- December 1, 2011Welcome to December! Are you ready for the holidays? Me neither. How about taxes? That's OK. I don't blame you for…
- November 30, 2011This is always my favorite part of the annual Year-end Money Moves series: the look at moves to make by…
- November 30, 2011Forget Santa Claus. This year more than 99,123 taxpayers want a visit from Santa IRS. This federal gift giver has…
- November 29, 2011It's been a challenging year for investors. In today's second installment of the 2011 edition of Year-end Money Moves, we…
- November 29, 2011The great 2012 Election Year War continues this week with an upcoming new battle. On the heels of the recently…
- November 28, 2011I know, I know. I've been fixating on year-end tax moves of late. But this is, after all, a tax…
- November 28, 2011Got your fingers flexed? Shopping sites bookmarked? Credit card ready? Go! It's Cyber Monday. In 2010, money spent on the…
- November 27, 2011State leaders are among those worrying about the effect of automatic budget cuts that are scheduled to kick in following…
- November 26, 2011One of the few things that rivals the Internal Revenue Service when it comes to making people angry is the…
- November 25, 2011Had your fill of turkey? Enough already with family bonding? Take a break and check out some tax moves you…
- November 25, 2011If you were up in the wee morning hours to nab some ever earlier Black Friday bargains, Oren Etzioni has…
- November 24, 2011Our house smells wonderful. The hubby's pumpkin pie is baking. I get the oven next to cook the turkey and…
- November 23, 2011Americans are spreading the blame around for the super committee's failure to reach a deficit reduction solution, according to a…
- November 23, 2011Are you heading to the airport this Thanksgiving holiday? If you're like many passengers, you've probably crammed your travel needs…
- November 22, 2011Wow! The failure of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction did accomplish one amazing thing. It got New Gingrich,…
- November 22, 2011I spoke last night with the NBC affiliate in West Palm Beach about the super committee's inability to complete its…
- November 21, 2011Finger-pointing, and not always the index digit, is standard operating procedure in Washington, D.C. And the blame game is in…
- November 20, 2011What's more popular than the U.S. Congress? Just about everything. A New York Times/CBS News poll conducted in October found…
- November 20, 2011It seems that the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction doesn't want to wait to make Thanksgiving plans. The super…
- November 19, 2011Someone alert Chaz Bono's accountant. Sonny and Cher's son might want to file an amended tax return since the IRS…
- November 19, 2011The Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction is still struggling to meet its Nov. 23 deadline, but a lot of…
- November 18, 2011Democrats who control the New Jersey legislature are vowing to revive the state's millionaire's tax. The state's Republican governor releases…
- November 18, 2011Stop me if you've heard this before. Popular personal itemized deductions, including the mortgage interest tax break and write offs…
- November 17, 2011In 2008, Congress passed a farm bill that is the framework for most federal farm and food policies through fiscal…
- November 16, 2011The end of the tax year is coming up and if your withholding amount is off, you should submit a…
- November 16, 2011Around two dozen millionaires will be in Washington, D.C., today with a special message for the deficit reduction super committee:…
- November 15, 2011First it was Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke who was the prime target of Republican presidential candidates. Now one of the…
- November 15, 2011The rich are different from you and me except when it comes to tax breaks. They claim as many deductions…
- November 14, 2011Harry Truman is famous for, among other things, the sign on his desk proclaiming that "The Buck Stops Here." Buck…
- November 14, 2011Everyone agrees that the lack of jobs is a major problem for the U.S. economy. And most folks agree that…
- November 13, 2011You knew this was going to happen. People are looking for ways around severe spending cuts as the super committee…
- November 13, 2011When the IRS ended its controversial private tax debt collection program in 2009, Commissioner Douglas Shulman echoed the belief of…
- November 12, 2011Two Republican Senators told attendees at the Reuters Washington Summit last week that nearly half of the Senate is pushing…
- November 12, 2011I love what I do for a living. But I'd love it even more if I could write just because…
- November 11, 2011States sales tax collectors, get ready. A bipartisan group of Senators this week introduced legislation they say would level the…
- November 11, 2011The deficit reduction back-and-forth between Democrats and Republicans on the super committee continues. This Veterans Day week, Democrats suggested that…
- November 11, 2011The Senate yesterday unanimously approved a measure that offers businesses a variety of tax credits for hiring unemployed veterans. "This…
- November 10, 2011Although America's national parks account for less than 1/13th of one percent of the federal budget, the open spaces that…
- November 10, 2011I got our tax refund this week. I say "I" and "our" because the hubby and I live in a…
- November 9, 2011While members of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction hit a rough patch on Wednesday -- Republicans say Democrats…