IRS to get tough on 'high-risk' tax evaders

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Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will be getting tougher on high-risk evaders especially those seeking to hide wealth in offshore tax havens. The IRS is asking Congress to increase its current $10.2 billion budget by five percent for 2005 and is working to change a culture of risk aversion among employees that set in after bruising congressional hearings in 1997.

Legal issues & crime, Government regulation (cont), Government regulation, Legal/Government Regulation, Laws, regulations and rules, Powers and duties, Tax evasion, United States. Internal Revenue Service

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Buy brokerages? Maybe not

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The stock market's rise and moves by some brokerages to reinvent their business models have lead to increases in their stock prices in 2003. However investors state that the year 2003 was a better time to buy the stocks of retail brokerage companies Charles Schwab & Co. Inc., E-Trade Financial Corp. and Ameritrade Holding Corp.

Forecasts, trends, outlooks, Stocks, Forecasts and trends, Market trend/market analysis, Stock prices, Stock markets, Stock market

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