“In the 1984 film The Terminator a work of fiction starring Arnold Schwarzenegger – artificially intelligent machines attempted to exterminate what was then left of the human race. In the appeal now before us, a man-made computer system did not go so far but, defying the will of those who programmed it, it caused significant grief and distress to those who had a right to rely on its accuracy.”
A release from the Office of Tax and Revenue simply reports that the the tax debt for TruOrleans, owned by James Redding, has been paid. Stadium Club was seized because of the unpaid taxes on Reeding’s now shuttered H Street NE restaurant.
D.C.’s Office of Tax and Revenue recently hit Google Inc. with a $300,000 tax lien. But it was just a clerical error.
A former employee of D.C.’s Office of Tax and Revenue pleaded guilty today to taking part in a scheme to file fraudulent tax returns that raked in $14.7 million in local and federal funds.
With the tax filing deadline approaching—it’s April 17 this year—here’s some handy info: more and more people are filing electronically in D.C., and they get their refunds faster.
One time, a friend of mine told me a story about this time he lost his keys.
Yesterday, authorities arrested four men in connection with a massive bribery scheme inside the Army Corps of Engineers. The details of the alleged crime should ring familiar for many D.C. residents.
Via NBCWashington.com, we’re sent to this link, which shows luxury items currently up for bid from a Texas auction house that is working with the U.S. Marshals Service to move all of infamous D.C. government embezzler Harriette Walters’ ill-gotten luxury goods. The items aren’t clearly labeled as having belonged to Walters, however, so we’re not sure if all of them were hers, or only some of them. Most of the items are attributed to…
Joe Englert’s got company. Following on the news that the D.C. Office of Tax and Revenue briefly closed the Argonaut today for back sales and use taxes, OTR released a list of seven other restaurants that met the same fate. Collectively, these restaurants owe more than $860,000 in sales taxes: INTI (1825 18th Street NW), Prince of Georgetown (3205 Prospect Street NW), Besta Pizza (5029 Connecticut Avenue NW), Porter’s (1207 19th Street NW), Prince Café…
Photo by furcafe Joe Englert’s H Street NE bar The Argonaut was closed last night, thanks to a dispute with the D.C. Office of Tax and Revenue, as Frozen Tropics reported earlier this morning. Englert tried to explain his side of what happened in a statement to the neighborhood blog, outlining a process that started with being notified that three of his businesses owed tens of thousands of in back sales and use taxes….
