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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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Comment for the Cure: Breast Cancer Awareness and Tax

20 October 2011

If you read the blog regularly, you probably already know a little bit about my maternal grandmother. If you don’t, let me fill you in… She made the best vegetable soup in the world. She raised eight children, including an invalid son whom she refused to institutionalize even though everyone told her different. She dyed [...]

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Back to School: Special Food Needs

8 September 2011

The snack lists have already come home from school (my first parent snack day is September 22 – someone remind me so that I don’t become that mom who forgets). Snack day is a lot more tricky these days than in the past. I’m sure you’re thinking of the obvious reason but as a mom, [...]

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Back to School: Volunteering Your Services

6 September 2011

My kids started school today and already the cry for volunteers has started. I’m not complaining because I get it. Schools are increasingly the target of cuts in spending (deserved or not is another question) and as a result, they are in a scramble to make up for missing programs, teacher shortages and funding. Fortunately, [...]

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Winehouse Death Renews Debate About Addiction and Choice

30 July 2011

The death of Amy Winehouse made headlines everywhere. Winehouse’s career was short but brilliant; her life was similarly short but controversial. By all accounts, she drank too much, partied too hard and did too many drugs. And sadly, at the age of 27, her body simply couldn’t take it any more. Much has been written [...]

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Deduct This: History of the Tax Attorney’s Fees Deduction

25 June 2011

Wait? You mean that you didn’t know that there was such a thing as the tax attorney’s fees deduction? Well, perhaps that’s because it’s not actually called the tax attorney’s fees deduction. Tax attorneys like me just like to call it that. It’s technically part of the Job Expenses and Certain Miscellaneous Deductions subject to [...]

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Deduct This: The History of the Medical Expenses Deduction

20 June 2011

When you ask most taxpayers about available tax deductions, the deduction for medical expenses immediately springs to mind. It’s probably one of the most talked about deductions (in fact, a fairly significant portion of the questions submitted to the blog by taxpayers focus on the medical expenses) but the reality is that very few taxpayers [...]

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Ask the taxgirl: Politicians and Job Hunting Expenses

6 November 2010

Taxpayer asks: Can successful or failed contenders deduct their expenses from the federal taxes as a job hunting related expense? Got to wonder what Whitman was thinking spending all that money except, I can deduct these ‘loans” one way or the other not as a political contribution (rather limited) but a job hunting expense. Curious [...]

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Ask the taxgirl: Work-Related Education

28 February 2010

Taxpayer asks: Hi Taxgirl, This is related to a previous question your answered. I am searching all over the place for the answer to this question, and I can’t seem to find it. I know that my work-related education is tax deductible and that I have to include it on my Schedule C form. However, [...]

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Ask the taxgirl: Defending My Blog

10 February 2010

Taxpayer asks: Hi taxgirl, I have a strange question. I write a food blog. I create and cook all of my own recipes and post them online. Two years ago, I found out that someone was stealing my recipes and some of my photos and using them on another site. I ended up hiring a [...]

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