What movies, music, and celebrity headlines can teach us about taxes — Taxgirl’s take on tax in pop culture and the news.
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Octuplet mom Nadya Suleman is causing furor this week in California – again. A number of reports appear to confirm that the hospital where the octuplets were born has requested reimbursement from Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program, for the care of premature babies. While no numbers were officially disclosed, experts in the care of premature…
Reed Hastings, the CEO of Netflix, offered an interesting Op-Ed piece in the New York Times this week. Hastings joins the ranks of Ben Stein and Warren Buffet in calling for tax raises for… the ultra rich. Hastings believes that those in the upper classes, like himself, can afford to pay more in taxes –…
In 2006, Crash took home the Academy Award for Best Picture, Reese Witherspoon waltzed off with an Oscar for Best Actress and Philip Seymour Hoffman surprised no one by winning an Oscar for Best Actor. And in the midst of the glitz and glamour, the IRS was quickly working its own magic… taxing the swag….
Gosh, I can think of about a hundred smart comments for this one… A porn star goes to prison? But my mother could be reading. So just the facts. Janine Lindemulder (a/k/a Janine James), a porn star who goes by the clever stage name “Janine”, learned her fate last week stemming from a guilty plea…
Governon Paterson raised quite a stir after he suggested a “fat tax” to raise revenue combat obesity. But that may not be the most controversial local tax measure to make news this December. Rep. Darryl Rouson, a Democrat from St. Petersburg, Florida, has proposed House Bill 99 to add a “surtax of 5 percent” on…
I love the lists in Forbes magazine. You can find a list on almost everything – the best places to live, jobs that are in the most demand, and the most powerful folks in Hollywood. One of the oddest addition to the list is the Forbes Fictional 15, an annual listing of fiction’s richest. Topping…
American Idol third season winner Fantasia Barrino may be losing her home. Well, one of her homes. One of Barrino’s homes, located in Charlotte, NC, and valued at $1.1 million, is going to auction after Barrino failed to pay a third party who covered her property taxes in 2006. According the Charlotte Observer, court documents…
Everyone loves a happy ending, right? And Extreme Makeover, the popular ABC reality television show, always has a happy ending. The thing is, the troubles of those on the show don’t always end once the cameras shut off. Consider Larry and Judy Vardon. The couple have a child who is blind and autistic; they are…
Oh kids, when will you learn that the internet is not your personal playground? There are some rules that you learn pretty early on in the game Words mean something. So, thoughtfulness counts. Naked pictures are forever. Your audience is not limited to your friends – anyone could be reading. Anyone could mean the taxing…