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 The Chicago Tribune reports in its Sunday editions that indictments
over the past year and a half accuse at least 14 of the state's
roughly 2,400 gas station operators of illegally withholding a
portion of the sales taxes their customers paid at the pump.
But
that's just a fraction of the 651 operators the Illinois Department
of Revenue says has cheated the state.
Some $54 million in back sales taxes, interest and penalties have
been recouped, largely through settlements or after scofflaws came
forward under the threat of greater penalties.
[Associated Press]
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