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Back to School: Deductions for Soccer, Cheerleading and Extracurricular Activities?

15 September 2011

I need a full time assistant just to manage the kids these days (don’t worry, Mom, I don’t actually have one). School started last week which means that this week, extracurricular activities have started in earnest. In addition to escorting my kids back and forth to dance, gymnastics and soccer, respectively, I have to spend [...]

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Ask the taxgirl: Deductions for Cheftestants

27 April 2011

Taxpayer asks: I was watching Top Chef Masters and I ahd a question. I know you have to report your winnings on a game show. On the Masters version, the chefs don’t get the money because it goes to charity. My question is can they take a tax deduction? taxgirl says: I haven’t seen Top [...]

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Tax Book Giveaway

22 March 2011

It’s a giveaway! The folks at J.K. Lasser have donated two copies of their book, J.K. Lasser’s Your Income Tax 2011: For Preparing Your 2010 Tax Return. I’m giving one away on Facebook and one on the blog. To enter to win on the blog, all you have to do is answer this question by [...]

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Saturday Night Live

24 January 2011

I was on the radio Saturday night – late, my time – on KGO. You can listen to the clip here (I’m on at about minute 47). I’m talking about deductions (you can read the piece we’re talking about here). And yes, I now realize that the 2010 business mileage rate is 50 cents per [...]

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Senate Votes to Eliminate Tax Deduction for Punitive Damages

21 June 2010

When I was a little girl, rather than completely clean up my room, I used to decorate it. I’d make a tissue flower and put it in the corner or hang a lovely paper chain on the bed. I guess I figured that if I prettied it up a bit, it would distract my parents [...]

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Think Pink This Mother’s Day

2 May 2010

If you were to make a list of things about me and things about my mom, you’d notice a lot of differences. She lives in the south and likes rodeos, westerns on AMC and Christmas sweaters. Me? I live up north and I like baseball games, quirky British comedies and I wear a lot of [...]

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Who Should Pay Taxes?

14 March 2010

On Friday, I posted that the Tax Foundation reported that, in 2008, nearly one in three taxpayers paid no taxes or received every dollar back which was withheld. It’s the highest percentage of nonpayers ever. Think about that for a second. It’s pretty scary. For 2008, those numbers mean that there were about 51.6 million [...]

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Looking for a Year End Donation?

30 December 2009

Psst… Looking for a year end donation? As you may know, I am running the Komen Race for the Cure in 2010 in honor of my grandmother – you can read about our mutual love of coffee here. Our team is Team Joye. You can support us in a few ways: One, you can make [...]

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Can Williams get a tax break for her tirade?

2 December 2009

Can Williams get a tax break for her tirade? Following on the heels of my Belichik post last year… can Serena Williams properly deduct her record fine for bad behavior?

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Bankruptcy and Tax Deductions

9 November 2009

I get a number of bankruptcy-related questions submitted via ask the taxgirl. That’s why I was intrigued when I was asked to write a piece on Wallet Pop about how Chapter 13 payments affect your taxes. You can check out what I had to say here: Wage earner’s bankruptcy doesn’t kill all tax deductions. If [...]

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