A look back at tax law, IRS history, and the stories behind how we got the tax system we have today.
So it’s not exactly President’s Day, but I have a few more quotes up my sleeve. Guess which President said: #3: Let me tell you my thoughts about tax relief. When your economy is kind of ooching along, it’s important to let people have more of their own money.
Continuing my President’s Day fun, here’s your second presidential tax quote: #2: Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery. So who said it? Guesses?
Earlier this morning (or late last night, depending on your point of view), I spent a few hours tooling through some presidential quotes to match up with our business channel blogs. You can read the results here. All of that said, I thought it would be fun to modify that a bit for taxgirl.com. So…
I’ll be frank. I don’t always love being a lawyer. When I was a little girl, I used to watch Perry Mason with my grandfather on TBS. That constituted my entire legal experience before entering law school. And it was flawed. You see, on TV, none of the lawyers lied to Perry Mason over the…
I returned from vacation today to find one red tomato on my plants in the garden. One. I am hopeful that this means that my neighbors took advantage of my email urging them to pick the ripe ones while I was gone… I’d like to think that as opposed to the alternative, which is that…
Okay, so nobody ever said that at the Boston Tea Party. But you get the point. It’s the Fourth of July here in the USA – our Independence Day – and I thought it was worth taking a moment to remember why we celebrate. That’s right. Cause it’s all about tax. In the late 18th…
Nothing says “pay your taxes” like a little animated government propaganda… This is a really interesting collaboration from the WW2 era between the US government and Disney to promote paying your taxes. My favorite part is the end where the announcer reminds us that “taxes will defeat the axis.” To put it in context, apparently…
My real anniversary, that is, not a blog anniversary. I’ve been married for six years. And the notion of my anniversary got me to thinking. You know, about marriage and what drives people to marry and to divorce. It should come as no surprise to anyone in the modern world that finances are often cited…