IRS reports average tax refund rises near 100 dollars
The first batch of checks shows the average refund at 2292 dollars, up 97 dollars from last year. Treasury notes a 300 dollar lift due to 2003 relief, while economists caution that early figures may change and remain phones off as the season begins.
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Internal Revenue Service
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Wells Fargo & Co
Minneapolis
Treasury Department
Tara Bradshaw
Joel Prakken
Macroeconomic Advisers LLC
St. Louis
U S Faces WTO Sanctions Over Tax Break Controversy
The United States will face 5 percent tariffs on exports to the EU starting Monday with higher rates monthly if Congress does not pass a WTO compatible tax law. EU officials urge swift action while Republicans clash over which corporations receive the breaks.
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Bush budget projects $2.75 trillion decade deficit
The Congressional Budget Office projects a $2.75 trillion deficit over the next decade under President Bush's budget. It forecasts $478 billion in 2004 and $356 billion in 2005, with annual shortfalls never below $242 billion after 2007, peaking at $289 billion in 2014.
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Official memoir details Reagan plan to cripple Soviet economy
The memoir by Thomas C. Reed claims a January 1982 CIA programme sent covert software to disrupt Soviet gas pumps and valves, triggering a massive Siberian pipeline explosion. Reed says the blast damaged the economy, hastening the Cold War end, with no casualties.
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Washington
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Soviet Union
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Reed
William J. Casey
United
U.S
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