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Scrooge Comes Early This Year With “Christmas Tree Tax”

9 November 2011

I like a fresh-cut tree at Christmastime. Yes, I know all the arguments against buying fresh-cut Christmas trees and we do it anyway. It happens to be one of my favorite things about the holidays and now that I live in the snowy northeast, there’s something ridiculously gratifying about heading out in mittens and hats [...]

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Keeping Up With the Kardashians: Marriage, Divorce and Taxes

6 November 2011

It was an event to be remembered. Er, well, for a month or so anyway. The spectacle that was (insert whatever it is that she does for a living here since I’m clueless) Kim Kardashian’s splashy wedding to former New Jersey Nets basketball player Kris Humphries took place on August 20, 2011. Seventy two days [...]

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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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Bank Of America Officially Ditches Debit Card Fees

1 November 2011

Ah, insanely crazy debit fees, we hardly knew ye… Earlier this year, Bank of America announced plans to charge debit card customers a $5 monthly fee for simply existing and then tried to pass off the fees as a tax. The backlash was swift and painful. Just last week, Bank of America’s competitors, Chase and [...]

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Big Banks Switch Course on Debit Card Fees

29 October 2011

I was wrong. There, I said it. I was absolutely convinced that Bank of America‘s plan to charge its own customers fees for using their own debit cards would stick. I was also convinced that Bank of America’s competitors, Chase and Wells Fargo, would jump on the customer gouging bandwagon. After all, it’s happened before, [...]

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I’m From The Government And I’m Here To Help

21 October 2011

Twenty five years ago, pop singer Michael Jackson was in the news. Big shoulder pads were all the rage. Libya was under siege. Federal spending outpaced revenues. The U.S. was fighting its way out of a recession. And following a round of tax cuts that didn’t live up to expectations, the words “tax reform” were [...]

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The Business of Being Lindsay

13 October 2011

Ah, Lindsay Lohan. Always good for water cooler conversation. According to the gossip site TMZ, Lindsay is facing legal woes again. This time, she allegedly stiffed a limo company, Elite Transportation Limo and Security Services, for services from February 2009 to May 2009. The tally? A whopping $90,585.79. It’s the kind of thing that makes [...]

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The Pot Plot Thickens: Update

7 October 2011

So even as I was writing the story about the IRS’ audit of Harborside on yesterday, I couldn’t make sense of it. It felt so heavy handed on the part of the IRS that it had to be part of some bigger mandate – this was no mere tax audit. I got my answer this [...]

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IRS Just Says No to Medical Marijuana Deductions

6 October 2011

Our culture is fascinated with marijuana. We speak in hushed tones about cocaine and other “hard” drugs but we’re pretty outspoken about marijuana. It’s even become a question bandied about during presidential campaigns with former President Bill Clinton famously saying that he “didn’t inhale and never tried inhaling again” prompting one MTV viewer to ask [...]

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New Jersey Says No To Tax Credit for “Jersey Shore”

26 September 2011

As it turns out, the New Jersey tax credit wasn’t a “shore” thing after all (I know, it was a terrible pun but I couldn’t help it). New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) has decided against a $420,000 tax credit for the hit MTV show, Jersey Shore, taking his veto pen to the credit after [...]

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