• 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…

  • March 23, 2006
    I don't like basketball. There, I said it. I said it here in Austin, where scores of other residents apparently…

  • March 22, 2006
    OK people. You really need to get a grip on what you're selling on eBay. Same goes for buyers. If…