{"id":228595,"date":"2026-03-20T14:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T14:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/228595\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T14:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T14:15:09","slug":"michigan-matters-sizing-up-oakland-county-and-tax-season-plays-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/228595\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan Matters: Sizing up Oakland County and tax season plays out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oakland County Executive Dave Coulter will appear on Michigan Matters this Sunday to discuss his county&#8217;s performance during a challenging economic period, drawing on his experience running the municipality for over six years.<\/p>\n<p>Coulter also updated the county&#8217;s upcoming move to its new offices in downtown Pontiac and when that might take place.<\/p>\n<p>He shared the county&#8217;s effort to have more affordable housing and help residents in need retire their medical debt.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/dave-coulter.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"dave-coulter.jpg \" height=\"465\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Oakland County Executive Dave Coulter<\/p>\n<p>                Tim Lawlis\/CBS Detroit<\/p>\n<p>Then, with only a few weeks left before the April 15 tax filing deadline, Priscilla Perkins, president and CEO of Accounting Aid Society, Susan Tompor, a financial columnist at Detroit Free Press, and Angela Aaron-Benifield, Department Director of Financial Mobility Services at Wayne Metro Community Action Agency, talk about what people need to know if they haven&#8217;t yet filed their taxes.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/priscilla-perkins-susan-tompor-angela-aaron-benifield.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"priscilla-perkins-susan-tompor-angela-aaron-benifield.jpg \" height=\"465\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Priscilla Perkins, Susan Tompor and Angela Aaron-Benifield<\/p>\n<p>                Tim Lawlis\/CBS Detroit<\/p>\n<p>They also talked about a new senior tax for folks over 65 this year, making less than $75,000 a year, and other deductions people might want to know more about.<\/p>\n<p>Perkins and Benifield discussed their organization&#8217;s efforts to help people in need with financial needs with their taxes.<\/p>\n<p>Tompor also talked about looking ahead to next year and what they can do now to help gear up for a few new changes in tax laws.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oakland County Executive Dave Coulter will appear on Michigan Matters this Sunday to discuss his county&#8217;s performance during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[103833,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-228595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-michigan-matters","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}