Tax

• House members debate surtax to fund veterans' education
  AP ( 15, 2008)
  WASHINGTON (AP) - The House kicked off a partisan debate Thursday on a Democratic plan to sharply boost education benefits for Iraq-Afghanistan veterans as the price for approving President Bush's long-stalled request for war funding.
   
  
• Contractors, insurance firms gouging taxpayers, panel says
  AP ( 15, 2008)
  WASHINGTON (AP) - A poorly run Pentagon program for providing workman's compensation for civilian employees in Iraq and Afghanistan has allowed defense contractors and insurance companies to gouge American taxpayers, a House oversight committee said Thursday.
   
  
• Many businesses didn't claim tax refund
  AP ( 008, 2008)
  WASHINGTON (AP) - Sometimes the IRS can't get people to cooperate, even when it tries to give money away.