- May 7, 2014You can pick on Cleveland and its sports teams all you want, but you've got to hand it to Browns,…
- May 6, 2014Two housing related surveys were released today. I didn't need to read them to know what they said. I had…
- May 5, 2014We saw this coming. Congress is getting in on the whacking of Donald Sterling. The owner (for now) of the…
- May 4, 2014Yeah, I watched the White House Correspondents Dinner last night. I admit it. As well as being a tax geek…
- May 3, 2014Tonight could be the end of the 2014 season for the Los Angeles Clippers. They face the Golden State Warriors…
- May 2, 2014The names are pretty self-explanatory. The Stop Wasteful Federal Bonuses Bill. The No Bonuses for Tax-Delinquent IRS Employees Act of…
- May 1, 2014May is here. Finally. After a long and brutal winter, May's flowers and warmth are very, very welcome. So are…
- May 1, 2014Sorry Florida online shoppers. Effective today, May 1, Amazon is now collecting sales tax on your purchases. t's not just…
- April 30, 2014If you just discovered an error on an old tax return, you might be able to correct it. All you…
- April 29, 2014The reinstatement of the extenders, those 50 or so tax laws that regularly expire ad must be renewed by Congress,…
- April 28, 2014The cinematic chronicling of Frank Underwood's Machiavellian ways in House of Cards will continue in Maryland. State officials and the…
- April 26, 2014All in all, it was a pretty uneventful tax filing season. The relatively smooth 2014 filings probably are due in…
- April 25, 2014Welcome to Tax Crime Friday! On the heels of reports of doctors being targeted in a nationwide identity theft scheme…
- April 25, 2014Tax identity thieves this filing season apparently have a new top target: doctors. Hundreds of physicians across several states and Puerto…
- April 24, 2014Your federal income tax refund finally arrived and it was less than you expected. What's the deal? It could be…
- April 23, 2014The Internal Revenue Service's policy that allows it to award bonuses to employees who haven't paid their taxes is wrong.…
- April 22, 2014Since my mom moved to the Austin area three years ago, I've been driving the 100 or so round-trip miles…
- April 21, 2014Just days before the April 15 filing deadline, the Internal Revenue Service reported that most taxpayers had already submitted their…
- April 20, 2014Many folks spent Easter, either the full weekend starting on Good Friday and ending on this important Christian holiday, going…
- April 19, 2014Almost 40 million people age 65 or older currently collect Social Security benefits. Vice President Joe Biden is one of…
- April 19, 2014Last week, millions of us filed our 2013 income taxes. So what are Uncle Sam's plans for our money? Several…
- April 18, 2014Missouri knows how to celebrate Earth Day, April 22. It's smack-dab in the middle of the state's annual Show-Me Green…
- April 17, 2014April 15 came and went without you. Maybe you had a good excuse for not filing. Much better, I hope,…
- April 16, 2014I've occasionally jotted a note on a 1040. Usually it was to bring Internal Revenue Service attention to an attachment…
- April 16, 2014For most of us, tax filing season 2014 is over. Around 10 million of us, however, asked the Internal Revenue…
- April 16, 2014Tax Day 2014 has passed. Thank goodness! While it was a pretty tame tax season -- enough so that the…
- April 15, 2014April 15 is finally here! You can celebrate after you file something. As today's final 2014 filing season Daily Tax…
- April 14, 2014John Paul Pinette, the portly comic who is probably most recognized as the carjacking victim who set in motion the…
- April 14, 2014It's one day until the tax filing deadline. Are you panicking yet? Don't. You've got time. Technically, we have a…
- April 14, 2014Despite shutting down its system completely for most of last week after the Heartbleed bug was revealed, the Canada Revenue…
- April 13, 2014Good news, Canadian taxpayers. Canada Revenue is back! Canada's taxpayers normally don't have to file their annual tax returns until…
- April 13, 2014The hubby and I typically owe Uncle Sam every April 15. Usually not much, but some. We also tend to…
- April 12, 2014Thank you, thank you very much. OK, Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen didn't exactly do his best Elvis Presley impersonation.…
- April 11, 2014This old clip from The Simpsons highlights why most of us nowadays, even after the Heartbleed bug online security scare,…
- April 11, 2014As of the end of March, more than 90 percent of taxpayers who had submitted their 2013 federal returns -- around…
- April 10, 2014Every tax filing season we hear the stories. Folks claim, often successfully, a variety of wacky tax deductions. There's the…
- April 9, 2014Just when you thought tax season couldn't get any crazier, computer problems are plaguing the U.S. and Canadian tax agencies.…
- April 8, 2014We're a week away from Tax Day 2014. Some folks, however, are dreading the months, and possibly years, after the…
- April 7, 2014What do you remember more about ABBA? The 1970s Swedish pop quartet's outrageous outfits or the catchy songs? If you…
- April 5, 2014It's that brief time of year here in Central Texas when there's a bit of chill in the evening air,…