I’ve been writing for, well, I’m not going to tell you how long!
But I will admit to writing specifically about taxes since 1999.
I started my tax blog, Don’t Mess With Taxes, on Nov. 14, 2005. Feel free to poke around and see the type of tax topics that appeal to me and my writing style in explaining them.
While taxes are far from simple, my goal in blogging about them is: Translate taxes into money-saving English.
Here’s what some folks have to say about me and my blog:
One of my favorites is Kay Bell (@taxtweet). She’s funny, smart and good. Her blog won the National Association for Women in Communications Clarion Award in 2012 [SKB note: and in 2014 and 2017] as the year’s best Personal Blog. She recently explained the potential tax liability for people who bet on the Super Bowl (In case you’ve been out of touch, the Seattle Seahawks crushed the Denver Broncos) and used the late Pete Seeger as a hook to talk about the tax liability of married couples who file jointly (Hint: they share it). … If you want a respite from the drudgery of taxes, turn here. She also has a really cool Web site called “Don’t mess with taxes.” Those from Texas — Bell’s a native Texan — will love the name of her Web site, the rest of us will love her tax commentary.” — Joann Weiner, Washington Post, Feb. 5, 2014
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“This blog by Texas journalist Kay Bell aims to provide tax and personal-finance tips and advice ‘that will put more money in your bank account, not the government treasury.’ Ms. Bell, who previously worked for the House Ways and Means Committee in Washington and now writes about taxes for Bankrate.com, offers different approaches to make taxes less taxing. She often puts advice in a social or historical context. For instance, in honor of Alexander Graham Bell’s birthday on March 3 — and while lamenting the recent bombardment of calls from candidates soliciting votes — she discussed the scenarios in which U.S. taxpayers can get a break on phone use. In other recent posts, she breaks down the economic-stimulus rebate with information that pertains to families with children, the elderly and state-by-state variations that residents should watch for.” — Beckey Bright, Wall Street Journal, March 31, 2008
But wait, there’s more.
Since no one, not even a dedicated tax geek, can live by taxes alone, I’ve also written general personal finance articles, some money-themed pieces for corporate clients, and taken on a few non-financial assignments, like my motorsports column for a national transportation publishing company.
Here are links to some of the books and articles I’ve written over the years for various clients.
My first book: A guide to saving thousands of tax dollars over your lifetime.
“The Truth About Paying Fewer Taxes”
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Bankrate.com Tax Guide:
An Annual Manual to Filing Your Taxes
Tax Channel/Guide
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Santa, Scrooge and 10 more Christmas icons unknowingly offer money advice
12 money tips from holiday ‘experts’ (online version)
12 money tips from holiday ‘experts’ (Word version with images)
More of my books
- Kay Bell helps you build
a solid tax foundation in
“Personal Finance: An Encyclopedia
of Modern Money Management”
- Kay Bell breaks down taxes
and estate planning
for millennials in
“Future Millionaires’ Guidebook”
- A collection of Kay Bell
stories is included in
“The Gambler’s Guide
to Taxes: How to Keep
More of What You Win”
If you’d like to see more of my portfolio or discuss a potential project, e-mail me at dontmesswithtaxes @ gmail dot com (email address edited to prevent spamming).
She Redden
I just read the story you had on Ohio’s verification quiz back in 2015. This supposedly is to prevent fraud. My husband and I travel with the pipeline and are on the road constantly. We have our mail sent if we are gone from home more than 2 months. We received the letter 1 week after we filed but did not get our mail in time. Ohio gave us 3 only 30 days from the time the letter was sent to take the quiz. Now it sais we have to send 4 documents and if we itemized they want a copy of all deductions sent to the IRS. It will be 6 months before we may be able to get the $411 they owe us. Next time we work in Ohio we think it may be best to claim 20 kids so we will owe them and not have to take the quiz. We can just cut a check. The sad thing is the Rover Pipeline went through the entire state in 2017 and another one is going through in 2018. Everyone we know received this letter late. Think the interest and people that just dont worry about the smaller refunds should be bailing them out of all the fraud they have supposedly lost. We also had our taxes prepared by H&R Block. They need to have something added at the time they are prepared letting people know this is going to happen so they can take care of it before it’s to late. Just thought you may want to be aware of the downside to new tax policies. Can you imagine how much they are holding from the thousands of pipelines that worked in the state in 2017.
Ben
I admit that you are a prolific writer. Tax is never easy topic for non-finance guys but who wouldn’t like this.
Ed Hanes
Try some of the tax blog and courses on SurgentCPE. They now have Tony Nitti from Forbes.com. Some great stuff on tax that really compliments this blog. Nice work!
AlfaSunshine
Yay! It’s time to start thinking about taxes again…
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