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About Those Leaked Wal-Mart Emails… Is IRS To Blame For Sluggish Sales?

22 February 2013

Wal-Mart had the worst sales start in seven years. So what gives? Are consumers unhappy with Wal-Mart or is it something more?

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Ship Isn’t The Only Thing That Stinks At Carnival: Low Tax Rate Stirs Ire

16 February 2013

Tweet I love a good cruise story – even those gone bad. Gilligan’s Island? I’d totally live with those seven strangers (did anyone else find the Professor dreamy?).  And the Titanic? Even when dying, Leonardo DiCaprio managed to make Kate Winslet swoon. Being shipwrecked or smacking into an iceberg at least makes a good romantic [...]

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Throwing A Holiday Party That Even Uncle Sam Will Love

14 December 2012

Tweet Dear corporate types, I do love the B52s but under no circumstances should “Rock Lobster” be played – and danced to – at a company party. That was my tweet on yesterday. I happened to be working at a venue not far from such a party. It was a mishmash of mostly middle-aged corporate [...]

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Vice President Biden Shops Costco As Costco Shops Tax Deal

30 November 2012

Tweet So what do Vice President Joe Biden and I have in common? We both have a Costco card. It’s true. If you follow the blog (or me on @twitter), you know that I recently moved out of the city. And once here, I consulted my “What to do when you move into the suburbs” [...]

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Moving Right Along: Deducting Work-Related Moving Expenses

19 August 2012

Tweet It’s a pretty exciting week at the law firm: we’re moving to a new location. I’ll admit to being a little nostalgic about the big move. We’ve been in the same offices for more than eight years. I was actually hugely pregnant with my daughter when we signed the lease and had to sign [...]

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Study Reveals The Obvious: CEOs Get Paid More Than Uncle Sam

16 August 2012

Tweet Math is, apparently, really hard. A new study released by the Institute for Policy Studies has revealed the following, very not so shocking information: a number of U.S. companies paid their CEOs more last year than they paid the federal government in tax. This is where you’re expecting a big rant, right? Nope. Morality [...]

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Raising Money From the (Corporate) Dead

18 July 2012

Tweet Last week, my firm received mail from IRS advising that their records showed that no payroll tax returns had been filed on behalf of a certain corporate client which I recognized as now defunct. The company never had employees and now, clearly, it never will. The next day, I received a similar letter from [...]

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Proponents of California Tobacco Tax Increase Concede Defeat

25 June 2012

Tweet Light up, California! You have no worries. It turns out that, with just a few days left to count and certify ballots, proponents of Proposition 29 are officially conceding that the measure will not pass. The measure, which landed on ballots this month, would have increased the state tax on tobacco in the Golden [...]

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What Happens in Vegas: Traveling for Business

13 June 2012

Tweet I’m on my way home from Vegas today. I’ve been here for the last few days for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Practitioners Symposium and TECH+ Conference in partnership with the Association for Accounting Marketing Summit at the Aria Resort & Casino, Las Vegas, NV. AICPA is the world’s largest association [...]

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Small Business Owners Weigh In On Tax Cuts, the Buffett Rule and the Election

30 May 2012

Tweet When it comes to tax, everyone has an opinion about what’s best for small businesses. President Obama has told us what small businesses want. Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has told us what small businesses want. Congress has told us what small businesses want. But small businesses haven’t really told us what they want. I [...]

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