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WASHINGTON (TNS) — Government spending is stealing your future. Each year, the federal government takes and spends nearly one-quarter of every dollar ...

NEW YORK (TNS) — What does it take to be counted among the top 1% earners nationwide? According to a new study, an American family needs to earn an an...

Local sales tax collections slipped for all area taxing bodies in June and the second quarter of the year, the Office of the State Comptroller announc...

DEAR RUSTY: For a 30-year period, I was making a living as an independent contractor and freelancer. I was working on behalf of myself. Thus, I was on...

Not that we needed another poll to tell us that New York state is getting increasingly more unaffordable, but recent statewide polling from the Siena ...

OLEAN — Fox Holdings, Inc., doing business as H&R Block, is celebrating a remarkable milestone achieved by one of its tax advisors. Marianne Whitcomb,...

DEAR RUSTY: I’m just trying to figure out how to determine whether to retire at 65 or 67 and, if I retire, approximately how much could I make outside...

The Alle-Catt Wind project has come a long way since starting development more than eight years ago. We’ve recently started construction on our Operat...

ELLICOTTVILLE — Cattaraugus County Industrial Development Agency board members gave a cool reception to a pair of benefit requests Tuesday, seeking mo...

Inflation has slowed over the last year, but area counties and towns will again be hit by the property tax cap. The Office of the State Comptroller re...

NEW YORK (TNS) — At first glance, the policy sounds absurd, especially to many Americans: In Sweden, grandparents are now eligible for government subs...

ALBANY — The outflow of New York taxpayers to the rest of the country subsided from the previous year’s record high during the second tax-filing perio...

President Joe Biden and Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., have proudly been touting the $6.1 billion grant the U.S. will provide for Micron Technologies t...

DEAR RUSTY: I hope you can give me some information about a question that has come up in my family. My husband is retired and has reached full retirem...

OLEAN — Homeowners needing some financial help with repairs will have another chance thanks to the Olean Local Development Corporation. A second round...

The IRS has appointed a new “taxpayer experience officer,” whose salary is paid by — who else? — taxpayers themselves. The agency hasn’t publicly anno...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — When former President Donald Trump told Senate Republicans last week that he was thinking about replacing the income tax with an “...

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