- August 30, 2014What do college football and professional auto racing have in common this Labor Day holiday weekend? Taxes. But not like…
- August 29, 2014Well that was fun. Nineteen tax seminars in a little more than two and a half days. I've parceled out…
- August 28, 2014A friend called me last week, freaking out about a telephone voice mail message she had received. An Internal Revenue…
- August 27, 2014Hello New Orleans! I mean, hello Orlando! That geographic confusion reminiscent of Spinal Tap happened at day two of the…
- August 27, 2014I'm on a business trip this week in Orlando, attending the Internal Revenue Service's final Nationwide Tax Forum of 2014.…
- August 26, 2014I'm back in Florida this week for the Internal Revenue Service Nationwide Tax Forum in Orlando. It's a bit of…
- August 26, 2014This work week, I'm in Florida, a place the hubby and I lived for six years and one of the…
- August 25, 2014Ways to pay for college get lots of attention. But if your kids are younger, there's also a tax-saving way…
- August 21, 2014Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife Maureen are on trial, facing charges of taking $177,000 in gifts and…
- August 20, 2014Companies turn to tax inversions to take advantage of lower rates elsewhere. Exactly where and how much lower? You can…
- August 19, 2014The biggest complaint about the U.S. tax system is that it gives Uncle Sam too much of our money. There are…
- August 17, 2014Thirty-seven years ago the musical world was in shocked mourning. Just a day earlier, Aug. 16, 1977, Elvis Aaron Presley…
- August 16, 2014August is half over. You know what that means. The final late-summer sales tax holidays are here. It once again took…
- August 15, 2014Most of the folks who participated in Pew Research Center's 2014 Future of the Internet canvass said they expect robotics…
- August 14, 2014The NBA is done with Donald Sterling. The California tax collector, however, might still have an interest in some of…
- August 13, 2014If school hasn't started in your area yet, it soon will. For many families, classes resume at college. And with…
- August 12, 2014Today I'm spending the day with my mother. It's a rare weekday visit, which allows us to take care of…
- August 11, 2014Cleveland sports fans were jazzed this weekend as Johnny "Football" Manziel had a quite promising debut in the Browns-Lions preseason…
- August 10, 2014Forty years ago yesterday, Aug. 9, President Richard M. Nixon resigned his office. I remember that event. I also remember…
- August 9, 2014Within hours of each other on July 22, two federal appeals panels issued opposing rulings on who is eligible for…
- August 8, 2014Shoppers are on alert in Texas and Maryland this weekend. Back-to-school sales tax holidays are on tap in these two states.…
- August 7, 2014Back in February 2013, the Federal Trade Commission reached a settlement under with a Beverly Hills, California, company accused of…
- August 6, 2014Walgreens, the Deerfield, Illinois-based drugstore chain that's been around for more than a century, is buying the remaining 55 percent…
- August 5, 2014Not surprisingly, voters have rejected a proposed tax hike. The loser this time is the ballot question in today's Missouri…
- August 5, 2014As we head toward the late summer peak of the Atlantic hurricane season, three storm systems are churning on opposite…
- August 5, 2014Before members of Congress left D.C. for their annual August vacation district work periods, they did pass a short-term funding…
- August 4, 2014Welcome to August. Summer is winding down, but that doesn't mean you get to slow down. In some locations school…
- August 3, 2014As a former cigarette smoker, electronic cigarettes fascinate me. I smoked not because I was addicted. I quit cold turkey…
- August 2, 2014And they're gone. After delaying their annual August recess for a day to complete some politically motivated votes, Representatives and…
- August 1, 2014Your highway tax dollars are back at work, at least through May 2015. The Senate approved a stopgap $11 billion transportation…
- July 31, 2014Senators are taking a shot at fashion bipartisanship today. After a two-year absence, Seersucker Thursday returned to the upper chamber.…
- July 30, 2014A dozen states welcome August with sales tax holidays. Three more will hold similar events deeper into the month. Massachusetts…
- July 30, 2014I know I alluded to kids and day camp not too long ago when our driveway was ground zero for…
- July 29, 2014The summer started with a Congressional effort to make it easier for travelers to see just how much taxes add…
- July 28, 2014The raw numbers are bad enough. Approximately 83,000 Department of Defense (DOD) employees and contractors had unpaid federal tax debt…
- July 27, 2014$16 million. That's how much in tax breaks CBS is eligible for by keeping The Late Show in the Big Apple.…
- July 26, 2014The Senate is expected to vote next week on a bill to refill the funding tank that fuels the nation's…
- July 25, 2014The debate on the use offshore tax havens has been heating up. On the individual side, the Internal Revenue Service…
- July 24, 2014Mississippi gets a lot of grief for being at the bottom of some national lists. But when it comes to…
- July 23, 2014On the heels of the conflicting Obamacare tax subsidy rulings by two federal appeals courts, we today had Affordable Care…