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Taxes

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2012

    Allen West Launches First Attack on Patrick Murphy

    The ugliness has started. Sort of.Until now, Congressman Allen West has remained almost silent when it came to actually having an opponent in the race for the District 19 congressional seat -- though Democrat Patrick Murphy followed him up there after West bailed on District 22 for friendlier demogr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2012

    Five Lies Allen West Told on Mark Levin's Radio Show Friday Night

    Allen West has been getting a lot of bad press lately -- news outlets across the country, including this one, latched onto his declaration that "there are 78 to 81 members of the Democrat Party that are members of the Communist Party."He's since moved past that assertion and onto the (slightly) ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2012

    Oceans 234 Shows Love for Tax Professionals With Free Bar Tab Today

    Tax day is tomorrow, April 17, and whether we owe money or are getting a refund, most of us can agree that the tax accountant, relentlessly figuring out tax rules and punching numbers on a calculator, usually gets no love... until now.Oceans 234 in Deerfield Beach has heard the plight of the tax ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2012

    You Might Want to File Tax Returns This Year: The IRS's $1 Billion It Owes Americans

    ​​We've only got about a month left before 2011 federal income taxes are due (April 17, everybody), and, even if you didn't make enough money to require filing a return, the IRS says you might want to.Many people who don't have to file returns still have federal income taxes out of their paychec ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2012

    Allen West Uses Ben-Hur to Vaguely Defend Regressive Tax Plan

    ​If you were wondering, Congressman Allen West supports the flat tax. If you want to know why, though, it has, ah, something to do with Charlton Heston.West posted a video of himself speaking on the House floor last week under the title, "Why the Flat Tax Works." It's a curious title, because he d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 29, 2012

    West Palm Beach Cracks Down on Food Trucks

    ​It seems that the honeymoon phase between the City of West Palm Beach and food trucks is coming to an end. Palm Beach County is behind Miami in food trucks, but certain owners, most notably the Fire Within and Curbside Gourmet, have risen to the challenge of bringing the mobile eateries to the no ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2012

    How to Cook the Books: Eight Ways Larry Tibbs Allegedly Screwed Up Lauderdale Lakes Budget Projections

    ​It should be noted up-front that Larry Tibbs hasn't had a chance to respond to the charges lined up in a Broward Inspector General report leaked yesterday -- he has 30 days to submit a rebuttal, which he said yesterday he fully planned to do.But the allegations of wild mismanagement in Lauderdale ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2012

    Newt Gingrich Says Nobody Cares About the Right to Privacy, Challenges Obama to 21 Hours of Debates

    ​Newt Gingrich's stump speech at Wings Plus in Coral Springs had a lot of meat to it -- he criticized President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech, made fun of the media, and was heckled mercilessly for the first half of the event by a protester who was eventually booted from the parking lot ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2011

    PolitiFact: Where "We Have No Way of Knowing" Turns Into "Mostly False"

    wildmanhangout.com​Who fact-checks the fact-checkers?The Pulitzer Prize-winning analysts of political statements over at PolitiFact -- a project of the St. Petersburg Times -- ran a pretty curious rundown of one of President Obama's statements this week.The claim: "Some billionaires have a tax ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2011

    Seven People Charged in Tax Fraud Case Based on Secret Bank-Account Conspiracy Theory

    ambienceofmedia.com​Get this: The government creates a secret bank account for every person issued a birth certificate in the United States -- and has been doing so since the enactment of the 1936 Social Security Act -- that holds $630,000. Through a series of IRS filings, people can become entitl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2011

    Two of South Florida's Fortune 500 Companies Land on List of "Corporate Tax Dodgers"

    Good one, Mr. Moneybags.​Out of the five Fortune 500 companies based in South Florida, two of them managed to bank on a negative tax rate over the past three years, earning them a spot on a list of the country's "corporate tax dodgers."Citizens for Tax Justice issued the report evaluating 280 comp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2011

    Florida Power & Light Rebukes Report on "Corporate Tax Dodgers"

    ​NextEra Energy -- which owns Florida Power & Light Co. -- ain't too happy about being placed on a list of "corporate tax dodgers," which we wrote about earlier today.A group that calls itself Citizens for Tax Justice issued the report evaluating 280 companies nationwide, and named 78 of t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2011

    Allen West Interview: Florida Tea Party Favorite Talks About Islam and Donald Trump (Part 2)

    ​Read the first installment of the Allen West interview here.New Times: Let's talk about the Ryan budget [introduced by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin)], which you supported in the House. [This proposal was passed by the House and at presstime was awaiting a vote in the Senate, although House leader ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2011

    Tax Day Deals

    Grab a bite before Uncle Sam bites you!​The IRS was nice enough to give us a whopping two-day extention on filing our taxes. That's all well and good, but you still might come out feeling a little poorer if you have to write a check to Uncle Sam today. Fret not, because there are a lot of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 20, 2011

    Florida Prisoners Lead The Nation in Tax Fraud

    ​Florida is number one again. The state that holds the championship belt in oxycodone consumption now leads the U.S. in fraudulent tax returns filed from prison. Perhaps our prisoners are trying to emulate the leadership traits of Captain Medicaid Fraud, aka Gov. Rick Scott. Florida inmates filed ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2011

    Florida Among Top Three States Targeted for a New Form of Identity Theft

    flickr.com​How low can you go? Apparently six feet under wasn't low enough for the Fort Lauderdale man sentenced to nine years in federal prison last Friday for stealing identification from mourners attending funerals as part of an ID theft ring. But Diaz's funeral fraud ring isn't the only s ... More >>

  • News

    December 2, 2010

    Whose Dole Is It, Anyway?

    flickr.com​How low can you go? Apparently six feet under wasn't low enough for the Fort Lauderdale man sentenced to nine years in federal prison last Friday for stealing identification from mourners attending funerals as part of an ID theft ring. But Diaz's funeral fraud ring isn't the only s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2010

    Kristin Haynes, Millionaire Creator of "Dreamsicles" Figurines, Sentenced for Tax Evasion

    We must be in the wrong business. Looks like the big money is in knickknacks, trinkets, and doodads. According to court documents in a federal criminal case, Kristin Haynes, creator of the Dreamsicles line of collectible ceramic figurines (like the one pictured here) raked in nearly $3 mil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 27, 2010

    Rick Scott Property Tax Calculator Ignores Small Fact: Florida Law

    ​GOP candidate for governor Rick Scott released this pretty snazzy new website on Friday: It's a property tax calculator that figures out a Floridian's tax if Scott gets elected versus Democratic opponent Alex Sink. There's just one problem with his site: It ignores the Florida Constitution.Scott' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2010

    Broward Health Commissioner Says System Will Be Less Political as a Nonprofit

    browardhealth.orgCommissioner Richard Paul-Hus​If the North Broward Hospital District follows through on plans to lease its assets to a nonprofit organization, then it will "take the politics out" of managing that public hospital district, according to Commissioner Richard Paul-Hus, who responded ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2010

    [UPDATED] Charity Linked to Deerfield Commissioner Took Out 10 Percent Loan With Relative

    deerfield-beach.comSylvia Poitier​A charity under investigation by Deerfield Beach took out a high-interest loan from a brother of Commissioner Sylvia Poitier in hopes of paying taxes on property it owned in the city. The charity then listed that liability in a financial statement to the city, rai ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2010

    Charity President Says Agency Isn't Ducking Investigator

    Flickr: itbe-GregDid Deerfield Beach's housing dollars go down the drain?​Felecia Poitier, president of a charity being investigated by Deerfield Beach for its management of housing funds, denied allegations that her agency has not cooperated fully with auditors, blaming delays on the time-consumi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2010

    Deerfield Housing Charity Owes Nearly $150,000 in Delinquent Taxes

    A nonprofit organization in Deerfield Beach under investigation for mishandling tax dollars has failed to pay taxes on any of six properties for at least five years, according to records released to Juice this afternoon. The Westside Deerfield Businessmen Association stands to lose all six propertie ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 25, 2009

    GlobeTel CEO Indicted

    courtesy GlobeTel​A couple of years ago, we ran a feature story about GlobeTel, a company that was supposedly going to deploy blimp-like satellites across the country and beam down internet signals. There were a few problems with the scheme: building hi-tech airships seemed a job more suited for b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 13, 2009

    Michael and Victoria Meisner Earn Wrath of Unpaid Taxman

    Photobucket This wasn't the Meisner's place, but theirs was a similar Palm Beach mansion​Following a Rothsteinesque money scheme, Boca's white collar Bonnie and Clyde are finally facing the music. This week, Victoria Meisner made her first appearence before a judge, answering charges of fil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2009

    Bueller? Pines Leaders Fumble Tax Calculations

    Flickr user: HeneghanCan you calculate your tax hike?​Pack City Hall with more than 150 angry citizens and any governing body would get a bit anxious. But at Wednesday night's budget hearing, the Pembroke Pines city commissioners appeared to be auditioning for Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? An ... More >>

  • News

    August 13, 2009

    Crooked Courthouse

    The Broward Commission will build a courthouse, even if voters don't want it and there's no good way to pay for it.

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2009

    Plantation Accountant, Firm Barred From Filing Taxes for Clients

    In a deal that will have to come with a career change, Carole Exantus of Plantation accepted a permanent injunction against filing tax returns on clients' behalf in order to settle a case with U.S. Justice Department attorneys who had sued her for fraud. From the release:The court found that [Exantu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2009

    Cigarette Smokers Burned By New Tax; Cigar Aficionados Blow Celebratory Rings

    flickr.com While cigarette smokers will now pay a dollar per pack more, the legislature gave the cigar industry a break. A new state-wide dollar-per-pack tax on cigarettes and smokeless and pipe tobacco starts today. The stated goal from the legislature is to encourage smokers to stop. If ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2009

    House Owned By Tally Power Players Under Homestead Investigation

    Arduin and Ericks with Jeb BushOne of the GOP's top tax experts is under investigation for her own homestead tax exemption.   The Pulp has learned that the Broward Property Appraisers Office is investigating the homestead exemption on a Fort Lauderdale home owned ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2009

    Florida: Where It's Good to be a Smoker, Bad to be a Lung

    Smoke up, Florida! Kentucky raised their state taxes on cigarettes and booze yesterday. Residents will now pay 60 cents in state taxes per pack of cigarettes. So there's good news and bad news for Floridians. This means that the nation's two biggest tobacco-producing states, Kentucky and N ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2009

    Schoolkids, State Workers: You're All Under the Bus for Tax-Shy Legislature

    Our Florida legislators have some budget-cutting to do, but they also need to improve the state's education system, which is fast becoming a national embarrassment. This will take some creativity. Republicans, as the majority party, you're up.flhouse.govAdam HasnerAdam Hasner, Republican from Delray ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2009

    State Republican Does Not Want A Billion Dollars

    Rep. Anitere Flores should be grateful that only dorks like me watch Issues, the Sunday political program on our local public television station WPBT. I can't imagine she'd have wanted her constituents in Kendall / University Park / Westwood Lakes to watch her appearance this past Sunday.Here's a li ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2008

    Pulp O' The Mornin'

    Rep. Anitere Flores should be grateful that only dorks like me watch Issues, the Sunday political program on our local public television station WPBT. I can't imagine she'd have wanted her constituents in Kendall / University Park / Westwood Lakes to watch her appearance this past Sunday.Here's a li ... More >>

  • Music

    December 20, 2007

    Beenie Man

    Rep. Anitere Flores should be grateful that only dorks like me watch Issues, the Sunday political program on our local public television station WPBT. I can't imagine she'd have wanted her constituents in Kendall / University Park / Westwood Lakes to watch her appearance this past Sunday.Here's a li ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2007

    Ellen Dalton Keeps On Ticking

    Rep. Anitere Flores should be grateful that only dorks like me watch Issues, the Sunday political program on our local public television station WPBT. I can't imagine she'd have wanted her constituents in Kendall / University Park / Westwood Lakes to watch her appearance this past Sunday.Here's a li ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 31, 2007

    DeGroot On The Big Pump Thump

    Rep. Anitere Flores should be grateful that only dorks like me watch Issues, the Sunday political program on our local public television station WPBT. I can't imagine she'd have wanted her constituents in Kendall / University Park / Westwood Lakes to watch her appearance this past Sunday.Here's a li ... More >>

  • News

    February 8, 2007

    Heartbreak Hotel

    It's the end of an era on Hollywood Beach, where small, cheap motels are all that stand in the way of another playground for the wealthy

  • News

    November 30, 2006

    The Tightest Slots in Town

    Aren't you happy you get to shovel money into the shiny new machines?

  • News

    November 16, 2006

    Hooray for Hollywood

    Even with a housing bust and bad court verdicts, the show goes on.

  • Blogs

    October 31, 2006

    For All You Political Junkies ...

    Even with a housing bust and bad court verdicts, the show goes on.

  • Blogs

    September 27, 2006

    DeGroot DePants DeSentinel

    Even with a housing bust and bad court verdicts, the show goes on.

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2006

    When Is A Correction Not Enough?

    Even with a housing bust and bad court verdicts, the show goes on.

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2006

    Sheriff's Atty: Sun-Sentinel Story On Jenne Was Bogus

    Even with a housing bust and bad court verdicts, the show goes on.

  • News

    April 7, 2005

    Curious George Sails the River of Red

    Following a long tradition, new Fort Lauderdale City Manager George Gretsas tries to tame the big spenders at City Hall

  • News

    August 26, 2004

    The Big Lie

    Is the North Broward Hospital District playing a shell game with tax dollars?

  • News

    April 29, 2004

    The Hypocritic Oath

    Weston only the start of hospital district chicanery

  • News

    August 23, 2001

    Annexation Vexation

    The plan to bring Broward County's poor areas into the fold is full of holes

  • News

    February 25, 1999

    The People's Republic of Area A

    A group of neighborhood leaders prepares to declare independence and start Broward's first black-majority city

  • News

    August 20, 1998

    Definitely in My Back Yard

    When the residents of Mangonia Park heard that a girls' detention center might be built in their town, they put out the welcome mat

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