshire (2.15%), and Connecticut (1.98%).
On the other end
of the spectrum, Hawaii has the lowest
effective rate at 0.28%, and is followed closely by Alabama
(0.43%), Louisiana (0.51%), and Delaware
(0.55%). How does your state compare?
Read complete article at ….. http://taxfoundation.org/sites/taxfoundation.org/files/docs/property_taxes-01.png
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By Lewis M. Andrews Lewis M. Andrews was executive director
of the Yankee Institute for Public Policy in Hartford from 1999 to 2009. He is currently
president of the Children's Educational Opportunity Foundation of Connecticut.
The recent
passage in Connecticut
of a $40 billion budget that seeks $1.5 billion in tax increases and fees,
makes permanent a 20 percent surcharge on business income, and for the first
time taxes corporations on their foreign earnings has predictably attracted
national attention. How did Connecticut, which just over two decades ago had no
income tax and was widely known as "the Switzerland of New England,"
so quickly become the third highest-taxing state in the nation, the most
indebted on a per capita basis, and, according to Barron's, the worst
managed?
The two
obvious villains would appear to be the state's public-employee unions, which
for decades have funded the campaigns of Democratic legislators willing to
grant unaffordable pay and benefit packages, and a Republican party pitifully
incapable of defending the interests of taxpayers. But why would this familiar
blue-state combination prove so disproportionately lethal in Connecticut, a state whose tradition of
politically strong towns and no county government would seem to empower
conservative voters? And why has the resulting low growth rate, less than a
half of 1 percent in recent years, not produced a strong popular backlash?
Continue
reading at …..
http://www.realclearpolicy.com/blog/2015/06/09/connecticut_budget_self-destructing_1321.html
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How many arrests have there been in your school?
By: Alvin Chang | August 11, 2015 CTMirror.org
Find out the number of arrests there have been in your
school since the 2011-12 school year — and what the arrests were for. Continue Reading →
Use our interactive database to find out how many arrests
were made in the schools in your town since the 2011-12 school year and what students were charged with.
http://ctmirror.org/2015/08/11/how-many-arrests-have-there-been-in-your-school/
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Auditors Holding State Agencies,
Institutions Accountable
By Hartford
Courant, Editorial contact the reporter August 17, 2015
The office of the State Auditors of Public Accounts doesn't
have an official motto. But if it needed one, it would be: "We've got your
back."
Just this year, the auditors:
•Found that some retired state employees may be receiving
disability pensions, even though they're no longer disabled. Continue reading at …..
http://www.courant.com/opinion/op-ed/hc-ed-hooray-for-state-auditors-20150814-story.html
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Government Employee Jailed For Tax Evasion
Courant By Edmund H. Mahony contact the reporter August 14, 2015
HARTFORD — A
state employee was sentenced to 16 months in prison Friday for claiming a
wildly exaggerated number of exemptions in order to avoid paying federal income
tax on more than half a million dollars in income. Continue reading at ….
http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-stephanie-elliott-tax-sentence-0815-20150814-story.html
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The World. Last week, Business Insider reported that by
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