Mark your calendar for Blog Action Day

September 27, 2009

What are you doing on Oct. 15? If you got an extension to file your taxes, you might be frantically filling out your 1040 that day.

But Oct. 15 is also Blog Action Day, or BAD.

On that Thursday, thousands of bloggers will focus on one issue that's important to the world. The 2009 topic is climate change.

You say your blog doesn't deal with ecological issues? That's not a problem.

In 2007, the inaugural Blog Action Day topic was the environment. I blogged about the various environmental tax breaks available that tax year.

Last year, the unifying issue was poverty. I blogged about the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC).

I'm still cogitating about how I'll approach climate change this Oct. 15. The obvious tax hook is cap and trade, but maybe I'll find something a bit more scintillating. We'll see.

If you're interested in participating, check out the Blog Action Day Web page, the BAD blog and its Twitter feed, @blogactionday (hash tag #BAD09).

We'll see you on Oct. 15, with some very last-minute tax filing tips and a Blog Action Day post, too.

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Hello Tax Season 2026

Happy New Tax Year! Are you ready to file your 2025 tax return? I know, too early to ask. But Tax Day 2026 will be here before we realize it. The Internal Revenue Service deadline to file and pay any tax we owe is the regular April 15 date this year. It’s also Tax Day for most of the states that collect income taxes from their residents, which is most of the states! If that seems too far away right now, don’t worry. As is the case every tax season, the ol’ blog’s tips and other tax reminders should help all of us meet our state and federal responsibilities. Procrastinators also will want to keep an eye on the countdown clock just below. It tracks how much time we have until April’s Tax Day, just in case we put off our annual tax task until the absolutely final hours and decide we need to instead get an extension request into the IRS by that date. (Note: I’m in the Central Time Zone, so adjust accordingly for where you live.)

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Eric

16 years ago Reply

I blogged for Blog Action Day in advance. I’m encouraging all of you to use the term “global warming” instead of “climate change,” and explain why in this post about environmental writing.

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Mark your calendar for Blog Action Day

Eric