(Source: Associated Press, April 17, 2013)
CHICAGO — A Chicago-area transportation agency on Wednesday alleged companies including AT&T, Sears Holdings Corp., Verizon and Target are running “sham” offices as part of a scheme with two small northern Illinois communities to avoid paying millions of dollars in taxes in Chicago and Cook County.
The Regional Transportation Authority released the names of companies or their subsidiaries that it contends have dozens of small offices in Kankakee and Channahon – some upstairs from a cash for gold business and a hair braiding shop – where it says little if any work is done and often nobody so much as answers a knock on the door. And in many cases, according to the RTA, there are no signs on the street or office directories in the buildings that identify these companies as tenants.
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