- December 26, 2012Welcome back from your holiday festivities. I hope you got everything you asked of Santa. Not to run the Jan.…
- December 25, 2012Merry Christmas! I hope you got everything you wanted this year. For most of us of a certain age, the…
- December 24, 2012Sure the Pope gets a lot of attention thanks to the annual Christmas services at the Holy See. But just…
- December 23, 2012Not to be a Grinch on the eve of Christmas Eve, but while we wait for the fiscal cliff to…
- December 22, 2012When Congress and the President return to Washington, D.C., Obama wants lawmakers to consider a stripped-down measure -- dare we…
- December 21, 2012If you itemize your deductions and you're like me, you will spend the waning days of the year looking over…
- December 21, 2012OK, it's an easy joke, but you knew it was coming. It's also quite possible that Dec. 20, 2012, marks…
- December 20, 2012Where has 2012 gone? The year wraps up just 11 days! But that's still plenty of time to pay heed…
- December 20, 2012You've got to give House Speaker John Boehner credit. He's united a diverse group of lawmakers, lobbyists and policy groups…
- December 19, 2012What was that terrible noise? Oh, it was some of the holdings in your portfolio crashing. So sorry. But you're…
- December 18, 2012Unless you're a couple of tax professionals, the Internal Revenue Code probably had very little to do with your courtship.…
- December 18, 2012Enjoy your online Christmas shopping Massachusetts residents. When the 2013 holiday shopping season rolls around, Amazon will start collecting sales…
- December 17, 2012One of the first songs any Texas child learns begins, "The stars at night are big and bright, deep in…
- December 17, 2012Could it be? Could the country be slowly backing away from the fiscal cliff? Late Friday, House Speaker John Boehner…
- December 16, 2012December is definitely the season for giving. And tax-related gift are the focus of the fourth installment of Reindeer Year-end Tax…
- December 16, 2012Is your NFL team losing? Simply bored with the games on in your area? Then it's the perfect time to…
- December 15, 2012Santa Claus' trusty reindeer don't have to report for work until Christmas Eve. So with time on their hands hooves,…
- December 15, 2012Pay no tax before it's time. That old tax axiom generally is good advice. But not necessarily this year. That's…
- December 14, 2012Welcome back to reindeer year-end tax tip games 2012. Today's holiday themed tax tip (number two of nine) is coming…
- December 13, 2012Christmas is less than two weeks away, so Santa and his elves are working furiously to make every boy's and…
- December 13, 2012One of the first foreign language films I ever saw was The Return of Martin Guerre. Gérard Depardieu was so…
- December 12, 2012And the march toward the fiscal cliff goes on. Over at my second tax home Bankrate, my story on some…
- December 12, 2012Welcome to 12-12-12, the last repeating-number date of the century. The repetition of 1s and 2s has prompted a lot…
- December 11, 2012Do taxes influence your behavior? If not, maybe it's because you just don't have the tax gene. Jason M. Fletcher,…
- December 10, 2012Alan Simpson, longtime U.S. Senator who's now better known as part of the Simpson-Bowles budget deficit reduction plan, belies (and…
- December 10, 2012This weekend I was sorting through some stories on the difficulty that Congress has in reaching an agreement on tax…
- December 9, 2012Concern about tax-exempt religious groups literally using a bully pulpit to get their congregants to vote a certain way apparently…
- December 8, 2012In October, a federal appeals court ruled that a New York widow was unconstitutionally discriminated against because the Defense of…
- December 7, 2012It's starting to look like any fiscal cliff deal will include higher taxes next year on wealthier taxpayers. The question…
- December 6, 2012Most of the time, an inheritance is welcomed. Except when it brings an unexpected tax bill. That's the situation some…
- December 5, 2012Do you own stock or mutual funds that pay dividends? It doesn't matter whether you're getting the earnings as cash…
- December 5, 2012Oh how I dread the day that Bart, Homer and the rest of The Simpsons are no longer on the…
- December 4, 2012Thank you lawmakers in Washington, D.C., for complicating our 2012 year-end tax decisions. And by thank you I mean get…
- December 3, 2012President Obama spent about an hour this afternoon on Twitter answering a few questions about fiscal cliff consequences, proposals, negotiations…
- December 2, 2012Pardon me for detouring from strict tax topics, but an article in today's New York Times about widows in foreclosure…
- December 2, 2012All I want for Christmas is a fiscal cliff deal. Silent night as tax talks between Congress and the president…
- December 1, 2012It's the most wonderful time of the year ... for pharmacies and doctors. Year end is when people scramble to…
- November 30, 2012Those numbers geeks at the Tax Policy Center are at it again. They've come up with a fiscal cliff tax…
- November 29, 2012As you've already figured out by my presence here today, I did not win the Powerball drawing last night. In…
- November 29, 2012Every day we become more reliant on technology. Americans spent nearly $1.47 billion on Cyber Monday, a 17 percent increase…