- June 6, 2017Another online Internal Revenue Service tool has been taken offline, but this time it's not security related. Instead, the IRS…
- June 5, 2017Take a look at this Twitter post by Donald J. Trump back in October 2015 of his purported 2014 tax…
- June 4, 2017Most Americans living abroad don't like the U.S. requirement that they have to send the Internal Revenue Service a Form…
- June 3, 2017David Beckham made part of his estimated $450 million net worth as an underwear model. With big bucks like that,…
- June 2, 2017Reviewed and updated Friday, June 4, 2021 I'm generally a cereal person when it comes to breakfast, cold in the…
- June 1, 2017June is here! Summer. Beaches. Holidays. Weddings. Tax breaks. That's not a non sequitur or the fevered delusions of tax…
- May 31, 2017Most of us suspected it would happen. We just didn't think it would happen so soon. "It" is apparent disregard…
- May 30, 2017Donald J. Trump's first official overseas trip as president included a stop in Italy. He's back in Washington, D.C., now,…
May 29, 2017These young women are enjoying their high school graduation ceremony. Now, with diplomas in hand, they and their families are…- May 28, 2017Memorial Day in the United States is the biggest day in motorsports worldwide. The starting lights in Monte Carlo signal…
- May 26, 2017Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-New Jersey), center, makes a point as he and fellow Problem Solvers Caucus member Rep. Tom Reed…
- May 25, 2017Most Obamacare attention this week has been on the been on the revised Congressional Budget Office estimates that show the GOP…
- May 24, 2017When Donald J. Trump gets back from his first trip abroad as president, he's going to come home to something…
- May 23, 2017Mick Mulvaney, the Trump Administration's Office of Management and Budget Director, met the press this morning to discuss the 45th…
- May 22, 2017Remember that recent economic analysis that said Americans were more in debt than they've been in almost a decade? The…
- May 21, 2017Bees are critical for pollinating not just flowers, but food crops. That's why in some cases, states exempt them and…
- May 20, 2017The first Armed Forces Day was celebrated on this day 67 years ago. President Harry S. Truman led the effort…
- May 19, 2017Today, May 19, is National Bike to Work Day, the high point of National Bike to Work Month. I didn't…
- May 18, 2017Americans have again dived into the deep end of the personal debt pool "Americans have now borrowed more money than…
- May 17, 2017In his new book, "The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis — and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance,"…
- May 16, 2017Federal tax reform is still a ways off, but the prospect of an Internal Revenue Code rewrite already has prompted…
- May 15, 2017Last week's cyberattack has affected more than 200,000 computers across 150 countries. The ransomware program known as WannaCry encrypts information…
- May 14, 2017Happy Mother's Day! What a perfect day to talk about tax audits. You don't see the connection? Then you missed…
- May 13, 2017Based on how much Mom is enjoying her homemade card, I'm sure she'll absolutely love the creatively wrapped Mother's Day…
- May 12, 2017In an exclusive NBC News interview with Lester Holt, the president mentioned the letter, released today, that discusses what his…
- May 11, 2017Updated to reflect changes to tip #5 under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that became law on Dec. 22,…
- May 10, 2017This is the original blog post copy that ran on Thursday, April 23, 2015. It was updated on Wednesday, May…
- May 10, 2017What's a weight watching person to do? Artificially sweetened soft drinks, a staple of dieters' menus for decades, recently have…
- May 9, 2017I'm a big fan of teachers, not just because my grandmother and one of my aunts were teachers, but because…
- May 8, 2017The president is back in Washington, D.C., after spending the weekend not at Mar-a-Lago in South Florida, but at a closer…
- May 7, 2017If you're like me, you're probably spending your Sunday perusing the possibilities for tax code change under the Trump Administration's…
- May 6, 2017With last week's House passage of an Obamacare replacement measure, Republicans are jazzed again about redoing the U.S. tax code,…
- May 5, 2017How do I celebrate each May 5th? With guacamole, cerveza y tax tips! That means here in our Texas casa,…
- May 4, 2017The House narrowly passed its Obamacare replacement measure this afternoon by a 217 to 213 vote. Now we await Senate…
- May 3, 2017Whew! We dodged the government shutdown bullet. For now. The House and Senate have agreed on an omnibus spending bill…
- May 2, 2017Donald Trump met with truckers outside the White House and got an up-close-and-personal look at their vehicles before the drivers…
- May 1, 2017May flowers, like these Texas poppies, are one of the reasons it's such a merry month. Other reasons to be…
- April 30, 2017McMullen County is the sixth least-populous county of the 254 such jurisdictions in Texas. An estimated 820 people live there. McMullen…
- April 29, 2017The Internal Revenue Service's third attempt to bring in overdue tax money by using private debt collectors has been in…
- April 28, 2017The federal deduction for local property tax payments could be eliminated as part of the Trump Administration's tax reform proposal.…
