One of the things that is weird about my Small Town is that we seem to be a sort of Jimmy Stewart version of America. History plays out across our canvas as if we're all living a Forest Gump life. Last night, for example, I met the current Nobel Peace Prize recipient, a famous singer, and my former congressman at an event. During the course of the ( Read more... )

I'm not in love with 529 plans. I think they are really fabulous in a few settings, but most of the time they'd be my third or fourth choice for ways to save for college ( Read more... )

Sometimes I hear people talking about how nice it would be to have a flat tax. Sometimes they think I am not in favor of it because I would lose all my clients. LOL, no ( Read more... )

Draft of letter to the editor - first pass (call it morning pages ( Read more... )

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-20/egg-donor-irs-challenge-offers-future-sperm-tax-certainty.htmlRead more... )

A few years ago there was an $8,000 "New Home Buyer" credit available to people on their tax returns if they'd bought a house in the prior year ( Read more... )

Oh my God. The more I learn about the actual implementation of the Affordable Care Act, the more my jaw drops. I have already spent a bunch of time analyzing how the massive subsidies will play out (and the associated incentives to make sure your income stays low enough to qualify for those same subsidies) but today I went to the other end, how the ( Read more... )

This wasn't called "the Bush era tax cuts expiring cliff".  That's because that was only one of the things hitting all at once.  It got the most attention, I think, but what made it a "cliff" was that there were so MANY fiscal problems all piling up into one big stumbling block ( Read more... )

This is the question I put to both candidates this morning.  We'll see what, if any answer I get.  I expect the answer will come in the form of a campaign request for money, but I hold out hope.  It's a small state.  My name is respectable.  Maybe they'll answer me ( Read more... )

I'm too beat and too dumb to work on someone else's return tonight, so I put myself on extension.  Someone else asked about this, so I'm going to tell you all how to safely do an extension ( Read more... )