March 12, 2015

One of the benefits of a do-nothing Congress, at least from lawmakers' perspective, is that all the uncompleted work offers…

March 11, 2015

Comprehensive, complete tax code rewrite? Not a good idea. It simply puts off the possible when it comes to improving our…

March 10, 2015

About this time every tax season, I start wanting to take a vacation. Maybe this year I should take a…

March 8, 2015

Next week should be fun. U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew says that unless Congress increases the federal debt ceiling, the…

March 7, 2015

Life. It just keeps keeping on (if we're lucky!). For most of us, our day-to-day activities fall into a predictable…

March 6, 2015

Who do people dislike more than politicians? Internal Revenue Service employees. So what the heck is former IRS Commissioner Mark…

March 5, 2015

Tax filing can be confusing and frustrating for most of us. Even criminals. Take the crook who stole Seth Rouse's…

March 4, 2015

I'm a native Texan who returned home almost 10 years ago and is still re-acclimating to the wackiness that is…

March 3, 2015

It's not unusual that the big news this filing season is the growing concern about tax identity theft as a…

March 2, 2015

Conventional political wisdom is that no candidate can win by supporting new or higher taxes. In fact, office seekers tend…