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Congress Needs Some Advice in 2012

30 December 2011

The New Year is almost here! And Congress is still, well, Congress. Clearly, they need a little direction for 2012 so I thought I’d ask you, my readers, what you hope to see happen next year and we’ll make a contest out of it. So since Congress is so fond of pork… the prize is [...]

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What You Can Buy With Your Payroll Tax Cut From Congress

25 December 2011

After all of the drama, Congress managed to push through a payroll tax cut extension just before the holidays. The payroll tax cut was extended for two months, saving the average taxpayer a grand total of $166. These days, that won’t get you very far. Depending on where you live, it works out to: 43 [...]

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Death and Taxes and Children

19 December 2011

The death of a child is a terrible thing. It’s hard enough to deal with the emotional and practical consequences – but what about the financial and tax consequences? It’s not something we like to think about but it is a real consideration for many families. The issue is on the minds of many this [...]

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Taxgirl Gets Nod from ABA Journal

10 December 2011

Whew, it’s nearly mid-December already. How did this happen? The month has flown by so quickly that I haven’t had time to thank the editors of the ABA Journal for selecting taxgirl as one of the Blawg 100, the top 100 best law blogs by lawyers. The ABA said, about my blog: [entity display="Kelly Phillips [...]

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IRS Responds to Criticisms Of Preparer Notices

22 November 2011

Well that was quick. Days after the IRS sent out copies of the Notice 4809 to 21,000(ish) tax preparers, complaints were already flying. One tax preparer crafted this response to IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman while others took to Twitter and other [entity id="section_76" style="padding: 1px; color: #fff; background: #336699;" class="forbes_entity" active="true" item_id="section_76" key="/social-media" display="Social Media" [...]

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Supporters Go Naked for Accused Tax Evader

21 November 2011

Talk about the naked truth. Fans of beleaguered artist Ai Weiwei have tapped the power of the internet to show their support… by posing naked. Ai Weiwei was charged with tax evasion earlier this year, a charge that he claims is related to his outspoken criticism of the Chinese government. He was able to raise [...]

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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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Do Americans Want to Pay Higher Taxes To Reduce Our Debt?

26 July 2011

Do Americans want to pay higher taxes to pay down our debt? It depends on who you’re listening to. Much has been made of wealthy taxpayers publicly stating that they want to pay higher taxes even as Congress is arguing that most Americans don’t want to taxes to be raised on anyone, full stop. This [...]

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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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