October 23, 2024Deductions can help reduce your taxable income. And the annual inflation adjustments to these amounts, like these for 2025, can…
October 22, 2024Sometimes you can feel like you’re in over your head when it comes to all the annual tax changes. Here's…- October 21, 2024Global taxes can be a real puzzle. (Rubik's Globe photo by Alan Kotok via Flickr CC) Every presidential year, some…
October 20, 2024The IRS faces an annual Tax Gap. This is the amount of tax legally owed, but which the agency is…- October 19, 2024Photo by Kay Bell My life has worked out pretty well, especially financially. I’ve come a long way from when…
- October 18, 2024Water & Land Solutions A conservation easement is a way for landowners to retain ownership and use of their property,…
- October 17, 2024Tax season is done for most filers. We’ve made it through April’s main Tax Day, and this week’s extension…
October 17, 2024Tax season is done for most filers. We’ve made it through April’s main Tax Day, and this week’s extension filing…- October 16, 2024Missing a deadline can be frustrating. Missing a tax deadline also can be costly, thanks to penalty and interest charges.…
October 15, 2024This horrific hurricane season has had one bright light. People are helping people. To ensure your assistance goes to those…- October 14, 2024Updated, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024 Tuesday, Oct. 15, is Tax Day again, this time for most taxpayers who got an…
- October 13, 2024Photo by Ketut Subiyanto There’s good news for businesses that filed accurate Employee Retention Credit (ERC) claims. The Internal Revenue…
- October 12, 2024On Oct. 10, Social Security recipients got the annual word on how their benefits will change in the coming year.…
- October 11, 2024The deadly and destructive aftermath of Hurricanes Debby, Helene, and Milton, prompted the Internal Revenue Service to designate a new…
October 10, 2024Uncle Sam also collects payroll taxes from your checks to cover the Social Security and Medicare benefits most of us…- October 10, 2024The coming wage base bump also means more FICA taxes for higher earners. Running the numbers is important for everyone,…
- October 9, 2024If that sticky note retirement is your goal, then you need to save as much as possible, especially if you're…
- October 8, 2024UPDATE, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024: The Internal Revenue Service granted tax relief to taxpayers in Juneau, Alaska, following the early…
- October 7, 2024If you have a big heart like the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz classic movie, consider helping out…
- October 6, 2024The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (left) sits on the Lake Erie shore next to the Great Lakes Science…
- October 5, 2024Getting mail delivered to your home is convenient. But even individually locked boxes, like these in this community collection area,…
- October 4, 2024Update, Friday, Oct. 11, 2024: The Internal Revenue Service today announced disaster tax relief and a Feb. 3, 2025, deadline…
- October 3, 2024Updated, Jan. 10, 2025: In announcing the start of the 2025 tax filing season today, the Internal Revenue Service also…
- October 2, 2024National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/National Weather Service The people whose lives have been devastated by Hurricane Helene obviously are not…
- October 1, 2024Updated Oct. 3, 2024, to include tax relief in newly declared major disaster areas. Photo by Vlad Chețan October is…
- September 30, 2024Photo by Adeolu Eletu on Unsplash The main goal of the Republican tax reform bill in 2017 was to lower…
- September 29, 2024Americans have always been aspirational. We strive to be better, especially financially. And while we’d all like to be…
- September 28, 2024A television studio like this one in the CBS Broadcast Center will be the site of next week’s only vice…
- September 27, 2024Sometimes, shelters don't work out as hoped. That's also the case with tax shelters set up to take, rather than…
- September 26, 2024Even the Internal Revenue Service has acknowledged the Employee Retention Credit (ERC) claim process has been beleaguered by fraud and…
- September 25, 2024Photo by RDNE Stock project A home of one’s own has long been part of the traditional American Dream. Nowadays,…
September 25, 2024A home of one’s own has long been part of the traditional American Dream. Nowadays, though, some say it’s a…- September 25, 2024The Internal Revenue Service in 2024 offered some U.S. taxpayers a new, online, free way to complete their tax returns…
- September 24, 2024Regular readers already know this, but since the college and professional football seasons are underway, and we’re about to head…
- September 23, 2024If only online privacy was as easy as posting a sign. (Photo by Connor Danylenko) Do you look at your…
- September 22, 2024Will the federal government be open or closed on Oct. 1? We should get an idea this week as Congress…
- September 21, 2024Next year, we go into the final year of the Republican tax reform law's SALT cap. Since the Tax Cuts…
- September 20, 2024Photo by Francisco De Legarreta C. on Unsplash Owing a big tax bill is a terrible feeling. The only thing worse is…
- September 19, 2024Unsplash+ in collaboration with Getty Images Congressional proposals to exempt gratuities from income pop up periodically, usually in election years. It’s happening…
- September 18, 2024Photo by Mikael Blomkvist The third estimated tax payment deadline was Monday, Sept. 16, but today the Internal Revenue Service…
