- December 9, 2011Even in these tight money times, some states and cities have offered professional sports teams sweetheart deals. And those deals…
- December 9, 2011The IRS has cleared one of the biggest hurdles to improving annual tax return processing: technology. That means the agency's…
- December 8, 2011The IRS wants to deal with taxpayers in the here and now. You say that's what you thought was happening.…
- December 7, 2011It's time to play the unofficial Congressional Christmas song: < Yep, if Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has his way,…
- December 6, 2011It's the season of good will, peace, joy and happiness. Then the creeps show up. Burglars broke into a friend's…
- December 5, 2011I guess I'm going to have to start DVRing Saturday Night Live so I can fast forward to the few…
- December 4, 2011It's holiday gift time and that could include goodies from your boss. Of course, any time you get something from an…
- December 3, 2011The hubby is working away in the living room, decorating our Christmas tree. Do we know how to spend a…
- December 3, 2011Winter's just arriving in Austin, so of course I'm thinking spring and baseball. Actually, the baseball musings started last month…
- December 2, 2011The watchwords in real estate are location, location, location. The personal financial world has its own triplicate mantra: details, details,…
- December 2, 2011OK, folks, just how much blogging blow-by-blow on the payroll tax cut extension/expansion fight do you want? By now you…
- December 2, 2011You've been able to make a few bucks recently on your hobby. That will really help with the holiday gift…
- December 1, 2011This time of year everyone is thinking of giving and getting. For tax-savvy folks, the goal is to be generous…
- December 1, 2011We all knew that members of Congress too often act like kids. Now the payroll tax cut issue has taken…
- 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:…