- November 15, 2007When did Bill Murray get elected to Congress? Sorry. The laid-back comic isn't in D.C. It just seems that way,…
- November 14, 2007Wait. Don't go! You're at the right URL. Two years ago today, I posted my first Don't Mess With Taxes…
- November 14, 2007Lots of people say they hate their job. What they usually mean is that they hate the work they do,…
- November 13, 2007Get ready, taxpayers. An IRS official says by summer 2008 we might be able to access our own personal tax…
- November 12, 2007No, that's not a thinly disguised epithet for an annoying neighbor. It's a description of our almost neighbor. It's a…
- November 11, 2007Today, Nov. 11, is Veterans Day, the day we honor our military veterans. For a few years, Veterans Day was…
- November 10, 2007I haven't updated the ol' tax cheat watch list for a while, but this one definitely deserves mention. Two employees…
- November 9, 2007For the first time ever, the national average of regular gasoline hit $3-plus a gallon in November. And that's before…
- November 8, 2007Ho-hum. Same old, same old. Another tax-filing season, another IRS statistical record falls. Nearly 80 million of us filed out…
- November 7, 2007Well, a few of them have. As usual on a non-presidential election day, turnout was tiny here in Texas. I…
- November 6, 2007The potential tax bills of millions of investors are now in the hands of the United States' nine top jurists.…
- November 5, 2007Since I didn't put one of my own posts in today's Carnival of Taxes: Return to Tax Standard Time, consider…
- November 4, 2007A friend -- to protect her privacy I'll refer to her as J -- is recovering from a severe spinal…
- November 4, 2007Oh lord, won't you buy mea Mercedes Benz?My friends all drive Porsches.I must make amends. If you've already got a…
- November 3, 2007Tragedies bring out the worst in some folks. There's the looting after natural disasters. And there's the slightly more subtle…
- November 2, 2007The U.S. was spared the worst of Hurricane Noel, but the system did inflict a lot of damage on East…
- November 1, 2007Around 23 million taxpayers are hoping that Congress will indeed get some sort of alternative minimum tax relief passed in…
- November 1, 2007I'm still on a sugar high from munching on last night's excess candy -- honest, we don't overbuy on purpose!…
- October 31, 2007It's not quite as sweet as the candy you'll be handing out to young ghouls tonight, but lawmakers on Capitol…
- October 30, 2007The Lone Star State issues too many reports. That's the word, ahem, words, from a new 668-page report. The Texas…
- October 29, 2007Welcome, a tad belatedly (hey! I've been busy; and did I mention that vacation I just took?), to TaxVox. The…
- October 29, 2007Wow! A person takes a few days off and goes to a remote part of Texas where there's no radio,…
- October 29, 2007Congratulations to the Red Sox. And congrats, too, to folks who bought furniture this spring at Jordan's Furniture. According to…
- October 28, 2007A Pennsylvania woman is suing Kmart over a 12-pack of Angel Soft toilet tissue that cost her $3.99. The shelf…
- October 27, 2007Back in June, in this blog entry I bemoaned the dearth of information on just where the many presidential candidates…
- October 26, 2007The hubby and I are tooling around the wilds of West Texas, so the auto shown below probably wouldn't be…
- October 25, 2007Tax scammers are starting to crawl out of the woodwork on a distressingly regular schedule. Back in September, we had…
- October 24, 2007Open enrollment season is upon us. The hubby got his information packet last week and has until mid-November to decide…
- October 23, 2007Complaints about property taxes are nothing new. I've whined myself about our annual bill, although I must admit that this…
- October 23, 2007As you read this, the hubby and I are retracing, at least partially, the West Texas trail that my cousin…
- October 22, 2007The year began with high hopes of substantive tax reform. Now, with just over two months left in 2007, reality…
- October 21, 2007HealthSouth Corp., the Alabama-based hospital chain, last week pocketed a $440 million federal tax refund. The money back was in…
- October 21, 2007Is there something new going on with the federal privacy notice law? Back in 1999, the privacy provisions of the…
- October 20, 2007Self-directed individual retirement accounts are growing, reports the New York Times, as many middle-aged investors are moving their money from…
- October 20, 2007I've been tagged by The World of Wealth to share seven random things about me, myself and I that y'all…
- October 19, 2007Back in early September, the IRS issued a revenue procedure reminding folks that Uncle Sam gets to put his paws…
- October 18, 2007Ben Bernanke and crew have been concerned about inflation, but apparently the Fed can chill a bit. Today, a couple…
- October 18, 2007I am going to quit volunteering to work KUT's fundraisers. The last two times I've signed up to answer the…
- October 17, 2007Charles Grassley might be getting some calls from his Republican colleagues about his latest position on the alternative minimum tax.…
- October 17, 2007The headline below jumped out at me when I flipped to the Business section of today's New York Times. Ya…