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      <title>Damaged timber from the ice storm? Claim it on your federal income taxes</title>
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      <description>A workshop in Gaylord will walk landowners through the tax deduction process.</description>
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      <dc:creator>Ellie Katz</dc:creator>
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      <title>Group pushes for billion-dollars worth of tax credits for parents</title>
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      <description>The plan would give families with young children who qualify for the EITC an additional credit worth $5,000 for children under three and $2,500 for children between the three and six.</description>
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      <description>Michigan state officials followed up Wednesday on last week’s announcement that tax refund checks for the 2022 tax year could start going out to low- and moderate-income workers as soon as mid-February.</description>
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      <title>Final push underway to adopt MI tax credit in 2022</title>
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      <description>A final push is underway to get the state Legislature to expand a tax break for working poor people before the end of the year.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2022 23:44:16 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Tax breaks approved for proposed Big Rapids EV battery plant</title>
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      <description>A global electric vehicle battery manufacturer is considering Mecosta County for a multi-billion-dollar investment.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2022 22:52:41 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Patrick Center</dc:creator>
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      <title>Private school tax break campaign files initiative signatures</title>
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      <description>A petition campaign to extend tax credits to help fund private school scholarships turned in almost half a million signatures today.</description>
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      <title>Snyder calls on House to adopt new business tax break</title>
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      <description>Governor Rick Snyder is pushing for quick approval of a controversial tax break to help lure large employers to the state. Snyder said although Michigan…</description>
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      <title>Brownfields legislation heads to the governor’s desk</title>
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      <description>Big business investors are waiting on Governor Rick Snyder to give them a break. A tax break that is – to build on blighted land.The Senate gave final…</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 May 2017 15:17:32 GMT</pubDate>
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