- July 28, 2013Congress is about to go on its annual August recess without coming to an agreement on a farm bill. The…
- July 26, 2013By the end of today, we should know what tax laws U.S. senators think should remain (or be added to)…
- July 25, 2013Edith Windsor, the woman whose estate tax lawsuit led the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate the Defense of Marriage Act…
- July 24, 2013It's that time of year again. Parents are down to their last nerve as summer vacation seems to drag on…
- July 23, 2013Mark your calendars, Philadelphia-area taxpayers. The chairmen of the House and Senate tax-writing committees want to hear your thoughts on…
- July 23, 2013Prince Charles is no doubt enjoying his new status as a grandfather. But the king in waiting (and waiting and waiting)…
- July 22, 2013Congratulations to the new royal parents on the arrival of the future king of England. Kate Middleton, officially known as…
- July 21, 2013How attractive is the Unites States tax system? Not very, according to a recent analysis by two German economists. In…
- July 20, 2013It's always a pain to get a place ready to sell. But tax officials are facing some special problems in…
- July 19, 2013The Motor City is getting a lot of attention today. Unfortunately, it's because Detroit has filed for bankruptcy. Detroit, Mich.,…
- July 18, 2013The chairmen of the House and Senate tax-writing committees agree that overhaul of the huge and complicated U.S. tax code…
- July 18, 2013Everyone makes tax mistakes, even the Internal Revenue Service. That was again made clear earlier this month when the IRS…
- July 17, 2013IRS Principal Deputy Commissioner Daniel Werfel spent most of this afternoon (July 17) answering questions from the House Small Business…
- July 17, 2013Later today, IRS Principal Deputy Commissioner Daniel Werfel will go before the House Small Business Committee to discuss the agency's…
- July 16, 2013The Internal Revenue Service will be open for business on July 22. Next Monday was to be the fourth agency-wide…
- July 16, 2013Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), former chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, wants to know why the country's top prosecutor decided…
- July 15, 2013The Internal Revenue Service is back on the hot seat this week, as two House committees will again look into…
- July 14, 2013The good news from CCH's latest look at the U.S. tax code is that the number of pages in the…
- July 12, 2013Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer who was jailed for his part in revealing alleged collusion between Russian mobsters and government officials…
- July 11, 2013Many states enacted new laws on July 1 when their new fiscal years began. Several of the changes included sales…
- July 10, 2013If the acting Internal Revenue Service chief has his way, all tax agency employees will be working -- and getting…
- July 10, 2013With the arrival of July last week, I posted half a dozen tax moves for you to consider. This week…
- July 9, 2013Tropical Storm Chantal, the third named system of the 2013 Atlantic hurricane system, is churning toward the United States. Homeowners,…
- July 7, 2013One of the most contentious portions of the Affordable Care Act, also known by its acronym ACA or Obamacare, is…
- July 6, 2013James Gandolfini's unexpected death last month in Italy is back in the news, this time because a large portion of…
- July 5, 2013We just celebrated America's 237th birthday, but the land of the free is far from that when it comes to…
- July 5, 2013If your kids are too old for day camp, then maybe they a job to fill their class-free summer hours is…
- July 4, 2013America's battle for independence from Great Britain was propelled in large part by our battle against unfair taxation. Since that's…
- July 3, 2013How many of you are still working this afternoon, the day before the July 4th holiday? And how many of…
- July 3, 2013I'm a big science fiction fan so I've always hoped that time travel would one day be possible. Then I…
- July 2, 2013Would a $1,000 payoff make you quit complaining about mistreatment by the Internal Revenue Service? That's an idea National Taxpayer…
- July 1, 2013Anyone who has gone head-to-head with an auditor has probably felt like the examiner was staring straight into their tax-paying…
- June 30, 2013The Supreme Court on June 26 declared the Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, dead. That same day, Attorney General…
- June 29, 2013We never got to see more than a couple of Mitt Romney's tax returns during the last presidential campaign, but…
- June 28, 2013Lois Lerner refused to talk to the House Oversight Committee during a hearing into charges that conservative groups seeking tax-exempt…
- June 27, 2013The eyes of the tax world (OK, maybe just the eyes of tax geeks like me) have been focused on…
- June 26, 2013Can you hear the cheering? It's still going on and it's coming from gay and lesbian couples, their families and…
- June 26, 2013Yes, I know, you've heard this by now, but the Defense of Marriage Act, aka DOMA, is dead. Kaput. Off…
- June 25, 2013Are you ready for some football? Yes, I know the NBA (thanks, Spurs, for the effort) and NHL (congrats, Blackhawks)…
- June 25, 2013The Internal Revenue Service's chief acknowledged on Monday, June 24, that agency employees reviewing groups' applications for tax-exempt status had…