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Taxgirl Gets Nod from ABA Journal

10 December 2011

Whew, it’s nearly mid-December already. How did this happen? The month has flown by so quickly that I haven’t had time to thank the editors of the ABA Journal for selecting taxgirl as one of the Blawg 100, the top 100 best law blogs by lawyers. The ABA said, about my blog: [entity display="Kelly Phillips [...]

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Snakes in a Tax Office

6 December 2011

It’s not unusual to hear reports of corruption in tax offices in some states in India. Taxpayers have come to understand that it’s a way of life, including regular demands by public officials to pay bribes, sometimes holding tax records hostage until the bribes were paid. Well, some taxpayers. Two farmers in Basti, located in [...]

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Cost of 12 Days of Christmas Mirrors National Economy

29 November 2011

Finally some good news: the cost of living is apparently holding steady. Earlier this week, the IRS announced that interest rates will remain the same for the calendar quarter beginning January 1, 2012. And that’s not the only indicator… The PNC Christmas Price Index® has been released this year and prices seem to be holding [...]

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Voters Chime In On Super Committee

21 November 2011

It’s all about the Super Committee today. Over on Facebook, Joanne Bamberger (a/k/a Pundit Mom) asked voters a simple question: Please finish this sentence — If I had been on the Super Committee I would have … ??? She turned the responses into a post for her blog: check it out.

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Taxgirl Gets Nod from LexisNexis

19 November 2011

Aww shucks (*blushing*). The nice folks at LexisNexis have advised that my blog at taxgirl.com has been selected as one of the LexisNexis Top 20 Tax [entity id="section_84" style="padding: 1px; color: #fff; background: #336699;" class="forbes_entity" active="true" item_id="section_84" key="/law" display="Law" natural_id="channel_5section_84" type="section" active="false"]Law[/entity] Blogs of 2011. The voting for the top blog begins now. You can [...]

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10 Uses for Leftover Halloween Candy

1 November 2011

I love Halloween. I do. I love the camp, the excess, the whole over the top vibe. I dress up every year. I make my kids’ costumes for our school parade. I bake ridiculous amounts of cupcakes and make silly snacks that are meant to look gross like hotdogs that look like bloody toes in [...]

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Chinese Government Attempts to Censor Online Access After Tax Riots

28 October 2011

Riot police have reportedly moved in to calm protestors after rioting broke out inside a metro area over taxes. No, this isn’t Oakland, California. It’s Huzhou, China, a textiles center located in the northern Zhejiang province of eastern China. Earlier this week, a children’s clothing business in Huzhou refused to pay its tax bill. The [...]

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Perry Wants You to Know that Romney is Rich: Do You Care?

27 October 2011

Let’s say that you have a shot at your dream job. You’ve done your homework, you’ve put in the hours, you’ve managed to get through the interview. There’s just one more thing: your tax return. Your potential employer has asked to you to disclose your tax return with the understanding that the information on the [...]

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Run With It: Sports, Races and Taxes

25 October 2011

Over the weekend, I ran my first ever half marathon. I’m not gonna sit here and say it was easy. It was not. It was hard (note to self: When the web site warns, “Our course is not considered easy and fast,” pay attention.) But I finished in a quite respectable 2:18. So why did [...]

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Comment for the Cure: Breast Cancer Awareness and Tax

20 October 2011

If you read the blog regularly, you probably already know a little bit about my maternal grandmother. If you don’t, let me fill you in… She made the best vegetable soup in the world. She raised eight children, including an invalid son whom she refused to institutionalize even though everyone told her different. She dyed [...]

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