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The IRS and many unhappy returns
Commentary, Nation World
Jan 07, 2025
TheIRSwields immense power over the financial lives of Americans, yet recent revelations highlight it would be wise to question an expansion of that a...
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Is NY program designed to waste money?
Local News, News
Oct 24, 2024
The State of New York has spent $40 million on its County-Wide Shared Service Initiative, which appears to exist for the explicit purpose of eliminati...
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The IRS keeps its same old stripes
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Jan 10, 2023
Congressional Democrats last year showered the IRS with $80 billion in new funding in an effort to close an estimated $600 billion “tax gap,” the diff...
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Gov. Cuomo’s latest abuse
Local Columnists, New York
Apr 15, 2021
Staffers in the office of Gov. Andrew Cuomo worked on a private poll while on the taxpayer dime. The Times Union obtained emails showing that Melissa ...
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Fix the US tax code
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
Oct 08, 2020
The New York Times alleges that President Donald Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017. Whether or not this is true (the Times has ...
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Receive NYS tax refund up to two weeks sooner
Allegany County News, Cattaraugus County, Local News
Mar 03, 2020
ALBANY — The New York State Department of Taxation Finance reminds taxpayers that they can receive the refunds they’re owed up to two weeks sooner by ...
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RTW: There’s too much secrecy in Olean
Commentary, Local Columnists, Readers Turn To Write
JOHN CAPPELLETTI Special to the Olean Times Herald 
Sep 09, 2019
In this day and age of IT, in which a business or home can have all kinds of security that can turn things on and off and give alerts, it’s hard to be...
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Young is sworn in for seventh term in State Senate
Allegany County News, Cattaraugus County, Local News, ...
Jan 11, 2019
ALBANY – Senator Catharine Young, R-Olean, has taken her oath of office to begin her seventh full term. Young, whose 57th Senate District includes All...
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A-L capital project to include beefed-up security plans
Cattaraugus County, Local News, News
KATE DAY SAGER Olean Times Herald 
Aug 16, 2018
ALLEGANY — An update on the $17.2 million capital improvement project was the highlight of Tuesday’s Allegany-Limestone Central School District’s boar...
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