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Tackling Those Confusing 1099 And W-2 Changes

27 January 2012

If tax documents arriving now are giving you the mailbox blues, here’s help.

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Credit Card Reporting for Tax Purposes Debuts This Month

13 January 2012

Form W-2, check. Form 1099-Misc, check. Form 1098, check. Form 1099-K… wait, what? Yep, there’s a new form from the IRS out this year and one might be landing in your mailbox soon. The federal form 1099-K, Merchant Card and Third Party Network Payments, will debut early this year: forms 1099-K are due to merchants [...]

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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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New Credit Card Reporting Requirement Worries Some Taxpayers

25 October 2011

And you thought bank fees were bad… There’s a new form on the block, Form 1099-K, Merchant Card and Third Party Network Payments, making its debut in a few months, just in time for the 2012 filing season. The form is the result of new compliance reporting requirements for certain credit card and third party [...]

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Mamma Mia! Italian Tax Records For Sale on eBay!

15 May 2008

On May 5, the idea of bargain shopping on eBay took a new twist. Item 100237099149 went up for sale for the sum of $75 but the item was actually quite priceless. You see, what appeared to be just another auction item was actually a CD containing the “income-tax returns for 2005 of the entire [...]

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IRS Again Pursuing Offshore Funds

11 April 2006

A federal court in San Jose, California, gave the IRS permission to ask PayPal Inc. for account information for American taxpayers who have bank accounts, credit cards or debit cards issued by financial institutions over the last ten years in more than 30 countries reputed to be tax havens. This is similar to a summons [...]

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Only five shopping days left till Christmas…

20 December 2005

As seen on TaxProf blog, this tee shirt is for sale on eBay (I am not intending to promote eBay here, having no experience with the site ever, just passing along the details for your amusement). The print on the shirt says, “IRS: We’ve got what it takes to take what you got” – okay, [...]

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