- August 5, 2008As a member of the Taxpayer Advocacy Panel, I'm pleased to report that we have officially released our 2007 annual…
- August 4, 2008Here's another non-housing related measure from the recently enacted Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2008. Credit and debit card processors now…
- August 3, 2008It's time for my regular detour into auto racing. This month, my Crazy Woman Driver column explains why Rick Hendrick…
- August 3, 2008Yeah, you're right. That wasn't my original headline. I had planned to post these midyear tax planning moves about a…
- August 2, 2008Last week, Irving, Texas-based Exxon Mobil, the world's largest oil company, announced a record quarterly earnings of $11.7 billion. Earlier,…
- August 1, 2008It sounded like a good idea. Pay $20,000 to get out of a $300,000 tax bill. Unfortunately, it wasn't an…
- August 1, 2008Vacation time is winding down, and although many of us took staycations this year, a fair amount of folks managed…
- July 31, 2008Not to run this in the ground, but I'm getting lots of questions about the tax holiday in Massachusetts this…
- July 31, 2008By now, I'm sure you know that Sen. Ted Stevens has been indicted. But what's not in the formal charges,…
- July 30, 2008The American Housing Rescue and Foreclosure Prevention Act became the latest law of the land this morning when, in a…
- July 30, 2008Attention shoppers! Back-to-school sales tax holidays are about to start. This year, 14 states and the District of Columbia are…
- July 28, 2008This morning, Dubya will arrive at the Oval Office to find the American Housing Rescue and Foreclosure Prevention Act on…
- July 27, 2008Apparently, that guy in Illinois who turned his home into a church, thereby avoiding an $80,000 tax bill, is not…
- July 27, 2008Whoa! If the hubby pulled the trick that MP Dunleavy's did, there would be hell to pay in our house.…
- July 26, 2008The bank failure express continues to roll along, with two more banks being taken over by federal regulators. First National…
- July 26, 2008Joe Francis, the man behind the [insert your own adjective here] Girls Gone Wild videos, pleaded not guilty to felony…
- July 25, 2008By early July, the IRS had received more than 145 million tax returns. At that same point last year, 131…
- July 24, 2008Sure, it was the anti-tax efforts of the Boston Tea Party participants who got the American Revolution really rolling, but…
- July 23, 2008Now that Dubya has backed off from his threatened veto of housing legislation, look for a bill to be on…
- July 23, 2008The IRS isn't talking, but the Rev. Al Sharpton's people are. And the word from the flamboyant New Yorker is…
- July 22, 2008The 2008 Atlantic hurricane season is finally getting into gear. As I type, weather watchers say Tropical Storm Dolly is…
- July 22, 2008Interesting story in today's New York Times on how women have finally reached a bit of parity with men in…
- July 20, 2008All you long-time tax geeks, remember the bad old IRS days? Back when the tax collector went after us with…
- July 19, 2008Sales tax holidays (upcoming dates are blogged about here) have managed to hold on despite tough times for state treasuries,…
- July 19, 2008In my recent look at FDIC insurance guidelines, I closed that post by lamenting the disappearance of friendly local bankers,…
- July 18, 2008UPDATE, July 24, 2008 -- Massachusetts has finally joined the 2008 tax holiday parade. More on the Bay State's upcoming…
- July 17, 2008By converting his $3 million home to a church, an Illinois man has saved himself around $80,000 in property taxes.…
- July 17, 2008Congressional interest in the use of foreign accounts to avoid U.S. taxes has moved beyond the traditional tax-writing committees. The…
- July 16, 2008A new study says that you probably will. And that data was collected before the stock market went on its…
- July 16, 2008The bulk of the rebate checks have been delivered. Can't you just feel the economic stimulation. (I hope that last…
- July 15, 2008Joe Sixpack Budweiser drinkers might be crying in their beers over the sale of the iconic American brewer to InBev…
- July 14, 2008This week, Vermont residents can escape paying sales tax on qualified Energy Star appliances costing $2,000 or less. The energy-efficient…
- July 14, 2008On July 14, 1789, the French stormed the Bastille, the prison that was the symbol of the absolute power of…
- July 13, 2008The IndyMac Bank failure got me thinking about something most of us take for granted: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, usually…
- July 13, 2008Ah, summer! It's heaven for film fans. Every weekend, a blockbuster, generally with a comic book hero, premieres on movie…
- July 12, 2008I'm a bit late blogging today because I spent the last few hours adding to our house plant collection. The…
- July 11, 2008Did you get your new iPhone today? Are you already irritated by the accompanying hassles? You're not alone. News outlets…
- July 10, 2008Fellow tax blogger taxgirl recently got an interesting, and alarmed, e-mail about a proposed tax on windfall retirement earnings. Don't…
- July 10, 2008They are scammers using tax hooks to snare your personal and financial data. And actually, they never left. But they…
- July 9, 2008A lot of people, not just her estranged grandchildren, rolled their eyes at the late Leona Helmsley's bequests. Not only…