- 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.…
- April 17, 2012Yes, there is such a thing. And while it's not quite 5 o'clock anywhere in the United States yet, just…
- April 17, 2012Happy Tax Day, this time for real. This filing season is shaping up like most. A whole lot of us…
- April 16, 2012Did you put off filing your tax return until the last minute because you knew you'd owe Uncle Sam? You,…
- April 15, 2012Happy Tax Day! Sorry. I didn't mean to give you a heart attack. But I'm pretty sure that by now…
- April 15, 2012Most taxpayers have multiple taxes to worry about this time of year. At the federal level, in addition to the…
- April 14, 2012The president and vice president released their 2011 tax returns and yes, the Commander in Chief's 20.5 percent tax rate…
- April 14, 2012If last year was the first one in which you worked for yourself, either as your full-time job or by…
- April 13, 2012You put off filing your taxes because you knew you were going to have to pay the IRS. At least…
- April 13, 2012If you got a refund from the Internal Revenue Service, you probably filed your 1040 many weeks or months ago.…
- April 12, 2012It's tax filing crunch time and I know you have enough to worry about now if you haven't yet completed…
- April 12, 2012If you still file a paper tax return by mailing it to the Internal Revenue Service, know where you're going…
- April 11, 2012Recent tax policy debate has focused on two proposals: Let the Bush tax cuts, or at least the top two…
- April 10, 2012President Obama is in Florida today, launching his full-fledged campaign for including the Buffett Rule in any tax reform. And…
- April 9, 2012With the individual tax return filing deadline next week, federal taxes are taking center stage in the presidential and Congressional…