Time is running out to file your taxes. As a result, your questions for "ask the taxgirl" are coming even more fast and furious. I had been answering about two per week but I’m getting quite the queue, so I’m going to bump it up to once or twice a day until April 17. If…
Taxpayer asks: What is your opinion of the online Tax Software: http://www.republictax.com ? Taxgirl says: Never heard of them before. I do like software if you know what you’re doing. I personally use TurboTax, despite their horrible promotion, because they are very Mac-friendly.
Yeah, I know it’s cheating a little, but I’m the first tax professional featured in GTKYT… 1. Where are you now? At my home computer in the family room. 2. What’s your official title and what does it mean? I’m a tax attorney. Who knows what that means? 3. What books are on your nightstand?…
Since I started my tax blog, I keep getting comments that I don’t seem like someone who would like tax. So I started thinking, "Who is that exactly?" And it dawned on me… Nobody really knows. So, I’m introducing Getting To Know You Tuesdays on my site where I will feature tax professionals. I hope…
Yeah, it’s not what you’re thinking. It’s IRS. We’re in the thick of law student resume season. I know because we’re getting tons of resumes at our firm from law students looking for jobs in the tax field. Consider IRS. I clerked there while in law school and I had a blast. You can’t get…
IRS Revenue Agent Harry Willner, 59, of Fair Lawn, New Jersey, is currently awaiting trial in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, after being indicted on four counts of aiding or assisting in the preparation of false tax returns and one count of attempt to interfere with the administration of the Internal…
The Department of Justice announced this week that it hopes to shut down more than 125 Jackson Hewitt Tax Services, Inc. franchises in Illinois, Michigan, Georgia and North Carolina for what it deemed “a pervasive and massive series of tax-fraud schemes.” Jackson Hewitt is the nation’s second largest tax preparation firm; H&R Block is the nation’s…
Taxpayer asks: Hi Taxgirl,we had a baby last year, and for part of the year after I returned to work, she was watched in-home by a woman who occasionally watches another little boy. The woman is not licensed as a day care provider, but we did pay her a weekly amount, is this deductible under the…
And another three on the list of positions not to take on your individual income tax return as determined by IRS: 14. A ”reparations” tax credit exists, including arguments that African-American taxpayers may claim a tax credit on their Federal income tax returns as reparations for slavery or other historical mistreatment, that Native Americans are…
Apparently, their mothers aren’t the only ones who still love Jenkens & Gilchrist lawyers… The Virginia-based law firm of Hunton & Williams does. A lot. As previously reported, Jenkens found itself under fire amid questions linked to its tax-shelter practice. The firm eventually agreed that it would be subject to a substantial penalty (though as many of…