Nation moves to electronic tax filing next year
North Carolina taxpayers will file state tax returns electronically next year, mirroring federal practice. About 500,000 residents file electronically for federal returns, with the Revenue Department expecting similar numbers for state returns. Benefits cited include accuracy and faster processing. Refunds mailed this year total 912,562 versus 596,684 a year ago.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
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State Revenue Department
Phil Bridges
Revenue Department
Tax Filing Progress and Refund Averages Report
The report notes preliminary results with 57 million federal returns filed out of an expected 114 million. It cites an average federal refund of 1169 dollars and state refunds around 245 dollars. Refunds for electronic filers typically arrive in six to ten weeks, or two to three weeks for electronic processing.
Tax Day rush swells as refunds rise in North Carolina
Three week sprint to April 15 looms as tax preparers report slowing business. Refunds to date are higher than years past while IRS sources project about 3 million returns from Tar Heel taxpayers. Half of expected returns have arrived at the Greensboro regional office, arriving near last year’s pace.
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Internal Revenue Service
Greensboro
Barbara Albright
IRS
Tar Heel
Seized records sought in Dow case and Jordan ties
U S attorney subpoenas documents from the Eddie Dow briefcase and Dow Bonding Co records seized during the murder probe. The materials include about 108000 in checks allegedly written by Michael Jordan, tied to gambling debts and loans. Subpoena targets cassette tapes and memos to be presented to a federal grand jury on April 8.
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U.S. Attorney’s Office
Eddie Dow
Michael Jordan
Gaston County
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Dow Bonding Co
The
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Jordan
Belmont
NBA
Hilton Head Island
S.C
U.S
Tom Ashcraft
Thomas Church
Gaston
Tom McCarthy
McCarthy
Steve Dolley
He's Back but Soviet spaceman faces new planet
Sergei Krikalev landed in Kazakhstan five months after his Mir mission was extended due to the Soviet collapse. The 33 year old flight engineer left a disintegrating USSR and re entered a Russia now part of the CIS. He noted little immediate change in his own view of moving back to a united Russia. The report recalls his May 1991 launch under Gorbachev with the hammer and sickle atop the Kremlin and Leningrad renamed to St. Petersburg. The space veteran described the transition as not drastic, given his time in space spanned the USSR era and its dissolution. Wednesday's Nezavisimaya Gazeta SPACE/2A
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Mir Space Station
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Kremlin
Communist Party
St. Petersburg
Russia
Commonwealth of Independent States
Nezavisimaya Gazeta
Russians Offer Big Rockets to U.S. Shoppers on Capitol Hill
Russian scientists told a House Science committee they seek only business, offering Energia the world’s largest launcher for orbiting pieces of the U.S. space station Freedom and Soyuz T for emergencies, with a ramjet rocket engine spare. They insisted cooperation replaces hostility.
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Congress
House Committee On Science, Space and Technology
United States
Boris Saltykov
Science, Advanced Education
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Moscow
Saltykov
Yuri Koptev
Space Research Institute
Russian Academy of Sciences
Energia
U.S
Koptev
Congress to televise NCAA games for staff on Capitol Hill
Congress and CBS will pipe NCAA tournament games to congressional offices via a dedicated channel. CBS says the service costs nothing to taxpayers and does not affect official business. staffers will see regional semifinal games Thursday and Friday beyond the two CBS broadcasts. Kentucky remains in the hunt.
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Congress
CBS
Congressional
Senate
Jim King
Senate Rules Committee
Wendell Ford
Gazette Weather and Classified Snippet Recap
Local bulletin lists contact numbers for Abby Lincolnton Charlotte Fox and The Gazettes. Mentions recyclable pro, rain chances and high and low temperatures 59 and 43 degrees. Details on page 2A.
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