TOLEDO, Ohio, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- An Ohio mayor is pushing for a 5-cent tax on every plastic bag handed out by a store, arguing the levy would be good for the environment and the budget.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- The U.S. Internal Revenue Service should investigate a DVD film about Islam distributed by a nonprofit group, an American-Islamic group says.
TORONTO, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- Vehicle owners in Toronto awoke Labor Day Monday to a new $60 city surtax for their annual license plate renewals.
BRUSSELS, May 16 (UPI) -- Finance ministers from the European Union have agreed to rewrite rules on savings tax in an effort to curtail tax havens, EU's tax commissioner said Friday.
SACRAMENTO, April 8 (UPI) -- O.J. Simpson is on the list of California's top 250 tax debtors, state records show.
EDINBURGH, Scotland, March 16 (UPI) -- Local authorities in Scotland plan to increase council taxes for part-time residents in an effort to prevent scenic villages from turning into ghost towns.
LONDON, March 9 (UPI) -- Scottish officials say that British Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling is trying to milk Scotch whisky as a "cash cow."
WASHINGTON, Feb. 29 (UPI) -- An economic adviser to the Bush administration, Keith Hennessy, said the chances of a U.S. corporate tax break this year appeared to be "very low."
BEIJING, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- The Chinese government announced Tuesday it will ban the use of plastic bags in stores.
CHICAGO, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- Beverage groups in Chicago sued the city over a 5-day-old tax on bottled water, alleging the tax violates state law.
MOSCOW, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- The Russian government has given notice to the British Council, a cultural group, it must close its 15 offices in the country by the end of the year.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- U.S. Senate Democrats are trying to avert reneging on pledges to rein in tax cuts not offset by matching revenue, a report says.
PORTSLADE, England, July 17 (UPI) -- An Englishman says his complaint that he had been overpaying property taxes backfired when local officials raised taxes for the rest of his neighborhood.
BEIJING, June 29 (UPI) -- China's legislature Friday authorized the State Council to reduce or cancel tax on bank deposit interest.
WASHINGTON, March 8 (UPI) -- Federal prosecutors in the nation's capital have asked a judge to send former Washington Mayor Marion Barry to jail on a tax evasion charge.
