- April 16, 2017If you've waited until now to finish your taxes (or are going to delay until the very last minute on…
April 15, 2017Estimated taxes can be confusing, but they are required when you get income that isn't subject to withholding. Here's the…- April 14, 2017No maybe about it. Taxpayers will be calling the Internal Revenue Service this weekend as the April 18 tax return…
- April 13, 2017As if you and your tax adviser weren't already crunched enough in April, this filing season there's a new deadline…
- April 12, 2017Time is rapidly running out this filing season to make tax-saving moves, but adding to an IRA could be a…
- April 11, 2017You have a mortgage. That home's property taxes are waaaay too big. (Note to self: Protest the appraisal.) And you…
- April 11, 2017Indian police on Saturday, April 8, arrested the man they believe is the mastermind behind what has been called the…
- April 10, 2017Most of us — Internal Revenue Service data shows around 70 percent of taxpayers — don't mess with itemized deductions. Instead…
- April 10, 2017Judge Neil Gorsuch, nominated by Donald J. Trump to fill the U.S. Supreme Court vacancy created by the unexpected death…
- April 9, 2017You know there's Free File, but you'd really feel more comfortable getting some face-to-face help filling out your taxes. The…
- April 8, 2017Back before I was totally focused on taxes — yes, I know that's hard to imagine — I worked for a…
- April 7, 2017One of the biggest taxpayer fears is being audited. Realistically, unless you're aggressively pushing the tax envelope, it's not something…
- April 6, 2017It was supposed to be the annual Capitol Hill review of how the current tax filing season is going. It…
- April 6, 2017Click image to watch Stephen Colbert's character Otto Sanchez "advise" H&R Block customers. Stephen Colbert has assumed a variety of…
- April 5, 2017Tax filing must keep evolving. That's the word from Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen, who today made his fourth…
- April 4, 2017And so it starts. Again. As mandated by Congress, the Internal Revenue Service has turned over some delinquent tax accounts…
- April 3, 2017It's finally here! Uncle Sam's favorite month, no April fooling, since it's the home to the Internal Revenue Service's annual…
- April 2, 2017Californians who just can't kick their nicotine habit are now paying substantially more for their addiction. Effective April 1, the…
- April 1, 2017Have you made it through April Fools' Day without getting pranked? Good for you. Now be sure you don’t fall…
- March 31, 2017This is the original blog post copy that ran on Monday, March 24, 2014. It was updated on Friday, March…
- March 31, 2017The Congressional investigations into alleged improper Russia-Trump Administration connections are attracting worldwide attention. Click image to watch the NBC News…
- March 30, 2017The Internal Revenue Service collected more than $3.3 trillion during the 2016 fiscal year. That tax tidbit is part of…
- March 29, 2017Everybody saw this coming. The Republican-controlled Ways and Means Committee killed the latest effort by Democrats to get a glimpse…
- March 28, 2017Most high-income investors last were likely a little bummed last week when the Republican proposal to replace the Affordable Care…
- March 27, 2017This is the original blog post copy that ran on Friday, December 26, 2014. It was updated on Monday, March…
- March 27, 2017The annual tax filing due date is the big day each April. Instead of falling on the usual April 15,…
- March 27, 2017UPDATE, Nov. 9, 2020: This RMD table is in effect through tax year 2021. There were no RMDs in 2020.…
- March 26, 2017House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-Texas) is confident that tax reform will happen this year. And here's a…
- March 25, 2017Did you hear the Amazon.com tax news? No, I'm not talking about the online retailing giant's decision to collect sales…
- March 24, 2017Ah, youth. The excitement. The energy. The illusion of immortality. The first-ever filing of a tax return. Boom. Taxes often…
- March 23, 2017When Amazon starts collecting sales tax from internet buyers in Hawaii, Idaho, Maine and New Mexico on April 1, it…
- March 22, 2017Health Savings Accounts, or HSAs, have increased in popularity since they were created in 2004. More than 20 million people…
- March 21, 2017The April filing deadline (it's on the 18th this year) is less than a month away. So far, the tax season…
- March 20, 2017Bluebonnets, the state flower of Texas, are among the wildflowers that emerged early this year thanks to warmer than normal…
- March 19, 2017On April 1, Idaho residents will join the almost nationwide list of places where Amazon collects sales tax. No kidding.…
- March 18, 2017A Pennsylvania man said he didn't file 10 years' worth of federal tax returns because the forms required use of…
- March 17, 2017Aquarena Springs in San Marcos, Texas, was famous in its heyday, part of which just happened to coincide with my…
- March 16, 2017Let me make this very clear from the get-go. I never, ever, ever recommend that anyone cheat on his or…
- March 15, 2017Are we having tax fun yet? We did for while last night when it looked like we finally might get…
- March 14, 2017Yes, there's the Republican plan to replace Obamacare. And, yes, a serious winter storm is pounding the Northeast. But today,…
