- November 2, 2011How's school going? Classes are probably a lot easier when you don't have to worry so much about paying for…
- November 2, 2011We're barely into the Super Committee Countdown and here comes word that the panel might vote to give itself more…
- November 1, 2011I know I ask this every year, but I've never gotten a satisfactory answer so I'm trying again: How the…
- November 1, 2011November has arrived, bringing with it just 23 days (counting today) for the specially created Congressional super committee to come…
- November 1, 2011As easy as it might be, I will not comment on Kim Kardashian's sham marriage or her television "reality" show…
- October 31, 2011Happy Halloween! My suburban community tonight will resemble many across America tonight: costumed kids, some a little older than they…
- October 30, 2011What do home foreclosures and credit card transactions have in common? In the wonderful world of Congress and the Internal…
- October 29, 2011UDPATED Sunday, Aug. 16, 2020 You just got the biggest scare of your life and it has nothing to do…
- October 28, 2011Somebody better head over to the House GOP leadership offices, Republican National Committee and Fox News with handfuls of Prozac,…
- October 28, 2011After four years without a U.S. Formula 1 race, there soon will be two. Maybe. In May 2010, the FIA…
- October 27, 2011Actor Alec Baldwin and Dean Skelos, majority leader of the New York Senate, went at it yesterday over proposals to…
- October 26, 2011With all the attention on Occupy Wall Street tax protests, which Americans make up the richest 1 percent and growing…
- October 25, 2011You can't blame the folks in charge of producing Jack Daniel's for having a few stiff shots of their signature…
- October 25, 2011Here in the United States we keep hearing about how our corporate tax system makes it hard for businesses to…
- October 24, 2011Yes, "how much do you make?" is a rude question. See, mom, I did pay some attention when you tried…
- October 24, 2011California's statewide tax amnesty for owners of offshore accounts closes Oct. 31. That Halloween date also is the deadline for…
- October 23, 2011In June, Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Douglas Shulman went before a Senate committee and told lawmakers that their plans to…
- October 22, 2011Politicians at all levels of government are working, or at least making campaign promises, to give taxpayers what they think…
- October 22, 2011Happy 25th anniversary historic Tax Reform Act of 1986. I was working on Capitol Hill in 1986, for a Congressman…
- October 21, 2011This coming holiday shopping season could be the last one in which online shoppers avoid their states' sales taxes. Tax…
- October 21, 2011When Obama this morning signed the recently passed trade bills with South Korea, Colombia and Panama, not only did laws…
- October 20, 2011Although they're around 2,500 miles and vastly different mindsets apart, New York and California have a lot in common. Both…
- October 20, 2011For most of us, our home is our biggest investment. It also provides a lot of tax breaks. For now.…
- October 19, 2011I love it when a blog reader's question coincides with a story I'm working on so that research for one…
- October 19, 2011Good news for Social Security recipients. You'll finally get a cost of living increase next year. The Social Security Administration…
- October 18, 2011The 99 percenters gathering at Occupy Wall Street protests and Herman Cain's 9-9-9 tax reform plan have us once again…
- October 18, 2011Businessman Herman Cain, who has surged to the front of the Republican presidential nomination race in large part because of…
- October 17, 2011Most U.S. taxpayers claim the standard deduction. The figure holds around 70 percent who simply fill in the set amount…
- October 17, 2011This is it my fellow tax procrastinators. That extension to file you got back in the spring ends today, Monday,…
- October 16, 2011While the first-time homebuyer credit helped some folks get into a home, it has been an unmitigated disaster for the…
- October 16, 2011Taxes are confusing, intimidating and generally infuriating. That's why we all try to be done with them as quickly as…
- October 15, 2011Maximizing itemized deductions can really cut a tax bill. Sometimes, though, the requirements to claim some deductions make getting the…
- October 14, 2011Most taxpayers every year claim the standard deduction. But every tax-filing season, a lot of attention is paid to itemized…
- October 14, 2011Apparently Americans prefer natural tanning methods to tanning beds. Or maybe the Internal Revenue Service is not doing as much…
- October 13, 2011The local NPR station here in Austin, KUT FM, just finished its fall fund raising effort. But being a public…
- October 13, 2011First Warren Buffett wrote a newspaper piece saying he and his fellow millionaires don't pay enough income taxes. Then President…
- October 12, 2011When it comes to taxes, someone is always trying to take your money and I'm not talking about the IRS.…
- October 12, 2011Any time you get in a hurry to finish your tax return, be it in April or as the October…
- October 12, 2011A misleading and fear-mongering anti-tax chain email aimed at homeonwers is back. It first appeared in 2010 during the health care…
- October 11, 2011The ultimate deadline for filing a 2010 tax return is less than a week away. It's also the last chance…