It’s got to be hard to be a Dodgers fan these days. All-Star center fielder Matt Kemp just came off the DL only to find himself injured again this week. Injuries continue to plague other players including Mark Ellis, Ted Lilly, and Juan Rivera. And the Dodgers have little money to buy their way out…
When it comes to tax, everyone has an opinion about what’s best for small businesses. President Obama has told us what small businesses want. Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has told us what small businesses want. Congress has told us what small businesses want. But small businesses haven’t really told us what they want. I suspect…
We’re under an Excessive Heat Warning in Philadelphia. In May. Don’t get me started about how much this stinks. I am not a fan of hot weather – especially summer weather in spring. And yes, despite what it says in the sales papers, it’s still spring for another three weeks. The Weather Channel has offered…
Some of the best ideas are the most simple. This dawned on me while chatting with a fellow tax pro at a recent networking event (okay, it was a cocktail party, same thing). The two of us spent a few minutes talking about tax fraud and the child tax credit (yes, that’s what tax professionals…
With apologies to Norma Desmond: The IRS is big. It’s the offices that got small. The IRS has announced that it is making significant reductions in office space in an effort to cut costs over the next two years. The plan is to close 43 smaller offices and reduce space in larger facilities. The closures,…
Hewlett Packard CEO Meg Whitman sounded pretty chipper this week about the future of the company. She spoke effusively about how well things were going. And she attempted to skim right over her really, really big news: HP is laying off about 8% of its workforce, or 27,000 people (about half the population of Greenland)….
And you thought doing your own taxes was hard? More than half of Americans (52%) believe it is easier to figure out their taxes than to figure out what they should and shouldn’t eat to be healthier. No, I didn’t make that up. It’s the result of the 2012 Food & Health Survey: Consumer Attitudes…
The IRS has announced that as of May 21, 2012, it will issue only one employer identification number (EIN) per responsible party each day. The limitation applies to all requests online, by phone, fax, or mail. No idea what this is about, folks, but I have to think it’s related to some kind of effort…
Taxpayer asks: I’m confused by part of the notice I got from the IRS about my 2010 taxes. The first part was clear – I apparently never got a tax form for some interest so didn’t declare it, and I have no quarrels about paying the tax plus penalty on that. However, the second part…
On the afternoon of October 24, 2011, Hillsborough County (Tampa, FL) sheriff’s deputies responded to a report of shots fired between two housing duplexes. They found Michael Massaline on the ground; Massaline later died at the hospital from his injuries. He had been shot twice in the upper body. Two weeks later, deputies announced the…