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Income Tax questions frequently asked

No one likes to pay taxes, but April 15th, 2025 is your last day for filing and paying 2024 Marietta City Income Tax and first quarter of your estimated taxes. Below are a few of the most frequently asked questions on who pays, and when taxes are due. What is the due date to file an income tax return for the City of Marietta? This year the due date is April 15th, 2025. Businesses are due four months after the fiscal year ends. What is the City of Marietta’s tax rate and what is taxable? Marietta’s tax rate is 1.85% on any earned income one receives from working and/or living ...

English, our official language

It is with pleasure and gratefulness I recall of coming and to American. American Government welcoming us to the USA. We were catapult from our Birth Country of Latvia. It was during the conflict of World War II. The conflict was between USSR and Germany. Many small European countries were in the path. After the WWII, we were placed into Camps. We were awaiting to be accepted by free world countries. We were keenly aware that when we immigrate to USA, we would have to adept and learn to speak English. The language of USA. President Trump’s executive order of making English our ...

Thank you to those of Marietta and Parkersburg

On behalf of the BJFM (Blues, Jazz and Folk Music) Society Board, the board’s officers would like to thank many in the greater communities of Marietta and Parkersburg for yet another successful River City Blues Festival, our 32nd. There are so many to thank that we hope that we don’t leave anyone out. First off, thank you to ALL the staff, including Launa Holden Morus, of the Lafayette Hotel, our venue who made the audience, musicians, and our board always feel so welcome. We greatly appreciate all the performers who appeared on our stage, sharing their talents and enjoyment of ...

Isn’t it time for what’s left of the USA to awake from its coma?

A legally documented Palestinian married to a US citizen is kidnapped in New York by law enforcement and disappeared. Welcome to Russia. Then Donald invites the world’s richest car salesman to prostitute the White House grounds into a sales lot with “free” advertising. King Donald is directly responsible for deaths of children around the world with his devouring of the US Agency of International Aid. Ukrainians supported by a large majority of US citizens against Putin’s blitzkrieg now are dying because of King Donald’s temper tantrum over President Zelensky’s ...

America Second

It seems that the agenda of Donald Trump’s second term is guided by a new slogan: America Second. The campaign to eliminate U.S.A.I.D. and efforts to undermine scientific research have allowed China to move into the #1 position among nations. Chinese leaders, unlike the current US president, recognize the nationalistic benefits of aid to foreign nations and achievements in science. These Chinese authorities must be pleased to see the US relinquish its world leadership.

If it walks like a duck

Donald Trump, JD Vance Elon Musk and Jim Jordan spew hatred and fascism almost non-stop. Trump comes from the ancestry in 1885 of Frederick Trump avoiding 3 years of compulsory military service in Germany by sailing to New York. Sound familiar? Musk’s ancestry supported Hitler and apartheid. Vance and Jordan may be newer to hate, but the Ohioans are doing everything they can to catch up with non-stop destruction of the former United States of America. The four haters are taking us back to the future. Anyone reading and paying attention may observe the obvious ...