- 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…
- May 2, 2012Every year there seems to be a new tax refund horror story. The big one in 2011 was mass delays…
- May 1, 2012Paul Hogan, better known to American moviegoers as Crocodile Dundee, and Australian tax officials have reached a settlement. Hogan and…
- May 1, 2012Happy May Day. Whether you celebrate this first day of May as a spring festival, a workers' holiday or are…
- April 30, 2012Stephen King doesn't pull many punches in his tales of terror. So it's no surprise that he goes right to…
- April 30, 2012I'm a big fan of television, especially educational TV. No, not PBS, although I do watch Nova, Mystery and Downton…
- April 29, 2012Amazon, after fighting and/or bribing states to keep from collecting sales taxes, in one week has surrendered to two state…
- April 29, 2012It's Sunday. That means it's funny papers time. And since this is a tax blog, here's one comic strip view…
- April 28, 2012Just as the 99 Percent movement is springing back to life with protests against companies that finagle very low or…
- April 28, 2012A lot of us have tax filing remorse. No, that's not being upset that we filed. It's wondering whether we…
- April 27, 2012When the notice showed up in my email box, my first thought was, "Will miracles never cease?" It was about…
- April 27, 2012While the Minnesota Vikings and their fans are engrossed in the 2012 NFL draft, lawmakers in St. Paul have been…
- April 26, 2012The 99 percent contingent, or at least an offshoot of the protest group, is back. This time the anger is…
- April 26, 2012President Obama this week visited three college campuses, primarily to promote his proposal to keep the interest rate on new…
- April 25, 2012Nobody's perfect, especially when it comes to taxes. The Internal Revenue Service keeps track of the top mistakes made each…
- April 25, 2012Did the change in the rules that made it harder to buy over-the-counter medicine with money from tax-advantaged medical accounts…
- April 24, 2012The final tax season grades aren't in yet, but a preliminary evaluation of the Internal Revenue Service's 2012 operations gives…
- April 23, 2012You made it through tax filing season. Congratulations! Now take all the things you complained about while working on your…
- April 22, 2012This Earth Day 2012, the hubby and I hiked a portion of the Balcones Canyonlands Preserve near our home. It was…
- April 21, 2012With Tax Day's arrival last Tuesday, the posts were front loaded last week at my other tax blog. The eve…
- April 21, 2012Tax Freedom Day arrived on Tax Day this year. April 17 was, according to Tax Foundation computations, the first day…
- April 20, 2012My home state's governor officially exited the 2012 Republican presidential campaign months ago, but it's obvious he's still thinking about…
- April 20, 2012Before we procrastinators struggled with finishing our 2011 returns this week, Chris Hayes hosted a panel on his MSNBC program…
- April 19, 2012I love it when my profession, journalism, coincides with my passion, taxes. The latest occurrence is the 2012 Pulitzer Prize…
- April 19, 2012Everybody recovered from their Tax Day hangovers? Good! How about some post-filing fun? Check out the chart below from the…
- April 18, 2012High tax season 2012 is over (yay!), but people who pay the smallest tax bills know that tax tasks never…
- April 18, 2012Ah, politicians and their loose lips. We recently listened to Obama's open mike "second term" remarks to his Russian counterpart.…