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...filing under the Tax Reform Act of 1986, a law that was widely expected to make the code not only fairer but simpler as well. Yet taxpayers now contemplating one of their least-favorite civic duties seem to be of one mind. "The new system stinks," said Angel Martinez, a retired Army jungle-warfare expert, as he emerged from an information session at an Internal Revenue Service taxpayer-assistance office in Brooklyn. "I went to college for three years, and now I can't even do my own taxes." The record keeping alone has overwhelmed Arlene Lind, a San Francisco...
...their money, the drug barons may have brought only a superficial prosperity to Medellin. "Their money hasn't created much employment because they haven't invested in productive infrastructure," says Juan Gomez Martinez, publisher of Medellin's biggest daily newspaper, El Colombiano (circ. 100,000), and a candidate for mayor. "They have spent a lot of money on imported luxuries." Escobar, for example, is said to have imported gold-plated bathroom fittings for a penthouse he frequently used. His wife had more shoes in her closet, according to local lore, than Imelda Marcos. The penthouse was abandoned by the Escobars...
...cartel's gunmen are thought to have struck as far away as Eastern Europe; a year ago Enrique Parejo Gonzalez, Colombia's Ambassador to Hungary, was ambushed in Budapest. Last November men armed with guns attacked the home of Juan Gomez Martinez, a candidate for mayor of Medellin who vows to fight the drug scourge if he wins an election scheduled for March 13. They missed their target, and Gomez Martinez now campaigns under the protection of six bodyguards...
Rookie Republican Governor Bob Martinez hoped to finance the future with a 5% tax on the services industry, Florida's largest and fastest-growing sector of the economy. The tax, which became law last July, affected services from pet grooming to lawyers' fees. It was expected to produce $800 million in the first year and provide a solution to the state's need for money...
...September, Martinez called for a repeal of the tax amid a blizzard of criticism from advertisers, real estate agents and citizen groups who complained about inequities and red tape. Last month the legislature replaced the services tax with a penny increase in the state sales tax. Critics contend that the new 6% duty will raise no more than half of the estimated $52.9 billion that Florida will require for roads, schools, prisons and hospitals in ten years...