- May 23, 2013There apparently was no constitutional recourse that Lois Lerner could use to stave off actions of her own employer. Lerner…
- May 23, 2013While the man who previously was in charge of the Internal Revenue Service was being lambasted by the House Oversight…
- May 23, 2013The Internal Revenue Service was able to push off sequestration effects until the main tax-filing season ended, but time has…
- May 22, 2013It's been one of those days -- don't ask, or I'll never stop! -- so I'm really looking forward to…
- May 22, 2013The Internal Revenue Service executive whose apology blew the investigation into the agency's improper use of screening criteria for tax-exempt…
- May 20, 2013Clear your calendars tax wonks and scandal mongers. Two more Congressional hearings are scheduled this week to make political points…
- May 19, 2013Admit it. For the last week or so, the song "Take the Money and Run" has been playing continuously in…
- May 19, 2013One Powerball ticket for last night's $590.5 million lottery jackpot was sold at a grocery story in Zephyrhills, Fla. The…
- May 18, 2013Here we are again. Eight weeks after gamblers were having a field day putting money on a big Powerball jackpot…
- May 18, 2013Last week was wild in D.C. Three separate hot button issues erupted into what are being termed by many as…
- May 17, 2013The Internal Revenue Service has become the ultimate reality show. Although the way the agency dealt with a crush of…
- May 17, 2013Good news for some tax preparers. If you paid for testing under the Internal Revenue Service's nascent system of regulating…
- May 16, 2013If you've never worked in Washington, D.C., you have no idea of what's really important in the nation's capital. It's…
- May 15, 2013The first head has rolled in the wake of the Internal Revenue Service's mishandling of applications by conservative groups for…
- May 15, 2013You remember the summer of 2010. That was when the Tea Party movement showed that it was a group to…
- May 14, 2013What did IRS officials know and when did they know it? If you're of a certain age, you immediately recognize…
- May 13, 2013If there is one good thing about the Internal Revenue Service's ham-handed handling of political organizations' applications for tax-exempt status,…
- May 13, 2013At every Internal Revenue Service Nationwide Tax Forum I've attended, the display table that attracts the most attention is the…
- May 12, 2013This is the third Mother's Day that my mom has been within easy driving distance. For most of my adult…
- May 11, 2013Our neighborhood just finished up its spring community garage sale. Twice a year, May and October, my neighbors who want…
- May 10, 2013Nevada's live entertainment tax, or LET, brings in around $136 million during the state's two-year budget cycle. A revamping of…
- May 9, 2013During my early years in Washington, D.C., when folks got worked up about an issue, they wrote their members of…
- May 9, 2013You thought the Internal Revenue Service was persistent. U.S. tax collectors can't hold a candle to their French counterparts. France's…
- May 8, 2013A congressional committee's recent look into ways to reform the tax code highlighted the many tax breaks that homeownership offers.…
- May 7, 2013As expected, the Marketplace Fairness Act breezed through the Senate. Late Monday (May 6) afternoon, the Senate approved the measure…
- May 7, 2013I believe New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie when he says he decided to undergo weight-loss surgery because he wants to…
- May 5, 2013Happy Cinco de Mayo!* The fifth of May commemorates the Mexican army's 1862 victory over France at the Battle of…
- May 4, 2013Many of my friends are at Kentucky Derby parties today. It's not so much that they are horse or horse…
- May 2, 2013You'd think judging by the size of the check I had to write the U.S. Treasury this year, my tax…
- May 1, 2013Happy May Day. For many, this is a day to celebrate workers. Of course, a variation of the holiday's name…
- May 1, 2013When things aren't going well, most of us have plenty of ways to explain what's going wrong. Now we can…
- April 30, 2013We made it through prime tax-filing season with the Internal Revenue Service's proposal to regulate tax professionals in legal limbo.…
- April 30, 2013Former heavyweight champ Mike Tyson can still deliver a punch. This time, though, it was a conservative talk show host…
- April 29, 2013I'm sure you had your own fun stuff to do Saturday night, so you might have missed the Barry and…
- April 28, 2013One of the biggest frustrations this tax filing season was the processing delay of around 600,000 returns because of improperly completed…
- April 27, 2013I quit smoking cold turkey more than 30 years ago as a gift to the hubby. But every now and…
- April 26, 2013Online shoppers are grumbling about the very real possibility that they'll soon be paying state (and local) sales tax on…
- April 25, 2013Being a Grammy winning, critically acclaimed, platinum record selling singer-songwriter can sure come in handy if you're in tax trouble.…
- April 24, 2013Everyone makes mistakes now and then. (Don't tell the hubby that I admitted that!) When it comes to mistakes on…
- April 23, 2013Not to get too wonky, but this could affect you, me and our taxes. Sen. Max Baucus, Montana's senior U.S.…