Many Vehicles are Exempt from Indiana Fuel Taxes
If you paid fuel tax at the pump for agriculture, aviation, motor boats, taxicabs, public transortation, municipal vehicles, mining, manufacturing ,railroad business, refrigeration, or several other exempted uses you may be due a refund. Of course regular people who drive to work and to shop are not eligible.
Here is thr Form to File a for a Refund with Instructions:
Springleaf’s SEC Document Announcing Closings and Layoffs
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
DATE OF REPORT (Date of earliest event reported): March 5, 2012 (March 2, 2012)
Commission file number 1-06155
SPRINGLEAF FINANCE CORPORATION
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Indiana
35-0416090
(State of Incorporation)
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
601 N.W. Second Street, Evansville, IN 47708
(Address of principal executive offices)
(Zip Code)
(812) 424-8031
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)
Not Applicable
(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)
Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:
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Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)
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Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)
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Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))
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Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))
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Item 2.05
Costs Associated With Exit or Disposal Activities.
As part of a strategic review of our operations, on March 2, 2012, we informed affected employees of our plan to immediately consolidate certain branch operations and close approximately 150 branch offices in 25 states. The states affected are: Alabama, California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin. Customer accounts in the affected areas will be serviced by our other branches in those states or by other service centers.
Also as a result of these branch office closings, our workforce will be immediately reduced by approximately 360 employees. These reductions, collectively with all other staff reductions we made in the first quarter of 2012 relating to the branch closings we announced in February 2012 and subsequent staff reductions at our Evansville, Indiana headquarters, which did not result in material charges, represent a total reduction in our workforce of approximately 690 employees.
As a result of the branch closings announced on March 2, 2012 described above, we expect to incur a pretax charge in the first quarter of 2012 of approximately $12.5 million, the primary components of which are approximately $4.2 million in employee severance and outplacement services, $4.2 million in lease termination costs, and approximately $4.1 million in fixed assets disposals. These pretax charges, collectively with all other pretax charges incurred in the first quarter of 2012 for the branch closings we announced in February 2012 and subsequent employee reductions at our Evansville headquarters, represent a total pretax charge of approximately $20.5 million, the primary components of which are approximately $9.0 million in employee severance and outplacement services, approximately $5.9 million in fixed assets disposals, and approximately $5.6 million in lease termination costs.
The branch closings and staff reductions described above, along with the branch closings and staff reductions we announced in February 2012, as described previously in our Current Report on Form 8-K and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 2, 2012, are the result of our efforts to return to profitability. However, there can be no assurance that these efforts will be effective.
CAUTIONARY STATEMENT
This Current Report on Form 8-K contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Please refer to our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2011, our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2010, and our past and future reports and other information that we file with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a description of the business environment in which we operate and the important factors, many of which are outside of our control, which could cause our actual results and financial condition to differ, possibly materially, from those indicated in forward-looking statements. We are under no obligation (and expressly disclaim any obligation) to update or alter any forward-looking statement, whether written or oral, that we may make from time to time, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
SPRINGLEAF FINANCE CORPORATION
(Registrant)
Date:
March 5, 2012
By
/s/
Donald R. Breivogel, Jr.
Donald R. Breivogel, Jr.
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial
Officer
Evansville Redevelopment Commission Agenda: Tuesday, March 6, 2012 – 8:30 am
Evansville Redevelopment Commission
AGENDA
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 – 8:30 am
Civic Center Complex – Room 307
1. Call to Order
2. Approval of Minutes of February 22, 2012
3. Approval of Accounts Payable Vouchers
4. Design Review
Downtown
327 Main Street – Modish Clothing/Patti Tetherow – new signage
5. Downtown Redevelopment Area
12-ERC-09 – Authorizing Change Order No. 3 for the Downtown Traffic Flow Changes Phase 2
12-ERC-10 – Authorizing an Agreement for Use of Property for the Downtown Farmer’s Market
6. Other Business
Authorize signing of EPA cleanup letters – Dream Park
7. Adjournment
* This preliminary Agenda is subject to change. The final Agenda will be posted at the entrance to the location of the meeting prior to the meeting.
IS IT TRUE: March 5, 2012
IS IT TRUE: March 5, 2012
IS IT TRUE that Evansville’s Signature High School is in the news again for academic excellence?…that this time it is not for being named a TOP TEN high school in the nation?…that this time it is for setting an Indiana state record for the percentage of graduating seniors who pass an Advanced Placement test?…that 90% of the 61 seniors passed one of these tests that often result in college credit being granted to the student who passes the test?…that passing one AP exam that is recognized with 3 credits by a university saves that child or their parents between $500 and $5,000 depending on what college the kid goes to?…that the performance and ranking (7th in the United States) of Signature High School should be a badge of honor that everyone in Evansville wears proudly?…that just as we all rallied around to cheer on the Mater Dei girls basketball team to a state championship we should celebrate the academic achievements of Signature School?…that the following link is to the national rankings?
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/features/2011/americas-best-high-schools.html
IS IT TRUE that this Olympic level of academic performance from this downtown public high school does not seem to please everyone?…that there are many people in Evansville and especially within the ranks of teachers and administrators at the other public schools who openly detest Signature School?…that envy really does make for some strange statements?…that when educators start speaking poorly of academic achievement that it is time to shuffle the deck at the old schoolhouse?…that there is a valid point to be made regarding the admission process stacking the deck in Signature’s favor but there is some process in place that always seems to produce winners in wrestling at Mater Dei, football at Reitz, and basketball at Bosse?…that good programs attract good students and the same is true for Signature?…that any teacher or even private citizen of the Evansville community that denigrates the Signature School for excellence needs to have their priorities questioned and maybe even need their mouth washed out with soap?…that it is not a fluke that is able to maintain a national ranking for academic performance in Evansville, it is a process?…that the next highest ranked school in Indiana is ranked #153 and that only 5 make the top 500?…that if you want to use that phrase “it’s a good place to raise kids†as a business attraction tool for the area, that Signature School validates that claim to the kind of people that Evansville needs to attract and retain?
IS IT TRUE that the ball field idea for the Roberts Stadium location is eliciting the same negative reactions from the public at $8 Million that it did when it was $18 Million?…that even if a genie could grant the CVB and the former Mayor three wishes and go “poof there are ball fields for free†that a very large number of the people of Evansville would be opposed to them?…that the real ruckus that drives the opposition is the “magic of place†that Wesselman Woods has always had right in the middle of an urban setting?…that it is time for these ball fields that are harder to kill than Gregory Rasputin need to find another home and leave Roberts to the committee and Mayor Winnecke?…that the parrots singing the ball fields praises are beginning to sound like “the song that never ends†from Romper Room?…that Miss Peggy would be saying “Romper Stomper Bomper Boo, What does it take to get through to you” to the proponents of these ballfields.
Evansville: Evolution of a City
On March 27, 1812, Hugh McGary purchased 200 acres of land that became known as Evansville. This exhibition – a part of the Bicentennial celebration that recognizes Evansville’s 200-year existence – includes historic documents and artifacts relating to the early years of Evansville.
TSGS (Tri-State Genealogical Society) Meeting Notice – 3/13/2012
When: Tuesday 13 March 2012
Time: 7:00 PM
Where: Willard Library – 2nd. Floor
What: Monthly Meeting
A drawing for an attendance prize will be awarded at close of meeting… you must be present to win.
The Tri-State Genealogical Society will have a brief business meeting followed by a presentation by:
Becky West, TSGS Program Chair, has announced that the program will feature
Stanley A Schmitt will speak about “Civil War Evansville.” Stan holds a Degree in History
and has researched numerous historical and genealogical subjects over the past 30 years. He
is currently Vice-President of the Vanderburgh County Historical Society, Advisory Board
Member of the Canal Society of Indiana, member of the history committees for the Pigeon Creek
Greenway and the Evansville Bicentennial. His interest in Evansville during the Civil War is the
result of long time research of Willard Library’s newspaper collection. Some of this information
will be the basis of an online joint project by the Evansville Courier and the Vanderburgh County
Historical Society for the Civil War Sesquicentennial. Stan had four Great, Great Grandfathers
who served in the 38th., 42nd. and 44th. Indiana Regiments during the Civil War.
On 8 November 2011 Stan gave part one of this program, when time ran short, he agreed to
come back so that we could hear as Paul Harvey would say “The Rest of the Storyâ€.
This is a program you don’t want to miss, we will be looking forward to seeing you at the meeting and
enjoying a very interesting and informative program.
You do not have to be a member to come and learn at the society’s monthly meetings.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: This time of the year, weather conditions may cause the society to cancel
meetings… the decision to cancel usually is determined the day of the meeting, providing short notice.
Since a bad weather system may develop later in the day (or that night), check our blog (http://
tsgsblog.blogspot.com/) for cancellation notice or call Willard Library (812-425-4309).
Don Counts,
TSGS President
IS IT TRUE: March 4, 2012 “Chevy Volt = Solyndra on Wheels”
IS IT TRUE: March 4, 2012
IS IT TRUE that in yet another example of why governments should stay out of private business General Motors has now halted production of the Chevy Volt?…that yes this is the same Chevy Volt that President Obama was essentially the celebrity spokesperson for?…that furthermore it is the same Chevy Volt that GM was handed scads of dollars by the government to produce?…that yes this is the same Chevy Volt that was handed award after award by magazines seeking the favor of the Obama Administration for their pandering editorials and awards?…that if it were not for the federal bailout of GM that there would be no Chevy Volt to suspend the production of?…that this is the same Chevy Volt that will get you a $7,500 federal tax subsidy if you actually decide to purchase one for $41,000?
IT IS TRUE that just yesterday on the heels that Volt production will be suspended to balance the inventory that US Representative Michael Kelly stated that “when the market is ready the Volt will not have to be subsidizedâ€?…that even with federal subsidies at record levels on both ends of every Volt transaction that sales have failed to meet projections by nearly 50%?…that the Chevy Volt if it were a stand-alone business as opposed to the most subsidized product in the fleet of a company deemed too big to fail that it would already be known as “Solyndra on Wheelsâ€?…that this is what happens when governments try to force products onto the market before they are ready to meet consumer needs?
IS IT TRUE that California even allows a lone driver of a Chevy Volt to drive in the HOV lanes and avoid traffic jams?…that someday when the Volt has the range to make that worth doing and the power to keep up with the other HOV lane traffic this might be practical?…that today is not that day and Sacramento is just trying to curry favor with the Obama Administration by passing this useless law?…that this makes about as much sense as allowing the three staffers of the CCO all of whom are incapable of dunking a ball to dunk as will?…that such exemptions to rules may sound good but they make no sense and change nothing about day to day life?
IS IT TRUE that someday this country will be filled with electric vehicles and solar panels?…that day will come when the technology meets consumer needs at prices that consumers are willing to pay for the perceived benefits?…that the day that both of these things happens will be further down the road because of the Obama Administrations impotent exercise to force products to market before they are ready?…that this government meddling has probably set the solar and electric vehicle industries back by at least 5 years because money that could have and should have been spent to further develop the products was pumped into premature manufacturing facilities and marketing campaigns for snake oil?…that we must ask just who is the Carnival Barker now?
