What movies, music, and celebrity headlines can teach us about taxes — Taxgirl’s take on tax in pop culture and the news.
I am not a car person. I never have been. My first car was my parents’ old Buick, I now drive a practical but boring Honda. I’ve never been to the Philadelphia Car Show. And I’d rather have a root canal than go to a car dealer. Despite this, I managed to raise a car…
Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, is finally saying “Cheerio” to his friends across the pond. The American-born Brit (he’s a New Yorker by birth) has announced that he will give up his American citizenship as part of his “commitment to Britain.” The announcement came on the heels of a six-day trade show in the…
New England Patriots’ cornerback Malcolm Butler might have snagged that Russell Wilson interception that lead to the Patriots’ win at Super Bowl XLIX but quarterback Tom Brady might have made the biggest catch of all: a tax break. Brady was named MVP of Super Bowl XLIX by a media panel and fan vote on nfl.com/MVP, earning…
Real Housewives of New Jersey star Teresa Giudice turned herself in to the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut, early this morning to begin serving a 15-month sentence for bankruptcy fraud. Teresa was sentenced to 15 months in prison by a federal judge for her role in the Giudices’ financial and tax fraud cases. Her…
Earlier this week, a video of a police officer responding to a call in Tarrant, Alabama, went viral but not for the reasons you might expect. Officer William Stacy, was dispatched to the Dollar General in Tarrant after a woman, identified as Helen Johnson, was caught trying to steal five eggs from the store. The…
Earlier today, Scott Stapp who fronted the band “Creed” in its heyday, posted a bizarre video on his Facebook page claiming that he is now penniless and living in a Holiday Inn. Denouncing claims that he might be on drugs, Stapp places the blame for his predicament on a number of others, including the IRS, who he says froze his accounts on a number of occasions.
Apple and Facebook have fired the latest round in the “perk wars” – efforts to woo and keep talent in the tech sector. Not content with fancy meals, tech companies are offering female employees the opportunity to freeze their eggs. As perks keep expanding, what are the tax consequences to those employees?
After a judge handed down jail sentences for them both, Teresa and Joe Giudice sat down with Bravo’s Andy Cohen on What Watch Happens Live to talk about what comes next. Teresa claimed, during the interview, that she had no idea that jail was a real possibility. But does her statement make sense?
It’s sentencing day for Teresa and Giuseppe “Joe” Giudice, stars of reality television’s “Real Housewives of New Jersey” – and the result is clearly not what they were hoping for.
Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino knows how quickly life can change. On December 3, 2009, more than a million viewers tuned into MTV to watch Sorrentino and seven other cast members spend a summer at the Jersey Shore in Seaside Heights, New Jersey. A half year later, nearly five million viewers watched the premiere of the…
