- April 15, 2015April 15 is for more than just filing last year's taxes. There are six other individual tax-related tasks that are…
- April 15, 2015"Laughing and crying, you know it's the same release." Although that Joni Mitchell line from People's Parties has no connection…
- April 14, 2015Electronic tax filing continues to grow. The Internal Revenue Services had received almost 91 million e-filed returns through April 3.…
- April 13, 2015April 15 is Wednesday. Don't panic. You can do it. I know because I'm in the same boat. I've spent…
- April 13, 2015Wednesday is Tax Day. Those of us who've yet to file (guilty!) our taxes have until midnight our local time…
- April 12, 2015Every year, we have to deal with a few new tax laws. This year the biggie is the Affordable Care…
- April 11, 2015This showed up in my snail mail box today: Working for the nation's tax collector has never been an easy…
- April 11, 2015I know I just extolled the virtues of tax credits over tax deductions. But you don't have to pick one…
- April 10, 2015Tax deductions, whether itemized or above-the-line, and tax credits can save you money, but they do so in different ways.…
- April 9, 2015This post was reviewed and some links updated on Thursday, April 6, 2017. It's one thing to make an innocent…
- April 8, 2015Tuesday was a dark day at the Internal Revenue Service. Literally. The tax agency's downtown Washington, D.C., headquarters was among buildings in the national capital hit…
- April 8, 2015This post was reviewed and updated Wednesday, April 5, 2017 A sin of omission basically is a failure to do…
- April 7, 2015It's that time of year again. No, I'm not talking about the rapidly approaching tax-filing deadline. (Yikes, can we slow…
- April 6, 2015No, this is not another nag reminder from me to report your NCAA men's basketball championship winning bets as income…
- April 6, 2015Thank you Matthew Weiner and Mad Men writers for another tax tidbit in last night's return of the show. When the…
- April 5, 2015Alabama smokers now pay 42.5 cents in taxes on each pack of cigarettes they purchase. If the Yellowhammer State's governor…
- April 3, 2015The economy is picking up, but mostly for folks who already are doing OK. Others, however, find that their low-wage…
- April 2, 2015Answers like these are why I so love Jeopardy. The correct question is, of course, "What is self-employed?" I really…
- April 2, 2015Finally! April is here, bringing with it Tax Day. Wait. Don't freak out. You still have plenty of time to…
- April 1, 2015Lois Lerner, the former head of the Internal Revenue Service's Exempt Organizations Division and the GOP focal point in the…
- April 1, 2015"We no longer pay performance awards to employees who have willfully failed to pay their taxes." Critics of the Internal…
- March 31, 2015We're two weeks away from the annual tax return filing deadline. For most of us, that means we're stuck tax-wise…
- March 30, 2015Full disclosure: I didn't watch HBO's documentary on the Church of Scientology last night. We don't get the premium channel…
- March 29, 2015March Madness is almost over. As with taxes, numbers are critical. We've gone from the First Four to the Select…
- March 27, 2015A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that I was ready to take a break from tax season. I'm now…
- March 25, 2015You're finally ready to sit down and do your taxes. Are you sure? The only thing worse than filling out…
- March 24, 2015As a homeowner who every year thinks that my local tax assessor has a much too inflated opinion of my…
- March 23, 2015When Downton Abbey showed up on PBS back in 2011, the hubby and I were avid viewers. We're both Anglophiles,…
- March 22, 2015Allgreens, a medical marijuana dispensary in Denver, has won its cash payment battle with the Internal Revenue Service. The IRS demands…
- March 20, 2015This blog post was updated March 7, 2017 March has been a medical month for me. There is one good…
- March 19, 2015Uncle Sam is the biggest basketball fan for the next few weeks. He might not care that much which college…
- March 18, 2015Everybody in the official tax world apparently wants to know what we regular taxpayers think about our tax system and…
- March 17, 2015Everybody puts on the dog for St. Patrick's Day, even sartorially conscious and/or wannabe Irish pooches. Dog dolled up for…
- March 16, 2015Not only is it a Monday -- and a freakin' crazy one, at least for me! -- it is exactly…
- March 15, 2015I can't imagine leaving my tax refund in Uncle Sam's hands for years. But then, I usually don't get a…
- March 13, 2015This second Friday the 13th of 2015 is pretty scary for folks with money in the stock market. With just…
- March 12, 2015One of the benefits of a do-nothing Congress, at least from lawmakers' perspective, is that all the uncompleted work offers…
- March 11, 2015Comprehensive, complete tax code rewrite? Not a good idea. It simply puts off the possible when it comes to improving our…
- March 10, 2015About this time every tax season, I start wanting to take a vacation. Maybe this year I should take a…
- March 8, 2015Next week should be fun. U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew says that unless Congress increases the federal debt ceiling, the…