U.S. Department of the Treasury

50 years ago: School board buys Shucks Corner property for Harford Junior College

2012-05-14 00:00:00

As taken from the pages of The Aegis dated Thursday, May 17, 1962: The board of education announced that it was purchasing Prospect Hill Farm at Shuck's Corner as a new site for Harford Junior College. The purchase price for the 204-acre farm was $204,...

Planned BWI-Cuba flights delayed until October

2012-02-21 15:11:00

Plans to begin weekly flights to Cuba from Baltimore have been pushed back to October because of lack of demand, the head of the travel company offering the service said Tuesday. The flights were to begin next month. William Hauf, president of Tampa,...

Good-bye paper savings bonds

2011-12-29 04:00:00

Technology has overtaken the U.S. savings bonds. After this year, you will no longer be able to buy a paper bond. All purchases will be made electronically. By going totally electronic, the government is expected to save $120 million over five years. You...

Advocates, lawmakers plan fight to restore commuter tax break

2011-12-25 14:44:38

Commuter advocates and Maryland lawmakers say they will fight to renew an expiring tax credit that benefits mass-transit users, including MARC riders. Current federal law allows commuters to withhold up to $230 in pre-tax income each month that can be...

Attorney: Manning showed signs of distress in Iraq

2011-12-17 16:31:38

Military prosecutors building a case against the 24-year-old Army soldier accused of sending hundreds of thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks sought to show Saturday that Pfc. Bradley Manning had access to the secret documents and the ability to...

Feds investigating BWI flights to Cuba

2011-11-17 19:08:00

It was undoubtedly exciting news: Baltimore would become one of the few spots in the U.S. offering flights to Cuba, a Communist nation largely off-limits to American travelers. But one critical item had been overlooked: the paperwork. The Florida travel...

Perryville has $1.3 million surplus, audit says

2011-12-07 17:51:00

A representative with the accounting firm Weyrich, Cronin and Sorra reported that the town of Perryville ran a surplus of $1.3 million for the financial year that ended June 30. Reporting on the town's audit for the spending year, the representative...

Feds target mortgage modification scams

2011-12-02 05:04:00

The new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has teamed up with the Treasury Department and — this is a mouthful — the Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program — to shutter mortgage modification...

Retirees face the risk of outliving their money

2012-02-06 14:49:00

Until recently, retirement planning focused mostly on helping workers accumulate savings. Now, the Treasury Department is tackling another aspect: making sure retirees don't run out of money. The department last week proposed two regulations to make...

BWI flights to Cuba to start in March

2011-11-05 16:49:00

A Tampa-based company plans to begin offering flights next spring from BWI-Marshall Airport to Cuba, where travel has been restricted since 1961, shortly after Fidel Castro took power and nationalized U.S.-owned businesses. But visitors shouldn't count...

Wells Fargo moves into a city it helped devastate

2011-09-15 09:22:00

This weekend you may notice former Wachovia branches around Baltimore getting a makeover, swapping out their old logos for brand new Wells Fargo signs. While Wells Fargo has been busy promoting the new and improved services customers will receive,...

We probably shouldn't attack Iran, but we shouldn't tell them that

2011-10-17 03:00:00

Should we bomb Iran for plotting to blow up a Washington, D.C., restaurant in order to assassinate the Saudi ambassador? Probably not. Should Iran be worried that we might? Absolutely. And yet, within hours of the Justice Department charging...

The U.S. Treasury building in Washington.

2012-04-13 00:00:00

U.S. Department of the Treasury Internal Revenue Service 1040 Individual Income Tax forms. Tax Day often sees a spike in fatal car crashes, according to the Journal of the American Medical Assn.

2012-04-11 08:27:47

The Treasury Department says that AIG, Ally Financial and GM's chief executives will have their compensation packages frozen at last year's levels.

2012-04-06 00:00:00