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  • News 2 Investigates: Top Ticket Violators

    May 2, 2013 7:12 PM

    BATON ROUGE - The Parish Attorney's Office partnered with the City Clerk of Court will now withhold state income tax returns from people with outstanding parking tickets. Weekly, city court judges sign more than 200 money judgments allowing tax returns to be seized to pay off what's owed. ... more »
  • Favre returns to Super Bowl for NFL Network

    January 30, 2013 2:47 PM

    NEW ORLEANS - Brett Favre is returning to the NFL - to work for the NFL Network. The retired three-time NFL MVP quarterback will join the network's crew for daylong coverage of Sunday's NFL championship game between the Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers. Favre hasn't been heard from much... more »
  • Taxpayers can start filing their state tax returns

    January 30, 2013 2:39 PM

    BATON ROUGE- People can now file their state income tax returns, but the state revenue department says the earliest tax filers will get their refunds is Feb. 26. The department announced Wednesday that new computer software designed to prevent fraudulent electronic filing is being rolled out. That identity verification software... more »
  • Tax filing season starts Jan. 30 for most filers

    January 8, 2013 1:19 PM

    WASHINGTON - The Internal Revenue Service says late changes to federal tax laws should mean only a short delay for most taxpayers to file their 2012 returns. The agency said Tuesday that more than 120 million taxpayers - about 80 percent of all filers - should be able to start... more »
  • Week after Christmas slow for retailers Play Video

    December 26, 2012 5:45 PM

    BATON ROUGE - The 2012 shopping season is quickly drawing to a close, and many shoppers say they didn't spend as much as years past. Retailers typically make 40 percent of their yearly sales in November and December. The week after Christmas is still considered a big shopping week,... more »
  • Baton Rouge area tax service shut down Play Video

    December 11, 2012 5:21 PM

    BATON ROUGE- Larry Dixon has been permanently barred from operating his tax service company by the federal government. Dixon's Tax Service operated two offices in Baton Rouge and one in Gonzales. A federal judge signed an injuntion against the company after investigators say they filed bogus returns that benefitted... more »
  • Experts: SC hacking largest vs. state tax agency

    October 31, 2012 12:36 PM

    CHARLESTON, S.C. - Experts say that the hacking of 3.6 million South Carolina tax returns is the largest cyber-attack against a state tax agency in the nation. Paul Stephens of the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse in California says there have been larger attacks against both private companies and the federal government... more »
  • House returns Friday to try again on $25B budget Play Video

    May 11, 2012 7:35 AM

    BATON ROUGE - The Louisiana House is trying to reach a compromise over next year's budget, a day after deadlocking on the $25 billion in spending plans. Lawmakers came in Friday morning and then immediately recessed as they continued negotiating behind the scenes. Conservative Republicans and the Jindal administration are... more »
  • Republicans await returns in two Southern states

    March 13, 2012 2:46 PM

    MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Alabama's governor hadn't publicly made an endorsement in today's GOP primary -- but today, a spokesman says, Gov. Robert Bentley voted for Rick Santorum. The spokesman says he believes Santorum is "the most conservative candidate" in the race. Voters in Mississippi are also choosing among the... more »
  • More people are filing taxes online

    April 12, 2011 5:32 PM

    BATON ROUGE - The federal tax deadline is next Monday, but you have over a month to get your state taxes in. The state tax deadline is Monday, May 16. For years, more and more people have filed online rather than mailing their returns. Last year, over 1.3... more »
  • Economic Boost: Tax Refunds

    March 31, 2011 7:32 PM

    The IRS expects to issue up to $300 billion in tax refunds this year in what could be a boost to the economy. The IRS Commissioner told Congress on Thursday the average refund is about $3,000 this year with the revenue service receiving about 75-million returns. About 65-million qualify for... more »
  • More state returns to come in electronically

    March 24, 2011 2:46 PM

    BATON ROUGE, La. - The Louisiana Department of Revenue says more than 1 million individual state tax returns have been filed electronically. The agency said Thursday it's the earliest point in the tax-filing season that the 1-million point has been hit - and 90 percent of all returns filed... more »
  • That Santa feeling hasn't quite left shoppers yet

    December 27, 2010 4:10 PM

    NEW YORK - Forget the returns line: Americans hit the stores after Christmas to buy stuff, indulging the rediscovered retail appetite that may have made 2010's holiday shopping season the biggest ever. Revenue for the holiday season is on track to grow at its strongest rate since 2006. Total spending... more »
  • Day-after-Christmas shoppers head to the mall

    December 26, 2010 6:48 PM

    Crowds of people shuffled through the mall, some looking for a good deal, others making returns. For Charlene Dean, day-after-Christmas shopping is a family tradition. "It's been a family event but only for the girls to spend their Christmas money," Dean said. Shoppers who got to the... more »
  • Judge confesses: out-of-order phone was his

    August 20, 2010 8:44 AM

    A cell phone went off in the Shreveport courtroom of U.S. District Judge Robbie James during the trial of former state Sen. Charles D. Jones, who is fighting charges of tax evasion and filing false tax returns. Judges usually clamp down on the use of cell phones in the courtroom,... more »
  • State collects $1 billion online in taxes

    March 4, 2010 5:26 AM

    The Louisiana Department of Revenue says its online sales tax collection service has taken in more than $1 billion in state and local sales and use taxes. Known as Parish E-File.com, the free web application lets businesses file returns and remit those taxes online. The application was launched in August... more »

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