- March 25, 2011Tax time evokes a lot of emotions. Anger. Frustration. Despair. Then there's fear. Being afraid of filing holds back a…
- March 24, 2011Good news for filers who've been in tax refund limbo because of their repayment of the 2008 faux first-time homebuyer…
- March 24, 2011Today is Harry Houdini's birthday. If the master escape artist had been able to free himself from the restraints of…
- March 23, 2011Some people say they want to work forever. Not me. I'm looking to retire as soon as possible. To that…
- March 23, 2011This has not been a good filing season for the Internal Revenue Service. First, Congress screwed around into December before…
- March 22, 2011Sen. Claire McCaskill admitted Monday that she owes four years of back taxes totaling nearly $300,000 on a private airplane.…
- March 21, 2011We've all gotten those dunning letters that include the statement, "If you've already sent in your payment, thank you and…
- March 20, 2011In January, tax professionals were searching in about equal amounts for business and individual tax terms. That changed in February.…
- March 20, 2011As the debate about the deficit continues, some lawmakers are again talking about raising the income tax rate on the…
- March 19, 2011A Texas pastor has been accused by his congregation of holding communion hostage in return for their tax money. Pastor…
- March 18, 2011A whistleblower who exposed a tax fraud scheme by Enron and Wall Street firms has been awarded a $1.1 million…
- March 17, 2011You knew I couldn't let St. Patrick's Day slip by without reminding you of the many green tax breaks out…
- March 17, 2011Happy St. Patrick's Day! On this day of celebrating all things Irish, NASA's Aqua satellite brings us this out-of-this-world view…
- March 16, 2011If you've looked in the upper right corned of the ol' blog, you've seen that Today's Tax Tip deals with…
- March 16, 2011Third Way, a left-to-center think tank in Washington, D.C., has long touted the benefits of a taxpayer receipt. Now with…
- March 15, 2011Everybody is looking for more tax money to cover ginormous budget gaps. At the federal level, it looks like the…
- March 14, 2011I am not a basketball fan, pro or college, so I just muddle through NCAA March Madness, flipping around to…
- March 14, 2011Experts on both taxes and American history were quick to note that my By the Numbers post on states tax…
- March 13, 2011Is it just a coincidence that the IRS issued an information sheet about rental income and expenses just as the…
- March 12, 2011Not to spoil the ending of this season's Celebrity Apprentice, but it looks like Richard Hatch won't be Donald Trump's…
- March 10, 2011The voters of Los Angeles have spoken and they've overwhelmingly said tax medical marijuana. If only it were that easy.…
- March 10, 2011When 2010 ended, did you leave some money unspent in your medical flexible spending account, usually referred to as an FSA?…
- March 9, 2011Want a lower property tax bill in Colorado? Get yourself a couple of sheep. Or grow a little hay. That's…
- March 8, 2011It's about to get weirder and crazier than usual here in Austin. The annual South by Southwest festival, popularly known…
- March 7, 2011Marijuana continues to be a burning issue for Californians. Voters across the state last November rejected Proposition 19, which would…
- March 5, 2011Ben Bernanke and his crew at the Federal Reserve Board, aka the Fed, swear that inflation is low. Such assertions…
- March 4, 2011You've got to give Wesley Snipes props for persistence. The action film star is serving his three-year federal prison sentence…
- March 4, 2011Did you file a return for the 2007 tax year? If not, then a portion of $1.3 billion in unclaimed…
- March 3, 2011Earlier this year, my mother moved nearer to me. The good news is that she's now just about an hour…
- March 2, 2011We're in the heart of tax-filing -- and tax-paying -- season. This is the time of year more than any…
- March 2, 2011Today is special here in my home state. On March 2, 1836, Texas became Texas. Delegates from the 17 Mexican…
- March 1, 2011That's it. There's no "but" or "fade away" tacked onto that headline. Most tax breaks already on the books simply…
- March 1, 2011Welcome to March. It's the month that brings us spring and gets us to the doorstep of our annual federal…
- February 28, 2011Charlie Sheen, star of the popular CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men, continues to speak out from what has…
- February 26, 2011Sometimes when folks are desperately seeking tax deductions, they take allowable write-offs a little too far. Case in point, the…
- February 25, 2011Sin taxes have always been a popular way to raise money. They tend to adversely affect a relatively small group,…
- February 24, 2011News coverage of late is full of stories of state lawmakers confronting taxpayers over ways to close huge budget deficits.…
- February 23, 2011As I mentioned earlier this week, tax filing season is like a big scavenger hunt for tax deductions. Most of…
- February 22, 2011Just how much do we love our cell phones? So much so that, in most places across the United State,…
- February 21, 2011I file our tax returns (that's my working method pictured below, and yes, the television remote is critical to the…