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Tax Increases Looming in 2013: Who Pays, How Much and Will They Stick?

10 November 2012

Tweet Over lunch, the day after the election, my husband brought up the “f” word. You know, the one I’ve thus far been refusing to say (hint: it rhymes with “biscal piff”). He had been reading the news and was wondering how badly this would affect us. I could barely choke down my broccoli as [...]

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Obama Wins Four More Years, Congress Moves Little

7 November 2012

Tweet Wow, all that coffee tonight and I didn’t even need to stay up very late! Almost all of the major networks and media have called the race for President Barack Obama. It appears that the Senate will be controlled by the Democrats and the House will be controlled by the House (as predicted). So, [...]

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Did The Debates Offer Enough ‘Hope and Change’ for the Obama/Biden Ticket?

16 October 2012

Tweet After the first (and only) Vice Presidential debate, I noted that two minutes wasn’t a lot of time to talk about taxes. It is, as I said, what makes debates both fun and frustrating. The vice presidential debate did not disappoint on that scale. Following the debate, the talk was partly about Sen. Ryan’s [...]

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Ask the taxgirl: “Real Estate Tax” In Health Care Law?

19 February 2011

Tweet Taxpayer asks: Please tell me this isn’t so…..Under the new health care bill, all real estate transactions will be subject to a 3.8 % sales tax. This new tax is supposed to kick in 2013. taxgirl says: I’ve gotten a few questions about this so-called “real estate tax” lately. Concern about the “tax” has [...]

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