Taxpayer asks: Several elderly friends have asked me to help them with administratrive work in there home. I would probably do this on an ongoing
Read MoreMonth: November 2009
Girls Gone Wild Founder To File Bankruptcy, Blames IRS
And here I thought my days of reporting on Joe Francis were over… It turns out that the Girls Gone Wild founder hasn’t quite put
Read MoreSo Tell Me, Taxpayer, Do You Feel Lucky?
It was a question posed to US taxpayers by the IRS in the wake of the UBS scandal: do you feel lucky? The US offered
Read MoreTax By The Kilometer: A New Meaning To “Going Dutch”
The Dutch are well known for Delft pottery, wooden shoes, legalized prostitution, and windmills. Perhaps not surprisingly, many of those things haven’t caught on in
Read MoreSingapore, Liechtenstein No Longer Gray
Who says that a little pressure doesn’t work these day? Singapore and Liechtenstein have both apparently decided that they wanted to be one of the
Read MoreIt’s A Tax Lien, Dahling
The woman who claims that she “never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back” may have to change her mind when it comes
Read MoreFix The Tax Code Friday: Targeted Enforcement
IRS Commish Doug Shulman has not been shy about talking about targeted enforcement. Targeted enforcement – the idea of cherry picking certain target groups to
Read MoreOoh… I Get It… We Still Have to Pay For This Thing
As part of the continuing discussions about health care reform, the spectre of how to pay for it has risen again. Yeah, cause that’s how
Read MoreIRS Awards Funds: Guess Who Gets Nothing?
The IRS announced that it has awarded nearly $8 million in matching grants to support its Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program. The funds will
Read MoreTax Havens Suddenly Not All The Rage
Suddenly, it’s not so fashionable to have your money in Swiss banks. That’s sooo February 2009. This season, all of the trendy tax evaders are
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