- October 15, 2009Welcome to Blog Action Day 2009, where thousands of bloggers worldwide are focusing on climate change issues. What better way…
- October 14, 2009Around 57 million seniors, veterans and individuals receiving federal disability payments could each get a $250 check from Uncle Sam…
- October 14, 2009Having a baby, so I'm told, is a major challenge. The mothering concerns of one woman were intensified when, because…
- October 14, 2009After all the drama and political posturing, the health care reform bill approved yesterday by the Senate Finance Committee looks…
- October 13, 2009Yeah, you read that headline right. It's deadlines, plural.And yeah, I meant to post this reminder a bit sooner. But,…
- October 11, 2009What better way to wrap up a weekend than with a handy collection of financial tips, courtesy Joe Taxpayer.As always,…
- October 11, 2009The stock market has been creeping upwards, which is great news for folks like me, who are hoping one day…
- October 10, 2009Update, March 29, 2018: When you move for a job, the costs of getting you and your family to your…
- October 9, 2009Every time a prominent American gets a Nobel Prize, tax geeks scurry to examine the tax implications of the monetary…
- October 9, 2009The House yesterday unanimously approved extending the first-time home buyer tax credit for some members of the military. H.R. 3590,…
- 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…