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Taxgirl Goes Dark for SOPA

18 January 2012

Quick, close your eyes. Now open them. You know, cause you can’t read the blog with your eyes closed. But remember how it looked. It was dark, right? Unfortunately, due to technical issues, I can’t actually make the site go dark for SOPA (the Stop Online Piracy Act). But I want you to get the [...]

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Online Sales Continue to Puzzle Holiday Shoppers

2 December 2011

I hate to shop. I don’t have the patience for it. I have three kids and if you’ve ever been behind me in line at the store (first of all, I apologize), you know that the whole production takes forever. Add to the timing pressure the fact that I work and I write… And well, [...]

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Change of EIN Email Scam Hitting Inboxes

9 November 2011

If you read the blog regularly, you are aware that there are a bunch of emails that pop up from time to time purporting to be from the IRS, asking you to click on all kinds of links or submit personal information. This sort of thing is a scam. That said, a reader sent me [...]

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Redesign the IRS Web Site

4 October 2011

Remember the IRS redesign? Like many others, I was puzzled by the new color combination (blue and orange, really?). As promised, I sent IRS an email asking them why those particular colors. To my surprise, they replied fairly quickly. Perhaps not so surprising, there was no real answer. Instead, I received this reply: We have [...]

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IRS Shows Off New Look

27 September 2011

So, every morning, I surf on over to the IRS website because: (a) I’m a geek like that; and (b) I want to keep on top of the latest tax news. This morning, I got quite the shock. The website is completely re-vamped. Since I hadn’t yet gotten through my first sip of coffee, I [...]

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IRS, Employers Finally Connect on Cell Phone Issues

14 September 2011

I have a terrible confession to make: I never leave the house without my cell phone. Really. I rely on my cell phone for work-related calls while I’m out of the office as well as email and messaging. I use it to check Twitter and post to Facebook, and occasionally check the web. I can [...]

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Sunday Mailbag: The Edition Where I Pretend to Know About Tech Stuff

17 July 2011

I opened up my calendar this morning and had to switch from the month view to the week view because all of my appointments were overlapping into some kind of freaky Ven diagram. My summer (which I thought would be slow) has been a whirlwind of activity, from client meetings to chauffeuring to and from [...]

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Amazon Fights Back Against Online Sales Tax Law

13 July 2011

Quick, show of hands: who wants to pay more in taxes? That’s what I thought. Clearly, Amazon.com is right. The online retail giant is planning on asking voters to chime in on whether they want to pay more in taxes. Okay, not exactly. They’re really asking voters in California to overturn the controversial new state law requiring [...]

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One Billion Served: IRS Hits Milestone

9 June 2011

The Internal Revenue Service has announced that it has now passed the one billion mark for individual tax returns processed through its electronic filing (or e-filing) program. Despite the fact that we tend to throw around the “b” word left and right these days when talking about taxes, the deficit and the budget, a billion [...]

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