- October 7, 2009You heard right. The Congressional Budget Office says that even with an $829 billion price tag, the Senate Finance Committee…
- October 7, 2009Bruce Bartlett, whom I cited last month in my post Fiscal responsibility requires higher taxes, is getting more ink. In…
- October 6, 2009The IRS has more than 50,000 content pages at www.IRS.gov but it's not stopping there."We're looking at building a new…
- October 6, 2009The first Monday in October kicked off a new U.S. Supreme Court term. While everyone is anxiously awaiting the first…
- October 4, 2009You know the global economy is bad when an iconic tax haven is contemplating, for the first time, collecting taxes.…
- October 3, 2009Yes, millions of folks still haven't filed their 2008 returns (that final deadline is Oct. 15; more on that soon),…
- October 2, 2009What a fun idea! ESPN should televise a National Tax Bee, a la the annual National Spelling Bee broadcast. That's…
- October 2, 2009Unless you're fighting off the swine flu, you're probably sick of medical talk. Even then, you likely just want a…
- October 1, 2009Perhaps South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, the famous fake hiker of the Appalachian Trail, can use this post's headline as…
- September 30, 2009Let's do a little conventional political tax math. Business organizations generally support issues championed by Republicans. Republicans generally oppose the…
- September 29, 2009The Senate Finance Committee just decided that there would not be a public option in its health care reform plan.The…
- September 28, 2009That headline got your attention, didn't it? It's from Bruce Bartlett's latest column in Forbes. The article's subhead drives home…
- September 27, 2009In Share the Moment and Spread the Wealth, the Ping column in today's New York Times, Brad Stone looks at…
- September 27, 2009What are you doing on Oct. 15? If you got an extension to file your taxes, you might be frantically…
- September 26, 2009I've spent most of my professional life in the media, but I still am amazed at what prompts news outlets…
- September 26, 2009No, the Obamas aren't looking for a tax professional to help them file their first 1040 as residents of 1600…
- September 25, 2009OK, so I wrote a blog piece a few weeks ago saying that Rep. Charles Rangel should surrender his Ways…
- September 25, 2009All the recent focus on ACORN and its now-severed ties with the IRS also has produced more interest in the…
- September 24, 2009In the wake of embarrassing (and in one case, allegedly illegal) videotapes of ACORN employees offering bad tax (and other)…
- September 23, 2009Finally! The end to our tackiest national tax nightmare is near."Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis apparently has reached a…
- September 23, 2009OK, I'm not going to post every time there's a proposed change to health care reform legislation. I could spend…
- September 23, 2009Yesterday in my post about Taxing Pennsylvania's arts and culture, I only semi-facetiously commented that I'd pay to see rowdy, and…
- September 22, 2009Museums tend to be nonprofits. As such, they don't distribute any surplus funds to owners or shareholders, but rather use…
- September 22, 2009The Senate's tax committee will begin dissecting the chairman's health care reform proposal at 9 a.m today. Expect the bill…
- September 21, 2009I predicted back in August that Death and taxes will continue.That topic, the impending (and improbable) repeal of the estate…
- September 21, 2009The IRS means it this time. Really.The tax man is giving owners of offshore accounts, suspected of being used to…
- September 20, 2009Being a good Texan, I'm partial to roundups. Teague, Texas, Post Office Mural "Cattle Roundup" by Thomas Stell, Jr., 1940; TE…
- September 19, 2009How are your parents doing? Not just physically and emotionally, but financially?That's a question more Baby Boomers are asking every…
- September 19, 2009While Chrysler was in bailout talks with Uncle Sam, one of its top executives was dealing with his own financial…
- September 18, 2009Since the bursting housing bubble was the event that sent the U.S. economy into the tank, it's no surprise that…
- September 17, 2009Ever wonder why Americans tend to be overweight? Part of the reason is that between 1977 and 2002, the number…
- September 17, 2009NOTE: This post has been updated (2:45 p.m. CDT) to reflect recent legislative actions with regard to ACORN.In the wake…
- September 16, 2009UPDATE, Tuesday, Sept. 22: The Senate Finance Committee is marking up the Chairman's bill (discussed below) today. Some possible major…
- September 15, 2009What happens when you run out of other people's money? If you're facing federal fraud charges, you have to resort…
- September 15, 2009Today is the debut of a new feature here on the ol' blog: Tax Twitter Tuesday. Or, as my tax…
- September 15, 2009Just a quick reminder. Today, Sept. 15, is the deadline for your third 2009 estimated tax payment. If you're mailing your 1040-ES…
- September 14, 2009If you're an insomniac like me, you've seen the commercials purporting to help you pay an IRS debt for substantially…
- September 13, 2009The economy is starting to recover, but jobs are doing more than lagging. They are disappearing completely. And that poses…
- September 13, 2009The IRS is continuing to move into social media.A couple of weeks ago, I blogged about the agency's YouTube video…
September 12, 2009For most movie fans, The Shawshank Redemption is a prison break movie. But for film loving tax geeks, it has…
