How to Stop Receiving Credit Card Offers - These steps should reduce the volume of snail mail solicitations; but won't do much about the millions of offers sent out by spammers because those scumbags don't obey any rules or do-not-solicit lists.


Former Harrison Abstract owner faces theft charges - Dian Brown's trial for stealing a million dollars from escrow funds is currently scheduled to begin next week, March 12. It will probably be postponed again for any number of procedural or technical reasons.


States Bent on Collecting Internet Taxes - States are trying to get their residents to voluntarily report purchases made via mail order and pay the Use Taxes on them, which are the same rates as normal Sales Taxes paid in the buyers' local jurisdictions. Here in Arkansas, I noticed the DFA has put out news releases asking people to do this; but they aren't making it as easy to do as many other states are. Rather than add a schedule that can be attached to individuals' annual income tax returns to report the untaxed purchases, DFA is requiring people to obtain a completely different tax form. If they are truly serious about making it easy for people to volunteer those taxes, the DFA needs to make it a routine part of the annual income tax filing, as several other states are already doing. That way, we professional tax preparers can add a question to our annual tax organizers to capture that info.



- posted by Kerry M. Kerstetter, MBA~CPA~ATP~ATA @ 3/04/2004 12:59:00 PM Send this post: