Word: wittig
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Winning by a narrow margin in his two House races, Hinchey may be too liberal for this rural midstate district. He supports strong environmental regulation, the pro-choice movement and AIDS funding. Opponent Sue Wittig is trying to exploit Hinchey's liberal soft spot, but he is counting on Ithaca, home to Cornell University, and the labor centers of Binghamton to send him back to Washington...
...WITTIG (R) District...
...Wittig, owner of Wallpaper World and host of a local cable-access show, The Washington Report, wants to apply her commercial acumen to legislation and attack the three threats to small business: taxation, litigation and regulation. In a district hit hard by IBM downsizing and where constituents worry about high taxes forcing companies south to Pennsylvania, Wittig's message has resonance...
Aside from shelters, tax sleuths uncover a remarkable variety of ingenious deceptions. Joseph Siegel, for example, worked as a commodities broker in Chicago and devised a scheme to record phony trades as paper losses, and then sold these records to other investors to use as write-offs. Frank Wittig, a former computer programmer in Minneapolis, allegedly tried the old trick of claiming deductions for which he did not qualify and then filing for an undeserved state-tax refund. After his first return netted him a refund check for $200 in 1978, he got much more active...
...state estimates that he amassed about $130,000. Wittig was charged last month with six counts of filing fraudulent state tax returns...