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As Many Celebrate 4/20, Feds Still Won’t Budge on Regulation and Taxation of Marijuana

20 April 2013

Tweet Today is April 20 or 4/20. If I get a blank stare with that proclamation, then you’re among the millions of Americans who are outside of counterculture. You see, 420 is famously (or infamously, depending on who you ask) associated with the celebration of marijuana. While there are dozens of theories about how the [...]

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Tax Day Specials, Promos And Freebies

14 April 2013

Tweet April 15. It’s that red letter day on the calendar that many taxpayers have come to hate: time to pay up to Uncle Sam. It may be painful to write that check but all across the country, retailers and restaurants are offering taxpayers a break to make the day a little brighter. Here are [...]

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Wesley Snipes Walks Out Of Prison Just Before Tax Day

5 April 2013

Tweet Wesley Snipes is a free man… mostly. TMZ is reporting that the 50 year old film actor has been released from prison. According to the popular site, Snipes was released on April 2 and transferred to the New York Community Corrections Office. He will be on house arrest thereafter until July 19. If my [...]

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Uh Oh: Bieber Crosses Line But Not The Law On Lohan Tax Remarks

15 March 2013

Tweet Pop star Justin Bieber raised eyebrows this week for his bizarre swipe at Lindsay Lohan. After being compared to the troubled Lohan in the press, Bieber took to the social media site Instagram to badmouth the Mean Girls star, saying, among other things: “to those comparing me to Lindsay Lohan look at her 2012 [...]

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Arrest of Dancing Mascot Puts Liberty Tax Wavers In The Spotlight

14 March 2013

Tweet And you thought you were having a tough tax season… Channing Gould, age 19, was arrested this week after he was shooed off of a corner at North Tarrant Parkway and Park Vista Boulevard in Fort Worth, Texas. Gould was accused of disrupting traffic, a charge he disputes. Gould says he was simply doing [...]

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Why Is Amy Poehler Going To Hell? And What Does Taylor Swift Have To Do With It?

6 March 2013

Tweet Oh, I do love it when famous people talk about tax. (Stay with me on this one… It takes a little bit.) Two of my favorite actresses/comic geniuses, Tina Fey (who made Forbes’ list of the Most Powerful Female Celebrities of 2012) and Amy Poehler, hosted the Golden Globes in January. During the show, [...]

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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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Pacquiao Balks At Vegas Fight, Claims Taxes Are Too High

12 February 2013

Tweet (Update: A reader sent an email last night suggesting that Pacquiao’s manager’s tax calculation of $10 million was too high since all of Pacquiao’s income would not be taxed at the highest tax rate. To clarify, that is correct since we have a progressive tax system (and, as was pointed out to me in [...]

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Pay Taxes On Your Super Bowl XLVII Winnings? You Can Bet On It

3 February 2013

This year, you can bet on everything from the winning team to who will score first and which Harbaugh brother – or both – will sport a cap during the game. What does all of this mean come tax time?

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