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...tenants facing evictions are members of minority groups, according to Terry Sutton, one of the few tenants whose eviction case was dismissed after she notified the court that the management "wouldn't accept my rent payments" but kept prosecuting her for non-payment...
...effect, less may become more for farmers. Last December the Administration proposed a novel corrective: a self-imposed grain drain called payment in kind (PIK) that rewards farmers in Government-owned grain for idling large tracts of productive land. The program, hastily cobbled together to prop up the flagging farm economy, has prompted a response that was, said Agriculture Secretary John Block, "beyond my wildest expectations." Figures announced last week show that farmers will remove 82.3 million acres of wheat, corn, sorghum, cotton, barley, oats and rice land from production in 1983. This amounts to roughly one-third...
...reported $1,000 in tips to the IRS, but more experienced waitresses told her she was being "silly." The only response from the IRS, two years later, was to tell her that she also owed $60 in Social Security taxes on the $1,000, plus a $50 late-payment penalty. Says she: "I accepted the tax. But a penalty? Come...
...Capone, the Caesar of the Chicago gangland, was never convicted of murder, robbery, kidnaping, extortion or even bootlegging. But Treasury agents nailed him for evading payment of $1.2 million in taxes from 1924 to 1929, and the mobster was sentenced to eleven years in federal prison in Atlanta...
...adviser to Pharaon, became suspicious and cautioned him to pay no more money and to obtain collateral for the $14 million. It was too late. Tannoury returned with news that the Venezuelans had pulled out of the deal, and that he and Pharaon had lost their $33 million down payment...