Word: collectivity
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...form. He also wants to raise the $50-per-quarter minimum amount that triggers Social Security taxes, set back in 1954, to $75. (Thanks to inflation, the $50 minimum would come to $600 today.) Experts argue that raising the standard much higher could deny many employees the chance to collect Social Security benefits...
Malin said he suspected that the new rule, which applies to all foreign students and visiting scholars, is an attempt to collect taxes from foreign students who might be unaware of correct tax regulations. Foreign undergraduates at Harvard said yesterday they had not yet been informed of the new regulations...
There are coaches who would sell their soul to the devil for the kind of situation rookie Harvard squash Coach Bill Doyle stepped into this year. Sell their soul, and not even mention Daniel Webster when the ol' Evil One comes to collect...
After the final bets were in, Okiki, a 13-year-old honor student, sat stony- faced at her desk in English class, silently preparing to collect a couple of hundred dollars on a dare. She had settled on a simple plan. Just wait for the bell to ring, reach into her book bag, grab the 12-in. fillet knife she had brought from home and stab the teacher in the chest while Marlena, a 12- year-old accomplice, pinned her down. Then -- whoosh -- instant respect...
Catching cheaters is another problem for the IRS because the agency does not ask citizens whether they employ household workers. But tax dodgers are sometimes snared when domestics retire and apply for Social Security benefits, only to find that they cannot collect because their employers never paid the taxes. The dismayed workers then often turn in their miscreant bosses. The penalty for cheating can be twice the amount of the overdue taxes plus interest...