The Year That Was: Top Tax Stories Of 2011
It’s officially 2012 today and it’s my obligatory wrap up post. Okay, sort of obligatory. As a math geek, I find the whole stats thing pretty fascinating and it’s fun for me to figure out which posts I thought were most significant as compared to the views. Follows are the top viewed stories, my personal choices for the top stories and a few honorable mentions. Check them out, let me know if they matched your best guesses…
Here are the top ten taxgirl stories that you found interesting, by number of views, in 2011:
10. Congress Offers Tax Free Flights – For Now
9. New Rules About Forms 1099 Are Causing a Stir
8. Dear IRS: A Tax Pro Fires Back
7. It’s Baaaack: Making Work Pay Credit
6. Calculating the Making Work Pay Credit 2011
5. Five Things I Wish I Knew Before I Lost My Job
4. Keeping Up With the Kardashians: Marriage, Divorce and Taxes
3. Casey Anthony On Trial, Liened by IRS
2. Cyber Monday Sales Tax Free – But For How Long?
1. Bank of America Debit Card Fees Slammed as Durbin Tax
(The list was compiled using a combination of my stats from Forbes and my Google analytics since my move to Forbes happened midyear).
And here are the top ten taxgirl stories that I think reflected best reflected the state of tax and financial policy in 2011:
10. Apple Likely Waiting on Tax Holiday
9. Bank of America Debit Card Fees Slammed as Durbin Tax
8. Gingrich, Perry Float ‘Flat Tax’ Proposals
7. 1099 Repeal Still All Talk
6. Dramatic Turnabout in Amazon’s Fight with California
5. Occupy Wall Street Raises Questions About Taxes, Money and Blame
4. Dear IRS: A Tax Pro Fires Back
3. Clock Ticks As Super Committee Ready to Admit Failure
2. Airline Taxes, Job Cuts Tied to Fights Over Subsidies and Unions
1. Congress Takes a Holiday, Passes Payroll Tax Cut Extension Anyway
Some quick honorable mentions:
- The story that meant the most to me while I was writing it: Making Sense of Where Our Tax Dollars Go
- The story that I learned the most while writing it: Death and Taxes: The Real Cost of the Death Penalty
- The story that was the hardest for me to write: The Post I Swore I Wouldn’t Write
- And the story that I had the most fun writing this year: a tie between 10 Uses for Leftover Halloween Candy and my annual April Fool’s Day post
It’s been a great year at taxgirl. I want to offer a special thanks to my readers. I have the best readers in the entire blogosphere. I am incredibly lucky to have this opportunity to get up every day, flip on my laptop and write about what interests me, knowing that I have this wonderful, engaged community of readers. I truly appreciate your comments on the blog – even (or in some instances, especially) when I don’t agree with you – as well as your questions, emails, tweets and posts on Facebook.
I see great things on the horizon… May 2012 exceed your expectations!
