Curtis and Curran Carter sit in the dining room of Curran's Newburgh, Ind., apartment, their conversation bouncing from heat waves, big snows and milking cows before school to cars, fishing and late-night talk show host Jay Leno.
HENDERSON, Ky. -- At 8:30 a.m. Wednesday a young man in his 20s approached the Rev. Obediah Franklin, a traveling minister who was kneeling at the busy intersection of Second and Green streets in this Ohio River town.
Paying taxes unites us. It also divides us. People can pay five and even six times more in state and local taxes than other folks in similar circumstances making similar incomes.
In one of the fastest-growing forms of identity theft, crooks are stealing tax refunds by swiping personal information and using it to trick the Internal Revenue Service.