Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...number of states have started crackdowns. Illinois hired 240 auditors and collectors last year, and increased the penalties for evading taxes from six months in jail and a $500 fine to one year and $1,000 for first-time offenders. It was able to collect $119.5 million in unpaid taxes and identify another $137 million owed. So far this year, it is doing even better, collecting $86 million and finding $78 million more in arrears. After adding
...public meeting held last Thursday evening, the Nuclear-Free Cambridge group outlined its plans before an audience of about 60 Carolyn H. Magid a member of the Nuclear-Free Cambridge steering committee said the group must collect at least 4000 signatures before August 1983 to place the referendum on the ballot...
...anti-PIRG effort at Boston College last year, several members of Young Americans for Freedom, a conservative group, attempted to provide incentives for students to collect their $4 refunds through an agreement with two local liquor stores. The agreement allowed for the purchase of $5 worth of liquor with the $4 refund check...
...expense at $3 million. Smaller banks, which have fought the hardest for repeal, say their cost per account would be higher because they have fewer depositors to share the expenses. Bankers contend that only a fraction of the outlay can be recovered on the "float," the interest banks can collect on withheld funds before the money is passed along...
This week's cover subject, Franklin Spinney, the Defense Department maverick who dares to challenge the Pentagon's most basic assumptions and procedures, can expect several packages in the mail from a small but dedicated group: readers who collect autographed TIME covers. These determined souls track down the address of each subject, then mail off the cover, requesting a signature. Some collectors have stalked their quarry for as long as six years; others have sent as many as twelve letters before landing signed trophies for their walls at home...