• May 1, 2006
    Since I work from home, I'm spared commuting hassles. No stop-and-go traffic or early morning and late afternoon screaming at…

  • April 21, 2006
    I found the carpet in my office today. It's that oatmeal color favored by builders and people who are sprucing…

  • April 19, 2006
    In all my years of filing taxes, I've gotten two follow-up letters from the IRS. The first was back in…

  • April 7, 2006
    That was the subject line from a reader's e-mail the other day. She was at wit's end trying to find…

  • April 6, 2006
    Yesterday I threw a couple of rocks at tax preparation chains that messed up client returns. Today, I've been Windexing…

  • April 5, 2006
    Did you pay a tax preparer to do your return in February or March? You might want to pull that…

  • March 30, 2006
    I'm not a fan of stock options. They were "the" benefit back in the dot-com heyday and a few places…

  • March 28, 2006
    Call it the IRS version of Crime Stoppers. You know, the program in almost every community where law enforcement solicits…

  • March 27, 2006
    The IRS has issued a stop-work order to three private debt-collection firms that were awarded contracts earlier this month to…

  • March 26, 2006
    It's official. I'm tax scam bait. This showed up in my e-mail on Saturday: From: Internal Revenue Service To: DontMessWithTaxes…