Things just keep getting worse for the Internal Revenue Service. Last week, a House Appropriations subcommittee proposed to slash the tax agency’s budget by nearly 25% for the next fiscal year. The cuts would bring the agency’s budget to the lowest level in more than ten years. The budget, which Chairman Hal Rogers (R-KY) has…
The Internal Revenue Service has issued a reminder that Boston area taxpayers and others affected by the Boston Marathon bombings have until Monday, July 15, 2013, to file their individual 2012 federal income tax returns and make any payments due. The relief, which was announced just days after the tragedy, applies to all individual taxpayers…
Every parent believes that their little darling is an artistic genius – but most of us settle for putting up a couple of paintings and drawings on the fridge door. That isn’t the case for Michelle and Jon Heinemann who felt that they could put a price on their child’s artwork. The exact price of…
Remember those pesky IRS bonuses? Last month, despite a directive from the Obama administration for agencies to cancel discretionary bonuses because of automatic spending cuts, the Internal Revenue Service appeared to be moving ahead with plans to distribute $70 million in employee bonuses. Now, that’s changing. Danny Werfel, who is now serving as the Acting…
The rains and extreme weather continues to pound parts of the country this week. Earlier, I posted about taking steps to protect your personal documents and financial records in the event of a weather-related disaster. But what about your business? When it comes to business, Scan, scan, scan. Businesses deal with so much paper. Scanning…
In my first real job as an attorney, I made a huge mistake: I assumed I would have some time off. I had so much faith, in fact, that I made arrangements to fly home to visit my parents on Christmas Eve. But our office didn’t close on Christmas Eve. And the people in my…
Greg Roseman, a Deputy Director at the Internal Revenue Service, didn’t make any friends on the Hill last month when he refused to testify at a House Oversight Committee hearing. It was the second time in recent memory that an IRS employee had invoked a Fifth Amendment right not to testify: Roseman follows hot on…
I’ve spent much of this week de-icking my house. I’ve bailed water out of my basement, wiped mildew off of furniture, and emptied the dehumidifier more times than I care to count. I’m hardly alone: it’s been a wet one on the east coast. Heavy rains have been reported this summer from Maine to Florida….
Today, kids will decorate wagons with streamers and drag them down small-town streets while big marching bands play John Philip Sousa tunes. There will be floats and beauty queens with big smiles (and even bigger hair). Smells from cookouts and barbecues will fill neighborhoods as folks fire up the grill to make hotdogs, hamburgers, and…
The Internal Revenue Service will shutter its doors for the third time this summer as part of a series of furlough days. The next day for closure is coming up quickly: Friday, July 5, 2013. The furloughs are a reaction to the current budget situation, which includes the sequester. On furlough days, the IRS will…
