- December 14, 2022December 1998 was hectic. The hubby was in California, getting onboarded for his new job, which actually would be in…
- December 13, 2022Photo by cottonbro studio The season of giving goes beyond presents for family and friends or donations to charities. December…
- December 12, 2022Nothing ever disappears on the internet. Even, or especially, tax related posts. Take the bad legal take on taxes that…
- December 11, 2022Photo by cottonbro studio Italian retailers prefer cash transactions. That helps explain why the country ranks near the bottom in…
- December 10, 2022Everyone who helps fellow taxpayers, regardless of language, makes a real-life difference. So here's also a look at some of…
- December 9, 2022Photo by Pixabay The Internal Revenue Service is slowly but slowly becoming more electronic. The pace should pick up once…
- December 8, 2022Among the things Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen discussed with late-night television host Stephen Colbert during her Nov. 30 appearance on…
- December 7, 2022The sports arena in Miami bore the FTX name until the cryptocurrency exchange filed for bankruptcy. (Photo by 350z33 via…
- December 6, 2022Vegas, baby! Nevada's Sin City is still the place to wager on sporting events. More states, however, are taking sports…
- December 5, 2022Small businesses and the companies that handle their electronic transactions are not the only ones upset at a new law…
- December 4, 2022Some taxpayers might not be this happy in 2023 with their federal tax refund. (Image via Giphy) Many folks are…
- December 3, 2022Many companies are sending workers home from their cubicles permanently. Last week's U.S. jobs numbers were surprisingly good. But another…
- December 2, 2022Photo by Eric Prouzet on Unsplash The U.S. jobs report today was way better than expected. Employers added 263,000 jobs.…
- December 1, 2022Photo by Guneet Jassal on Unsplash It's December! Are you ready for all the decorating and shopping and cooking and…
- November 30, 2022Women are making some advances in workplaces, but still face challenges when it comes to saving for a secure retirement.…
- November 29, 2022Not all foreign tax havens are tropical islands, but the idyllic getaways do conjure images of tax crooks enjoying isolated…
- November 28, 2022Updated Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023 The Tuesday after Thanksgiving has become a popular donation day. The charitable boosting effort, dubbed…
- November 27, 2022Reviewed and updated Nov. 23, 2023 Photo by Chris Henry on Unsplash You're heading home from your Thanksgiving get-together, loaded…
- November 26, 2022Reviewed and updated Nov. 23, 2023 Photo by Mikkel Bergmann on Unsplash We're into the Thanksgiving weekend and still noshing…
- November 25, 2022Reviewed and updated Nov. 23, 2023 Tom and Tillie Turkey take care of their youngsters, like these three young Bourbon…
November 24, 2022Tax turkeys can be costly. The ol' blog's Thanksgiving tradition of Tax Turkeys to Avoid looks at fowl tax fouls.…- November 23, 2022Reviewed and updated Nov. 23, 2023 What better topic for Thanksgiving than tax turkeys and how to avoid them. Our…
- November 22, 2022Technology is great, except when it isn't. And technology can be potentially dangerous, especially when taxes are involved. We all…
- November 21, 2022Holiday season is here. So are the accompanying scams. True, con artists operate year-round. But they really ramp up their…
- November 20, 2022Is your retirement plan on target? Maybe not, thanks (no thanks!) in part to the COVID pandemic and inflation. People…
- November 19, 2022My polling place only had Spanish "¡Yo Voté! / I voted" stickers. But the language doesn't matter. The act of…
- November 18, 2022Regardless of what prompts an IRS examination, aka an audit, take advantage of the Taxpayer Bill of Rights guarantee that…
- November 17, 2022These senior citizens celebrate their shared birthday month, if not the required traditional IRA withdrawals the big days may trigger.…
- November 16, 2022David Boeke via Flickr The Internal Revenue Service got billions in added funding thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act, but…
- November 15, 2022Updated Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022 You still have time to electronically claim the benefits, but not much. The deadline to…
- November 14, 2022Some of my grandmother's paintings, known as the main Vera Gallery in our house. (Photo by Kay Bell) The hubby…
November 13, 2022The IRS is finally making progress in working through its COVID closure backlog of paper tax returns.- November 12, 2022Right now, a lot of folks are thinking they should have been like Larry. The Larry they wished they'd emulated…
- November 11, 2022Korean War Memorial on National Mall, Washington, D.C. (Photo by Brittany Colette on Unsplash) 11 a.m. on Nov. 11, 1918.…
- November 10, 2022Daniel Werfel, then IRS Acting Commissioner, and Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration J. Russell George testified before Congress in…
- November 9, 2022With the holiday season fast approaching, companies are looking to add employees for the end-of-year rush. The Internal Revenue Service…
- November 8, 2022A single winning ticket for the record $2.04 billion Powerball lottery jackpot was sold in Altadena, California. The good news…
- November 7, 2022Records, tax and financial, are often among the property damaged or destroyed in a natural disaster. If you're lucky, you…
- November 6, 2022The Internal Revenue Service's Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) division is doing its part to close the Tax Gap, which now sits…
- November 5, 2022UPDATE, Nov. 5, 2022, 10:25 p.m. CDT: The Houston Astros win game 6 by a 4-1 score and are 2022…
