- August 17, 2008Two attorneys have come up with what is probably the first tax comic book. Get Smart (About Special Manufacturing Deductions)…
- August 16, 2008Barack Obama has tweaked his tax plan in connection with expanded Social Security payroll tax collection and higher capital gains…
- August 15, 2008Ballot initiatives are a popular way to let state politicians off the hook get the public involved in the legislative…
- August 14, 2008The latest news in the global offshore account investigation doesn't look too good for UBS. At least three years ago,…
- August 13, 2008Attention Massachusetts, Connecticut and Texas shoppers! Your state sales tax holiday is this weekend. Texas kicks off this final round…
- August 12, 2008So what are NFL suits afraid of? Being laughed at for making too little money. I'm not laughing. Are you?…
- August 10, 2008A new study by the Tax Foundation indicates that overall, Americans' state tax burden has dropped ever so slightly. In…
- August 9, 2008Yeah, I'm tired of Wesley Snipes, too, but at least this time the news about his tax fraud conviction is…
- August 9, 2008In my post yesterday, one of the links went to another post about increased audits. That item included a table…
- August 8, 2008It's no accident that this round of the Summer Olympics kicked off in Beijing at 8:08 p.m. local time today,…
- August 7, 2008Back when I worked on Capitol Hill, I loved election years. No, it wasn't any fun if your employer was…
- August 6, 2008First, to those of you who clicked here expecting something else -- a calendar, pehaps? -- sorry. Secondly, I can't…
- August 6, 2008Most attention these days is paid to the national economy. But according to the latest numbers from the Rockefeller Institute…
- 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.…