(Anchorage) – Department of Revenue (DOR) Commissioner Lucinda Mahoney released the preliminary Fall 2021 forecast Friday. The Department has previously published an early estimate of the state’s revenue picture when prices have strayed significantly from the preceding official forecast. Today’s forecast illustrates the state’s revenue improvement of an additional $1.2 billion for FY 2022 and […]
WASHINGTON – Millions of pages of former U.S. President Donald Trump’s tax returns and business documents have been turned over to New York prosecutors after he lost a 17-month effort to keep investigators from obtaining them. The records, including the federal income tax returns Trump filed with the government’s Internal Revenue Service from 2011 to […]
“The unreasonable prefunding mandate has threatened the survival of the USPS and placed at risk vital services for the millions who rely on it.” A bipartisan, bicameral group of lawmakers introduced legislation this week that would scrap an onerous 2006 mandate requiring the U.S. Postal Service to prefund retiree benefits decades in advance, an obligation that’s been […]
JUNEAU, Alaska — Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development is announcing issuance of the Lost Wages Assistance benefit beginning Nov. 6, 2020. Over the past six months, the Department of Labor and Workforce Development has implemented eight distinct federal and state program changes helping Alaskans with additional financial resources and extended periods of […]