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The Internal Revenue Service orders FedEx Corp. to pay back taxes and fines totaling $319 million for ground employees the firm misclassified as independent contractors. More: continued here

Dec. 21 (Bloomberg) — FedEx Corp., the second-largest U.S. package-shipping company, will have to pay $319 million in back taxes and penalties for misclassifying ground-delivery workers as contractors in 2002. More: continued here

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NEW YORK (AP) — Gunmen hijacked a FedEx delivery truck loaded with Christmas presents early Friday on a Manhattan street, officials said. More: continued here

Fedex Corp said on Friday that the U.S. Internal Revenue Service found that its FedEx Ground independent contractors should be reclassified as employees for tax purposes and that the company faced related taxes and penalties of more than $319 million for 2002. More: continued here

Bungling crooks hijacked a FedEx truck filled with Christmas packages Friday – but left empty-handed because they couldn’t figure out how to open containers holding $1 million in merchandise, police said. More: continued here

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IRS orders FedEx to pay $319 million in driver row More: continued here

FedEx was ordered to pay $319 million in back taxes by the IRS over a disagreement on how the company classified workers for its ground-delivery business, it said in a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission Friday. More: continued here