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IRS: We’ll delay April 15 tax-filing deadline by one month — but there’s one caveat

The Internal Revenue Service said Wednesday it’s pushing the tax-filing deadline from April 15 to May 17.

“This continues to be a tough time for many people, and the IRS wants to continue to do everything possible to help taxpayers navigate the unusual circumstances related to the pandemic, while also working on important tax administration responsibilities,” IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig said in a statement Wednesday.

After a later-than-usual Feb. 12 start to the income tax filing season, the April 15 deadline was arriving too soon, according to accountants, certain lawmakers and advocates for elderly taxpayers. On Tuesday, more than 100 members of the House of Representatives signed a letter asking the IRS to postpone the deadline.

It’s also been a challenging time for the IRS. The tax collection agency was facing mounting pressure for more filing time — especially now that President Joe Biden signed a $1.9-trillion financial rescue bill packed with various tax-code changes.

The IRS has to put those changes into effect, especially one provision that waives federal income tax on the first $10,200 a person receives in jobless benefits. The IRS also has to distribute a third round of stimulus checks. By Wednesday, the IRS had already distributed 90 million economic impact payments, valued at more than $242 billion.

Last year, the IRS pushed the deadline to July 15 also due to the pressures from the COVID-19 pandemic. This year, the IRS was under pressure to push the deadline back pretty much as soon as tax season started.

COVID-related pressures

The IRS received 55.7 million individual income tax returns as of March 5. That’s 18% fewer returns than received on March 6, 2020. But at 22 days into the new filing season, the 55.7 million returns are almost 12% more returns than what the IRS received 26 days into last year’s filing season.

The May 17 deadline is the deadline to pay any taxes owed, and it is the deadline to submit a return. People can still get an extension to Oct. 15, but that’s only more time to send in a return and does not afford more time to pay taxes.

(The IRS can work out installment plans with taxpayers who can’t pay all their owed taxes at once.)

Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana residents still have a slightly longer timeframe to file their taxes. People in those states were previously given a June 15 deadline to file and pay taxes because of the debilitating winter storm that swept through those states in February.

One caveat to IRS announcement

There is one caveat, however. The IRS notes the extended deadline only pertains to federal income tax payments. It doesn’t affect a state’s income tax deadline.

Last year, however, states also pushed back their own deadlines. Last week, Maryland pushed its state income tax filing deadline to July 15, according to an announcement from Comptroller Peter Franchot.

One provision in the newly-passed rescue plan is making the tax season especially complicated. The law waives federal income tax this year on the first $10,200 a taxpayer receives in jobless benefits. The exemption applies to households making up to $150,000.

By the time the bill became law, many taxpayers may have already filed returns that did not claim the exemption. Tax professionals watching the scenario unfold say it’s best to wait a little bit for the IRS to issue guidance on what the fast-filing taxpayers should do next. They may need to file an amended return.

The IRS has said people who have already filed should wait and not file an amended return just yet. The agency still needs time to determine what these taxpayers should do, it said.

Rep. Richard Neal of Massachusetts, the Ways and Means Committee chair, and Reb. Bill Pascrell of New Jersey, chairman of the oversight subcommittee, said the extra breathing room was badly needed.

They applauded the IRS’s decision to extend the season, calling it “absolutely necessary to give Americans some needed flexibility in a time of unprecedented crisis.”

Victor Reklaitis contributed to this story.

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Former DNC head Perez 'taking a look at' Maryland governor bid

Former DNC head Perez ‘taking a look at’ Maryland governor bid

Perez was the secretary of labor for much of former President Barack Obama’s second term. He helmed the Maryland labor department under then-Gov. Martin O’Malley during the late 2000s and was previously elected to serve on the Montgomery County council, just outside Washington. The field in Maryland remains largely unsettled. On the Democratic side, longtime state Comptroller Peter Franchot has…

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CEO Accepts Position on Comptroller’s Advisory Board

In the state of Maryland committees and advisory boards are authorized by the Governor and or another principal executive department. Each committee or advisory board is tasked with the responsibility of maintaining the details surrounding a specific area of inquiry. Members of such committees and advisory boards are experts in their given realm, and are appointed, recommended, or elected into office. Members are expected to represent their communities by addressing and solving governmental issues fairly and in a timely manner.

In most recent days, our President and CEO, Claudine Adams has expanded her community duties, as she’s agreed to be a voice for us all via her newest role as a member of the Comptroller’s Business Advisory Council. According to marylandtaxes.gov “It is the responsibility of the Comptroller's Office of Maryland to provide the very latest tax and financial information to residents. In addition, it is incumbent upon every member of this agency to adhere to the three R's: treating taxpayers with respect, ensuring that we are responsive to taxpayer needs, and getting results in a timely manner.  It is our mandate to provide a transparency to how taxpayer dollars are spent, and what Marylanders get in return for their hard work. The Comptroller of Maryland and the entire agency stand at the ready to serve the taxpayers, vendors, and tax professionals of Maryland.”

Here Ms. Adams will participate in Comptroller Peter Franchot's quarterly forum and serves as a collective voice of experience on issues that affect Maryland’s economy and business climate. Claudine will use all of her years of business and entrepreneurial knowledge to become a valuable source of ideas for improving the taxpayer services provided by the Comptroller's Office.

Let us all congratulate our leader and wish her success in her newfound role!

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Md. state comptroller proposes state-level stimulus plan

Md. state comptroller proposes state-level stimulus plan

Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot. (Photo by Marvin Joseph/The The Washington Post via Getty Images) OAN Newsroom UPDATED 11:54 AM PT – Friday, January 1, 2021 A Maryland state official has been pushing for a state-level stimulus package aimed at helping state residents and businesses.  State comptroller Peter Franchot (D-Md.) detailed a plan this week which would take around $1 billion from…

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The event was held at Jewel of India restaurant, Maryland on May 19th, 2019 and was graced by the presence of Peter Franchot (the comptroller of Maryland), senator Susan Lee and Craig Zucker.

Dr. David K Pillai, received a governors citation, signed by the governor of Maryland the lt. Governor and the Secretary of state to honor and recognize his “commitment in promoting medical- Healthcare Education” and “Outstanding Global Leadership”  as a public acknowledgement of gratitude for his efforts to change and improve the quality of medical education at Davao Medical School Foundation.

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New story in Politics from Time: Baltimore Mayor Takes Indefinite Leave of Absence as Book Scandal Intensifies

(BALTIMORE) — Baltimore’s embattled mayor announced Monday that she is taking an indefinite leave of absence, just as a political scandal intensifies over what critics call” a “self-dealing” book-sales arrangement that threatens her political career.

Mayor Catherine Pugh’s office says she feels unable to fulfill her obligations as mayor due to deteriorating health brought on by a recent bout of pneumonia. “She’s been advised by her physicians that she needs to take time to recover,” her office’s statement said, adding that the City Council president will take over the Democratic mayor’s day-to-day responsibilities.

The first-term mayor’s abrupt decision to go on leave indefinitely came the same day that Maryland’s Republican governor asked the state prosecutor to investigate corruption accusations against the leader of Maryland’s biggest city and the state’s comptroller, a Democrat, urged Pugh to resign immediately.

In a letter to the state prosecutor released Monday, Gov. Larry Hogan said allegations facing Pugh and her questionable no-contract arrangements to sell her “Healthy Holly” children’s books are “deeply disturbing.” Hogan said he was particularly concerned about $500,000 in sales over seven years to a university-based health care system “because it has significant continuing ties with the State and receives very substantial public funding.”

Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot did not mince words: “The Mayor has to resign — now. The people of Baltimore are facing too many serious challenges, as it is, to also deal with such brazen, cartoonish corruption from their chief executive.”

Some emboldened members of Baltimore’s City Council also want Pugh to resign. Councilman Zeke Cohen asserted Monday that she’s “lost the moral mandate to govern and the public’s trust.” Another councilman, Ryan Dorsey, described Pugh as “an embarrassment to the city.”

The various officials’ calls came shortly after Kaiser Permanente disclosed that it paid $114,000, between 2015 and 2018, for roughly 20,000 copies of Pugh’s self-published “Healthy Holly” illustrated paperbacks for children. And it came about two weeks after news broke that since 2011, Pugh has received $500,000 selling her illustrated books to the University of Maryland Medical System, a $4 billion hospital network that’s one of the largest private employers in the state.

Pugh became Baltimore’s mayor in 2016. The next year, Baltimore’s spending board, which is controlled by the mayor, awarded a $48 million contract to the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Mid-Atlantic States Inc. Kaiser previously held that contract.

When asked who Kaiser bought the books from, company spokesman Scott Lusk said: “We purchased the books from Healthy Holly, LLC.” That is Pugh’s company, which she has said was meant to encourage healthy lifestyles.

Cohen noted that Pugh accepted money from Kaiser for her “Healthy Holly” children’s books at the same time the company was seeking a contract to provide health benefits to city employees. Instead of recusing herself from a Board of Estimates vote “she voted in favor of it,” he said.

Additionally, The Baltimore Sun reported that CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, another city health provider, effectively bought Pugh’s roughly 20-page illustrated books for $14,500 in 2011 and 2014. In a subsequent email, a CareFirst spokesman said it made contributions to Associated Black Charities, or ABC, a nonprofit that manages the city’s Children and Youth Fund, to fund its purchase and distribution of books. Associated Black Charities said in a statement that between 2011 and 2016, five organizations donated $87,180 to pay for the books, of which ABC kept $9,552 to use as “general support.”

The firm Pugh identified as her books’ printer said it has produced only 60,000 copies and doesn’t have any more orders from Pugh. She’s only acknowledged sales of her book to UMMS and said they were meant to be distributed to city schools and day cares.

The attorney representing the mayor, Steve Silverman, said the mayor looked “forward to cooperating with the state prosecutor and providing as much information as possible to put this matter to rest.”

Since the arrangement with UMMS came to light last month, Pugh has stepped down from the volunteer board and returned her most recent payment of $100,000 for the books. At a news conference last week, Pugh described the book deal with the university-based health care system as a “regrettable mistake” and suggested the school system needed to clear up confusion about where tens of thousands of books were.

But the school system has failed to unearth copies of the books outside of nearly 9,000 copies found stacked in a warehouse.

One of Maryland’s largest private employers, the UMMS paid Pugh $500,000 for 100,000 copies of books. There was no contract behind the deal and the hospital network described some of the purchases as “grants” in federal filings. Pugh — who once sat on a state Senate committee that funded the major health network before becoming mayor— served on the system’s board since 2001.

One-third of UMMS board members received compensation through the medical system’s arrangements with their businesses. Legislation is pending in Maryland’s capital focusing on board governance.

On Monday, John Ashworth, interim leader of the University of Maryland Medical System, said he believed nothing criminal took place by UMMS. But NYGREN has been chosen as an independent auditor, he said, to review financial relationships involving the UMMS and board members, among other things. They are due to start work this week.

By DAVID McFADDEN / AP on April 01, 2019 at 09:45PM

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Baltimore mayor goes on leave as book scandal intensifies

By DAVID McFADDEN

BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore’s embattled mayor announced Monday she is taking an indefinite leave of absence, just as a political scandal described by critics as a “self-dealing” book-selling arrangement intensifies dramatically and threatens her political career.

In a brief statement, Mayor Catherine Pugh’s office announced she feels unable to fulfill her obligations as mayor due to deteriorating health brought on by a recent bout of pneumonia.

“She’s been advised by her physicians that she needs to take time to recover and focus on her health,” her office’s statement said, adding that the City Council president will take over Pugh’s day-to-day responsibilities,

The mayor’s decision to go on leave came the same day that Maryland’s Republican governor called on the state prosecutor to investigate allegations of self-dealing by Pugh and the state’s comptroller, a Democrat, urged Pugh to step down immediately.

In a letter to the state prosecutor released Monday, Gov. Larry Hogan said recent allegations facing Pugh and her questionable arrangements to sell her illustrated “Healthy Holly” books are “deeply disturbing.” Hogan said he was particularly concerned about a $500,000 sale to a university-based health care system “because it has significant continuing ties with the State and receives very substantial public funding.”

Meanwhile, Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot said in Monday social media posts, “The Mayor has to resign — now. The people of Baltimore are facing too many serious challenges, as it is, to also deal with such brazen, cartoonish corruption from their chief executive.”

The two officials’ calls came hours after Kaiser Permanente disclosed that it paid $114,000, between 2015 and 2018, for roughly 20,000 copies of Pugh’s self-published “Healthy Holly” illustrated paperbacks for children. And it came about two weeks after news broke that since 2011, Pugh has received $500,000 selling her illustrated books to the University of Maryland Medical System, a $4 billion hospital network that’s one of the largest private employers in the state.

Pugh became Baltimore’s mayor in 2016. The next year, Baltimore’s spending board, which is controlled by the mayor, awarded a $48 million contract to the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Mid-Atlantic States Inc. Kaiser previously held that contract.

When asked who Kaiser bought the books from, company spokesman Scott Lusk said: “We purchased the books from Healthy Holly, LLC.” That is Pugh’s company, which she has said was meant to encourage healthy lifestyles for youngsters and their families.

Additionally, The Baltimore Sun reported that CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, another city health provider, effectively bought Pugh’s roughly 20-page illustrated books for $14,500 in 2011 and 2014. In an email, CareFirst said it made contributions to Associated Black Charities, a nonprofit that manages the city’s Children and Youth Fund, to fund its purchase and distribution of books.

It’s not clear whether this tranche of books is from another printing of “Healthy Holly” books, or from books University of Maryland Medical System had already bought and resold.

The firm Pugh identified as her books’ printer said it has produced only 60,000 copies and doesn’t have any more orders from Pugh. She’s only acknowledged sales of her book to UMMS and said they were meant to be distributed to city schools and daycares.

The mayor’s press office has referred calls to her attorney, Steve Silverman. Phone messages left at his Baltimore firm were not immediately returned.

Since the arrangement with Maryland Medical System came to light last month, Pugh has stepped down from the volunteer board and returned her most recent payment of $100,000 for the books.

At an evening press conference last week, Pugh described the book deal with the university-based health care system as a “regrettable mistake” and apologized for “any lack of confidence or disappointment” citizens and colleagues may be feeling. She provided five pages of paperwork, asserting they detail production and various deliveries of her “Healthy Holly” books to Baltimore’s school system. She also provided a copy of a January 2011 letter to the district’s chief academic officer describing a donation of 20,000 copies of “Health Holly: Exercising is Fun!”

One of Maryland’s largest private employers, the UMMS paid Pugh half-a-million dollars for 100,000 copies of her roughly 20-page books, arguably making her among the world’s most successful self-published authors.

There was no contract behind the deal and the hospital network described some of the purchases as “grants” in federal filings. Pugh — who once sat on a state Senate committee that funded the major health network before becoming mayor in 2016 — served on the system’s board since 2001.

One-third of UMMS board members received compensation through the medical system’s arrangements with their businesses, a revelation the governor has called “appalling.” Legislation is pending in Maryland’s capital focusing on board governance.

On Monday, John Ashworth, interim leader of the University of Maryland Medical System, said he believed nothing criminal took place. But NYGREN has been chosen as an independent auditor, he said, to review financial relationships involving the UMMS and board members, among other things. They are due to start work this week.

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OPINION:  She’s a Democrat what do you expect.  They’ve all read and studied the Democrat Handbook.  How to lie, cheat and still why holding an Public Office in this state/country.

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Comptroller Peter Franchot and Annapolis

Today's guest is Comptroller Peter Franchot. The Comptroller, who is running for Governor of Maryland, recognizes some Annapolis community heroes. We discuss MD's Tax Free Week, education, social justice issues, budget cuts, mail-in voting. facilitating homeownership for minorities, helping small business owners by streamlining permits/regulations and incentives for people to come work remotely in Maryland. The Comptroller mentions that he would like to see alcohol delivery continue after the pandemic!

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- https://stockholmsnus.fi/price/34168/ Podcast: New Hampshire Results; Trump Proposes Tobacco Agency; Brazil Sues Tobacco; Smoking Rates Drop Internationally By Michael McGrady - February 14, 2020 86 0 Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020 VAPING WEEKLY UPDATE PODCAST TRANSCRIPT Due to new federal laws governing tobacco and nicotine use including the marketing and dissemination of product information, Vaping Weekly is now only intended for adults aged 21 years and over. If you live in a state or jurisdiction that allows for younger, this podcast is then for those over the age of 18 years. Listener discretion is advised. I’m Michael McGrady, your host, and the public policy columnist for the English edition of VapingPost.com. Coming up, we will discuss the results of the New Hampshire primaries. Now, here is the news that vape shop owners, activists, and consumers need to know, published on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020. The results are in for the second presidential contest in the U.S. Voters in New Hampshire chose Bernie Sanders as their preferred choice for the Democratic nomination. Sanders slightly edged out Iowa winner Pete Buttigieg. Following the two: Amy Klobuchar, Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, Tom Steyer, and Tulsi Gabbard. Michael Bloomberg was not on the ballot in New Hampshire. For Republicans, Donald Trump beat challenger Bill Weld. Roque De La Fuente, the other supposed national challenger to Trump, brought in only a tiny fraction of the voted. At least Weld brought in over 10,000 votes. In the delegate race for the Democratic nomination, Buttigieg has a slim lead over Sanders with 22 to 21 delegates respectively. Following with a wide gap: Warren with 8, Klobuchar with 7, and Biden with 6. Democratic candidates will then go to Nevada for the party’s primary election on Saturday, Feb. 22. The state Republican party canceled the race automatically granting Trump the state. That’s about it on the campaign trail for now. You can stay up to date with the election with Vaping Post’s presidential election guide, featuring original analysis from the Post’s team of journalists. Now, here’s news some other news you might find interesting. Earlier, the Trump administration announced its annual budget request for the executive branch to Congress. One of the more quirky items is a proposal to defund the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Tobacco Products with the intention of spinning it off into a separate agency within the Department of Health and Human Services. There is no indication of this proposal’s impact on the budget. Also, note that the administration still is under a legal mandate to enforce the PMTA application deadline for May of 2020. The FDA, under federal law, is the only agency allowed to do so. The Massachusetts Public Health Council finalized the state’s vaping regulations. These regulations restrict the sale of flavored e-cigarettes to smoking bars and establish identification requirements for stores to verify the age of tobacco consumers. Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey also announced a new lawsuit against Juul Labs for (surprise) reportedly marketing their products to kids. However, this suit focuses on supposed marketing buys the company made on websites focused on kids and streaming sites for U.S. children’s networks like Cartoon Network or Nickelodeon. North, in Rhode Island, the state governor’s budget for the fiscal year for 2021 has vaping crackdowns planned. The budget proposal increases the state’s minimum legal sales age from 18 years to 21 years, which is currently federal policy. A proposed 80 percent tax on all e-liquid products is also attached to the budget. Elsewhere, on the U.S. east coast, a lawmaker in Maryland submitted the latest legislative proposal to ban the sale of flavored e-cigarettes within state lines. Maryland is also expected to be the first state in the union to ban disposable vapes through executive policymaking supported by the state’s comptroller, Democrat Peter Franchot. A proposed Florida bill would mandate the state Department of Business and Professional Regulation, which oversees sales of tobacco in Florida, to exercise new authority over retail establishments that sell e-cigarettes and other vape products. Vape shops in Florida currently are unregulated, according to the bill. In the far North, the legislature of the city of Anchorage (the largest city in the U.S. state of Alaska) is concerned that the city’s police department continues to issue citations to minors who are caught vaping in public. Rather, the city’s lawmakers want enforcement to be focused on non-compliant companies. In Idaho, lawmakers in the state Senate is also proposing Tobacco 21 policies to also conform to federal policies. For the case of business news, reports show that internal morale among employees at Juul Labs is at an all-time low. The main cause of this moral struggle is due to lawsuits, regulations, and increasing public scrutiny. In brief snus news, Swedish Match will increase production capacity again to compete with the growing nicotine pouch market in the United States. Swedish Match made a solid foray into the U.S. market with ZYN, a tobacco-free pouch product. In international news, the Attorney General in the Federative Republic of Brazil announced that the government will sue tobacco companies for causing public health harm to the country’s citizens. At the World Health Organization, new data shows that international male smoking rates have dipped. One of the key reasons, according to the global health body, is an effective policy landscape. In Australia, the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners officially endorsed e-cigarettes and the behavior of vaping as harm reduction to tobacco cigarettes. This is a noteworthy change, given Australia’s prohibition on nicotine-containing vapes. And, that’s the news. Thanks for listening! If you haven’t already, check out my interviews with David Goerlitz, the Winston Man, and New Zealand smoking cessation expert Marewa Glover. A new interview is coming soon. You can listen to Vaping Weekly on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, PocketCasts, or where ever you get your podcasts. Vaping Weekly is created and hosted by Michael McGrady. The editorial team for VapingPost.com also produces this show. Sound design and recording of this podcast are done at Perihelion Creations in Monument, Colorado. Vaping Weekly is presented by Anchor.fm. We are independent of big tobacco.

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MD to Award $9M to Five Wrongly Convicted Men

Maryland has reached a tentative agreement to award $9 million to five wrongly convicted men, including about $3 million — the state’s largest-ever such settlement — to a man who spent 39 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, the Washington Post reports. The settlements amount to $78,916 for each year of wrongful incarceration. It would be the first time in 15 years the state has approved compensation to exonerees. The men served a collective 120 years in prison and have waited as long as 20 months for the state to respond to their petitions. Kristen Lloyd, an attorney for Hubert James Williams, 67, who served 11 years for an attempted murder, said he signed papers to accept the offer while “crying happy tears.”

The other four men — Lamar Johnson, Jerome Johnson, Walter Lomax and Clarence Shipley Jr. — have accepted the state’s offer in principle. Gov. Larry Hogan said two weeks ago that the state would decide by month’s end how much to offer the men, who were seeking $12 million, or roughly $100,000 per year of incarceration. “Now I can finally move forward with my life,” said Lamar Johnson, 36, who was freed in 2017. He he plans to buy his mother a house and start his own business, buying houses in Baltimore to renovate and rent. He currently does maintenance work for Blue Ocean, a real estate company that has worked to help the exonerees. Jerome Johnson, who served 29 years, is suing the Baltimore Police Department, alleging that officers purposely withheld evidence in a 1988 for which he was wrongly convicted. Hogan decided to compensate the men after weeks of pressure from Comptroller Peter Franchot and Treasurer Nancy Kopp — who serve with him on the Board of Public Works — as well as dozens of state lawmakers.

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