- May 31, 2023Getting a notice from the Internal Revenue Service is rarely welcome. But such correspondence could be a tax and financial…
- May 30, 2023Photo by Eric Prouzet on Unsplash In my neighborhood, the windows of businesses large and small are plastered with "Help…
May 29, 2023Graduate_with_grandmother_pexels-rodnae-productions-7713543 Grandparents attending graduation ceremonies are a wonderful family tradition. Now a coming tax law change will create another meeting…- May 28, 2023Members of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment place flags at Arlington National Cemetery in advance of Memorial Day. Memorial Day…
- May 27, 2023Photo by Anastasiia Chepinska on Unsplash Among the many lessons we've learned, or not, from the COVID-19 pandemic is that…
- May 26, 2023Remember the 94-year-old Minnesota woman whose home was seized by country tax collectors after she stopped paying her property tax…
- May 25, 2023Photo by Durmuş Kavcıoğlu on Unsplash Some folks are already en route to their long Memorial Day weekend destination. Millions will be…
- May 24, 2023Photo by Liza Summer After a couple of years of COVID-19 pandemic disruptions, the 2023 tax filing season was, for…
- May 23, 2023The upcoming Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start of summer. It's also the start of a couple of sales…
- May 22, 2023Two enterprising women packing up items they sold for shipping. (Photo by Kampus Production) A major contributor to the Tax…
- May 21, 2023Photo by Tima Miroshnichenko A Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) report on the early results of the 2023…
- May 20, 2023UPDATE, Sept. 5, 2025: Has your state joined Direct File? Check out this special Direct File 2025 Participating States page.…
- May 19, 2023Reviewed and updated Aug. 22, 2023 Owners of electric vehicles in Texas, like this one charging in a suburban Austin…
- May 18, 2023It's going to take more charging stations, and in more rural areas, to get more U.S. drivers to even consider…
- May 17, 2023Photo by Juan Ramos on Unsplash May is graduation month. It's also graduate gift giving time. Money is always tight…
- May 16, 2023Inflation has increased the cost of everything, including health care. That's why many people, even before the recent jump in…
- May 15, 2023Photo by Gustavo Fring Millions of Americans are worrying about the damage to their retirement accounts if the United States…
- May 14, 2023Spring is the traditional time to clean out all the junk you've accumulated. Our neighborhood has a community yard sale…
- May 13, 2023The outlook remains a bit cloudy for reaching an agreement to prevent the United States from defaulting on its debt.…
- May 12, 2023Long-time ol' blog readers know I regularly nag remind them to make sure their payroll withholding is correct. The tax…
- May 11, 2023U.S. crypto fans are not happy with the White House proposal to institute a 30 percent crypto mining tax. They…
- May 10, 2023A view from the left field upper deck of the Milwaukee Brewers' ballpark, back when what is now American Family…
- May 9, 2023In February 2022, the Internal Revenue Service announced that it was suspending several automatic tax notices. The move was prompted…
- May 8, 2023Photo by Tim Mossholder Once this year's April tax filing deadline passed, most Americans were done with their annual Internal…
- May 7, 2023Mike Mozart via Flickr CC In April 2019, the online investigative news site Pro Publica revealed that some major tax…
- May 6, 2023Meanwhile, even crypto-mining-friendly Texas is exploring ways to limit such operations' heavy use of the Lone Star State's power grid.…
- May 5, 2023Coastal flooding in a Florida community. (Photo by Barry Bahler via Wikipedia Commons) They may be more than 3,100 miles…
- May 4, 2023The IRS gives the green light to improvements that should help small businesses in their interactions with the tax agency.…
- May 3, 2023Young woman getting ready to record an online video. (Photo by George Milton) Being an influencer apparently isn't all it's…
- May 2, 2023Some of the world's largest companies are family owned. Yes, we're looking at you, Walmart. But the real backbone of…
- May 1, 2023Homemade Gifts Made Easy May. A short word with many meanings. It's the name of the fifth month of the…
- April 30, 2023Image courtesy @SBAgov Welcome to National Small Businesses Week (NSBW). This year is the 60th anniversary of the weeklong celebration…
- April 29, 2023A Cole, Oklahoma, home destroyed by the EF3 tornado that went through McClain County on April 19, 2023. The National…
- April 28, 2023Unscrupulous tax return preparers once again made the Internal Revenue Service's annual Dirty Dozen scam list. That's not a surprise.…
- April 27, 2023Updated, Thursday, May 25, 2023 (more in UPDATE paragraph below) The interior of the U.S. Supreme Court (Photo by Phil…
- April 26, 2023Whatever your reason for moving, be it a temporary disaster displacement or settling into your forever dream home, you need…
- April 25, 2023Photo by Sharon Waldron on Unsplash Every year after Tax Day, I get emails from my financial institutions and local…
- April 24, 2023Photo by Alesia Kozik The devil is in the details, especially when it comes to taxes. That's why the Internal…
- April 23, 2023Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden share a lighter moment. Last week, they also shared their 2022 federal…
- April 22, 2023Image by www.epictop10.com via Flickr CC Now that Tax Day is over for many of us, it's time to make…
