As you know, the Business Channel has been celebrating Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day all month – with a comment contest to solicit the best stories from our readers.
You can see all of the entries from the finalists here (and learn about my pageant history).
To vote for the best comment on my site, check out the taxgirl.com finalist.
You know that I hate, hate, hate the revised name for HR 4213: the American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act of 2010. For one, there’s nothing remotely jobby about the bill. For another, it’s awkward to say (tax loopholes closing – really?). And you can’t even do a nice anagram a la EGTRRA or…
(AUTHOR’S NOTE: The contest is now closed. That said, feel free to keep adding haiku!) Tax season officially opens on Tuesday. Why not get started with some free tax software – and a whole lot of fun? It’s my mostly annual and wildly popular taxgirl® Tax Haiku! As with the last few years, the good…
We have a winner! See comments! Our next tax trivia question is: Who said: What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin. Don’t forget: the first correct answer wins free CCH tax prep software. What’s your guess? Kelly Phillips Erb Kelly Phillips Erb, known as Taxgirl,…
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…
Happy Tax Day! It’s easy to focus on the whole writing a big check to Uncle Sam bit and have a sour taste in your mouth. But don’t despair! Tax Day also means free stuff. And free is good, right? Take advantage of some of the promos and specials running today in honor of Tax…
It’s not officially summer yet but it sure feels like it here in the northeast. We had a scorcher in Philadelphia today with temps hitting nearly 100 degrees (I think the official high was 96 degrees), marking the end (we hope) of a heat wave that saw schools close early. It seems fitting, then, to…