http://hamptonroads.com/taxonomy/term/554 Category: Consumer en-us Copyright 2012 PilotOnline.com / HamptonRoads.com. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:31:53 -0500 RICHMOND Virginian and home borrowers in the state will receive about $479.6 million in relief from a $25 billion settlement between states and five mortgage lenders over foreclosure abuses. Federal and state officials announced the deal today. http://hamptonroads.com/2012/02/va-get-4796m-benefits-settlement Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:28:50 -0500 CHESAPEAKE Cox Communications Inc. has teamed with a Pennsylvania logistics company to operate a warehouse on Indian River Road for testing, repairing and shipping cable equipment such as TV set-top boxes. http://hamptonroads.com/2012/02/cox-communications-open-new-testing-site Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:49:32 -0500 RICHMOND As retailers from around the state lobbied lawmakers to end a sales tax loophole for online merchants, a state senator said one of the biggest beneficiaries, Amazon.com, is in talks with state officials about a tax deal. http://hamptonroads.com/2012/02/amazon-talks-virginia-about-tax-deal-lawmaker-says Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:49:09 -0500 NORFOLK The Norfolk Police Department announced Tuesday that its economic crimes unit and the U.S. Internal Revenue Service are investigating Mo' Money Taxes. Dozens of local customers have said Mo' Money, a tax preparation company, has repeatedly delayed giving them their refund checks. http://hamptonroads.com/2012/02/norfolk-many-unhappy-returns-tax-firm Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:52:40 -0500 NORFOLK More than 70 people waited, some for hours, outside the empty Mo Money Taxes office on Granby Street late Monday. Maybe this time they would receive their refunds from the tax-preparation company. Several said Mo Money had broken promises over the past two weeks to provide the checks. http://hamptonroads.com/2012/02/customers-norfolk-tax-firm-await-promised-refunds Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:42:29 -0500 NORFOLK The number of workplace discrimination complaints declined locally last year, running counter to the national trend. The Norfolk office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission received 968 complaints in fiscal 2011, down 5.6 percent from 1,025 the year before, the agency reported a week ago. http://hamptonroads.com/2012/02/discrimination-complaints-drop-locally Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:22:31 -0500 Cox Communications Inc. has added a television service option that cuts the price of its most popular package for fewer of its channels. The new TV Economy tier offers 60 channels, including all the local affiliates of the broadcast networks and 18 digital channels, for $34.99 per month. http://hamptonroads.com/2012/02/new-cox-offer-cheaper-tv-fewer-channels-0 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:12:45 -0500 Dominion Virginia Power has received approval from the State Corporation Commission for a power plant in Warren County - and a new monthly fee for customers to pay for it. The fee will add about 65 cents to the bills of residential customers who use 1,000 kilowatt hours of electricity per month, as of April 1, according to the commission's order Thursday. http://hamptonroads.com/2012/02/dominion-gets-ok-new-plant-and-fee Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:47:42 -0500 Turns out Walmart isn't the low-price leader after all - at least not if you're in the Navy. According to a price comparison survey released by the service Wednesday, sailors who shop at Navy base exchanges save an average of 23 percent, compared with shopping at civilian retailers. And that doesn't include what they save by shopping tax-free. http://hamptonroads.com/2012/02/navy-survey-base-exchanges-save-users-23-percent Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:32:42 -0500 By Tony Romm  Google is pushing back against complaints about its new privacy policy, saying users can still prevent the company from linking all the data it collects about them by turning off their search history, by skipping some of Google’s offerings or by using different Google accounts at different times. http://hamptonroads.com/2012/01/google-pushes-back-privacy-concerns Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:52:49 -0500