- June 5, 2012It's been one of those crazy days (weeks, actually, and it's just Tuesday!) where I think about having a cigarette.…
- June 5, 2012Ginny Hopkins had been waiting and waiting and waiting for her federal tax refund check. After all, $754 was a…
- June 4, 2012On June 4, 1912, Massachusetts enacted the first minimum wage law in the United States. The Bay State's wage law…
- June 3, 2012The Internal Revenue Service doesn't need campaigning politicians or government statistics to know that many folks still are having a…
- June 2, 2012Thursday, May 31, was World No Tobacco Day. Yeah, it slipped right past me, too. And while it looks like…
- June 1, 2012Same-sex couples generally must do twice the work at tax-filing time than traditional husband and wife taxpayers. That's because the…
- June 1, 2012Welcome to summer! OK. So the hottest season of the year here in the Northern Hemisphere doesn't officially begin until…
- May 31, 2012First $250,000 was designated the dividing line between wealthy taxpayers and the rest of us mere mortals. Then along came…
- May 30, 2012You just got home from a quick Memorial Day holiday trip, but if you're planning more travel this summer, you…
- May 30, 2012We humans are a funny, and stubborn, lot. It seems that, as the saying goes, we are doomed to repeat…
- May 29, 2012It's primary day here in Texas. Thank goodness! I'm a life-long political junkie, but I've gone beyond even caring about…
- May 28, 2012Memorial Day, originally known as Decoration Day, was established just after the Civil War as a way to remember the…
- May 27, 2012As the April filing deadline neared, I asked did a crook file your taxes? For many folks in Florida, the…
- May 26, 2012The arrival of the Memorial Day weekend, the unofficial start of the summer vacation season, means it's time for my…
- May 25, 2012Today is one of those days that really makes you think twice, or more, about commemorations and the state of…
- May 24, 2012Summer is almost here and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is getting in the spirit of the season. The nonpartisan…
- May 23, 2012May is not a fun month for a lot of homeowners. It's when many property appraisers send out notices of…
- May 22, 2012The Internal Revenue Service is going the way of the U.S. Postal Service. Wait. Let me clarify that. I'm not…
- May 22, 2012Just in case your Tuesday was feeling a bit too blah, here's a quick tax tidbit courtesy Bill Maher's HBO…
- May 21, 2012Today was just the second day of trading for Facebook stock, but the consensus is that the company priced its…
- May 20, 2012It's been quite a week for Mark Zuckerberg. The Facebook founder turned 28 on Monday, May 14. On Friday, he…
- May 19, 2012Do you travel to other states to do your job? Then you probably know the hassle of figuring out the…
- May 18, 2012Home is where the heart, and tax savings, are for Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin. That home now is in Singapore.…
- May 17, 2012When Congress was debating whether to extend the 2 percent payroll tax cut, one of the key arguments for keeping the…
- May 16, 2012I can't watch Hoarders. First, those people are scary. And their houses are gross. But I also avoid the show…
- May 15, 2012Sen. Charles Grassley is blowing the whistle on the federal tax whistleblower office. The Iowa Republican, a long-time supporter of…
- May 14, 2012Family farms are among the most iconic of American symbols. That's why these patches of agrarian productivity often are invoked…
- May 13, 2012If you got a federal tax refund the last two filing seasons, chances are that your check from Uncle Sam…
- May 13, 2012Happy Mother's Day! I'm spending this Sunday with my mother. Like most moms, she doesn't want anything extravagant on her…
- May 12, 2012Small businesses are made the most welcome in Idaho, Texas, Oklahoma and Utah, according to a recent analysis by Thumbtack.com,…
- May 11, 2012This post was updated March 30, 2018. When the end of matrimony leads to the start of alimony, each parting…
- May 10, 2012You can learn a lot about your neighbors just by walking around the area. Take the kids who live seven…
- May 9, 2012With Mother's Day coming up this Sunday (there's still time to get a card in case you forgot!), today's Weekly…
- May 8, 2012You've probably heard that Amazon reached deals with Nevada and Texas to start collecting sales taxes from customers in those…
- May 7, 2012Vice President Joe Biden was at it again this weekend being voluble Joe Biden. Appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press"…
- May 6, 2012Is the charity you just donated to still on the Internal Revenue Service's OK list? The answer is important not…
- May 5, 2012Happy Cinco de Mayo. Today is the commemoration of Mexico's victory in 1862 at the Battle of Puebla over the…
- May 4, 2012This week's employment report was blah at best. The Labor Department today reported that hiring slowed for the second straight…
- May 4, 2012Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley on May 2 signed 294 bills passed by the legislature into law. Guess which one got…
- May 3, 2012If anyone doubted that the excise tax on tanning would pay off, they only need look at Patricia Krentcil. She…