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A popular tax evasion scheme--involving the claim that tax is only owed if income is derived from a foriegn corporation--was cited by Actor Wesley Snipes in a bizarre bid to secure an unwarranted $7.4 million dollar tax refund, according to douments filed Tuesday in a federal court in Tampa, Florida.As aprt of a complaint filed by outlaw tax prepaper Dougals Rosile, government lawyers filed a copy of an amended 1997 tax return submitted last year by Snipes a Rosile client.The amended return, which the Justice Department lawyers called the 'largest Rosile-prepared bogus refund claim the IRS has detected' reduced Snipes...

<p>WASHINGTON - They've been called ``the smoking gun'': internal Enron memos detailing how the company created false congestion on transmission lines and performed other tricks to manipulate California's electricity market.</p> <p>But when the smoke finally clears, the memos describing schemes with names like ``Death Star'' probably will not be the evidence the state has long sought to secure $8.9 billion in refunds and invalidate high-priced energy contracts, according to key players and industry experts.</p>

ST. LOUIS -- The budget deficit is huge. Tax collection has been unexpectedly skimpy. And the treasury is all but tapped out. So the state of Missouri has stopped sending out income tax refunds. And there are no plans to put the checks in the mail any time soon. Here is the balance of the article

California will wait at least two months longer than expected for a decision on billions in refunds it has requested from electricity suppliers, according to a recent decision from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. The decision from a FERC administrative law judge is now expected sometime in the fall, rather than in August. The delay was caused by difficulty in obtaining information regarding power sale prices during the crisis from the California Independent System Operator, which oversees grid operations in the state. Gregg Fishman, a spokesman for the ISO, said the data include a very large number of transactions,...