IRS warns of email tax transcript scam containing malware
The billions of holiday shoppers who head for their electronic devices instead of malls are well aware of the precautions they need to take as they pick perfect gifts from websites. This year, everyone also needs to be on alert for tax crooks who've joined this annual...
Tax Year 2018 Countdown
Tax Year 2018 Countdown It's over! The final 2017 tax year extended filing deadline has passed, unless you get more time because your filing was affected by a natural disasterlike Hurricanes Florence and Michael. For most of us, that means it's time to focus on...
Texas fireworks tax
As a kid in West Texas, when the Fourth of July rolled around my friends and I would head out to the countryside to set off fireworks. When the weather was dry, which it usually was, the threat of a scrub fire ignited by a wayward bottle rocket was very real. Since...
Where to start with California taxes?
The state has given us such things as Proposition 13 that limits property tax increases and set off similar revolutions nationwide, state IOUs in lieu of tax refunds and, of course, the Governator who defeated an erroneous federal tax lien. Yeah, it's easy to poke fun...
2019 income tax rates and brackets adjusted for inflation
It's the most wonderful time of the year. And while, confession time, I have been watching a lot of Hallmark holiday movies, I'm talking today about the overlap of one tax year and the approaching one. As the annual count of days winds down, we taxpayers must pay...
