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  • ‘Working at the IRS sucks,’ according to employees

    April 11, 2015
    This showed up in my snail mail box today: Working for the nation's tax collector has never been an easy…
  • Above-the-line deductions offer tax breaks without itemizing

    April 11, 2015
    I know I just extolled the virtues of tax credits over tax deductions. But you don't have to pick one…
  • 12 tax credits that could cut your IRS bill

    April 10, 2015
    Tax deductions, whether itemized or above-the-line, and tax credits can save you money, but they do so in different ways.…
  • 10 tax sins of commission that could be quite costly

    April 9, 2015
    This post was reviewed and some links updated on Thursday, April 6, 2017. It's one thing to make an innocent…
  • IRS headquarters hit by brief Washington, D.C., power outage
    Avoid possible tax & other problems by not waiting until last minute to file

    April 8, 2015
    Tuesday was a dark day at the Internal Revenue Service. Literally. The tax agency's downtown Washington, D.C., headquarters was among buildings in the national capital hit…
  • Don’t commit these 10 costly tax sins of omission

    April 8, 2015
    This post was reviewed and updated Wednesday, April 5, 2017 A sin of omission basically is a failure to do…
  • Chaffetz goes after tax-delinquent federal employees (again)
    Federal workers owe $1 billion; military, retirees owe another $2.4 billion

    April 7, 2015
    It's that time of year again. No, I'm not talking about the rapidly approaching tax-filing deadline. (Yikes, can we slow…
  • Don’t bet on fooling IRS with bought losing lottery tickets

    April 6, 2015
    No, this is not another nag reminder from me to report your NCAA men's basketball championship winning bets as income…
  • Mad Men’s Pete Campbell complains about 1970’s tax rates

    April 6, 2015
    Thank you Matthew Weiner and Mad Men writers for another tax tidbit in last night's return of the show. When the…
  • Cigarette tax hike seen as way to fill Alabama budget gap
    AMC’s ‘Mad Men’ and the changing views, roles of cigarettes in America

    April 5, 2015
    Alabama smokers now pay 42.5 cents in taxes on each pack of cigarettes they purchase. If the Yellowhammer State's governor…
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