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Government Accountability Office

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is the audit, evaluation, and investigative arm of the United States Congress.

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  1. Families Race to Adopt Before U.S. Tax Credit Ends

    Julie and Brett Redden are in a hurry for the paperwork to go through for the 6-year-old girl they are planning to adopt from China.It's not just that they are impat...

  2. Lenders Lobby Regulators Over Mortgage Standards

    Mortgage lenders and consumer groups have launched at frenzied round of lobbying over one of the major issues financial regulators face from the 2008 financial crisi...

  3. The Obstacles to Reforming the Tax Code

    Former CBO Director Douglas Holtz-Eakin on the challenges reforming the U.S. tax code and the need to rein in government spending in conjunction with any tax reform.

  4. GSA: Another Example of Need for Government Spending Reform?

    Citizens Against Government Waste President Tom Schatz on the government’s wasteful spending.

  5. Prepare Your Own Tax Return

    Admit it. You're afraid of your 1040 . That's OK. A lot of us are. And our tax fears, sometimes irrational, sometimes warranted, cause us to do a lot of dumb things ...

  6. Exclusive: Taxpayers Paid for GSA Intern Conference

    It's not just workers at the General Services Administration who enjoyed lavish trips. GSA interns also got their own taxpayer-paid junkets. New revelations in GSA i...

  7. McKesson Wins Renewed $4 Billion/Year VA Drug-Supply Contract

    The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded drug wholesaler McKesson Corp. (MCK) a contract worth about $4 billion a year to supply medication to VA faciliti...

  8. GSA Scandal Worsens

    GOP congressmen probing the growing scandal at the General Services Administration about its waste of taxpayer money now tell FOX Business that they've uncovered evi...

  9. Protests Delay Veterans Affairs Drug Contract Award

    A U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs contract award for more than $4 billion in yearly spending for medicine at VA facilities has been held up by protests from two ...

  10. IRS Already Gearing Up for Health-Care Crackdown

    The rest of the country may be waiting for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide the fate of President Barack Obama ’s health-care law, but the Internal Revenue Service i...

  11. New Tax Preparer Requirements: More Than Meets the I…RS

    This column is an example of why, in this age of tweets, Facebook posts, and 20-second sound bites, it’s precarious to accept the superficial. I appreciate that we’r...

  12. DOE Poor Documentation of Solyndra Loan

    FBN’s Gerri Willis on the Department of Energy’s poor documentation of loans given in its green energy loan program.

  1. Winners and Losers 3 Years After Credit CARD Act

    In the three years since President Obama signed landmark credit card reforms into law, are consumers or banks better or worse off?Banking industry representatives ha...

  2. Will IRS Pay Me Interest on Tardy Tax Refund?

    Dear Tax Talk, I filed my tax return on Jan. 26, 2012, and was accepted the same day electronically. I was supposed to get a tax refund due on Feb. 14, according to ...

  3. Over 55 and Jobless, Americans Face Tough Hunt

    Jean Coyle, 67, has a new kind of ministry.The former professor had just begun a career as a Presbyterian minister in Virginia when the economic downturn forced her ...

  4. Credit Card Protection Plans Draw State Lawsuits, Federal Scrutiny

    If you have a credit card, you've probably heard the pitch. It comes from a telemarketer, or perhaps from a mailer included with your statement, and warns that "life...

  5. Report Sees $15 Billion Profit From AIG Rescue

    The U.S. government may wind up posting a profit of more than $15 billion from the rescue of American International Group Inc., according to an independent projectio...

  6. Report Sees $15 Billion US Profit From AIG Rescue

    The U.S. government may wind up posting a profit of more than $15 billion from the rescue of American International Group Inc. (AIG), according to an independent pro...

  7. GAO : U.S. Could Make $15 Billion On AIG

    The federal government could ultimately take in $15 billion more than the total amount of financial assistance extended to American International Group , according t...

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