States To Tax Deadbeats: Let's Make A Deal – Forbes.com

ByKelly Phillips Erb April 14, 2010November 14, 2019

Thrilled to be interviewed for a piece in Forbes, out today:

States To Tax Deadbeats: Let’s Make A Deal – Forbes.com

Kelly Phillips Erb

Kelly Phillips Erb, known as Taxgirl, is a tax attorney, writer, and speaker who explains tax news, IRS updates, scams, financial crime, and money in plain English.

International | Tax Policy

Residency, Revised
ByKelly Phillips Erb September 5, 2006November 14, 2019

Changes to the Tax Code, tax reporting, and tax policy are generally reflective of the state of mind of the country at any given time. In other words, Congress uses taxes to modify your behavior (gasp). Think about it… We tax cigarettes and alcohol (sin taxes) to discourage those behaviors and we call those taxes…

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Politics | State and Local Tax (SALT)

How Will Your State Be Impacted By Sequestration?
ByKelly Phillips Erb February 24, 2013July 7, 2020

Five days. That’s how long until the sequestration goes into effect. Sequestration, painted as one half of the worst thing ever, is a series of across the board federal cuts that are scheduled to occur if Congress doesn’t act to cut spending. And Congress hasn’t acted on spending since 2011 (when they voted not to…

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Politics | Tax Policy

Over 2,000 Businesses Send Letter To Congress Demanding Attention To Tax Extenders Bill
ByKelly Phillips Erb September 10, 2015

Last year, the Senate waited until just over two weeks left in the calendar year to pass a bill that extended certain tax provisions through December 31, 2014 (retroactive to January 1, 2014). In contrast, this year it felt like Congress was getting a jump on things when they began contemplating a tax extender package…

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Small Business | State and Local Tax (SALT)

Tax & The City: Philly Tax Takes On A Life Of Its Own
ByKelly Phillips Erb August 25, 2010

On Sunday night, I got a text from a friend. It said simply, “Did you hear about the Philly blogger tax?” I hadn’t heard of such a thing and made a mental note to check the news later to see what she was talking about. Less than an hour later, I got the following message…

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Politics | Pop culture | Tax Policy

Lawmakers, Guns & Money: Where Do We Go After Sandy Hook?
ByKelly Phillips Erb December 19, 2012

This is our first task — caring for our children. It’s our first job. If we don’t get that right, we don’t get anything right. That’s how, as a society, we will be judged. – President Obama, Sandy Hook Interfaith Prayer Vigil President Obama delivered what many consider the most powerful speech of his political…

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Sales Tax | State and Local Tax (SALT)

Sales Tax Laws Keep Changing As More Shoppers Go Online
ByKelly Phillips Erb August 3, 2020November 19, 2020

If you find yourself clicking over to do some online shopping more than before, you’re not alone. Web sales are up from last year in the U.S., reaching $73.2 billion as compared with $41.5 billion a year earlier. That’s true even though the U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) was down a record 33% in the second quarter, unemployment…

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