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Confused about your workplace benefits options this enrollment season? Your answers to the following eight questions could help you pick the best benefits, some of which also offer tax savings, for you
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Happy Halloween! Time for ghosts, ghouls and, in many cases, taxable candy treats. Here’s a look at the various, and sometimes scary, ways states (and often other jurisdictions, too) tax different types of confections.
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It’s been a relatively mild hurricane season. But other types of disasters occur nationwide and year-round. When tax and financial documents are damaged or destroyed by a mad Mother Nature, you have to recreate them.
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The tax reform provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act enhanced financial help for families who choose to grow by adopting. It made up to $5,000 of the adoption tax credit refundable. The change
It’s over! With October’s extended filing deadline behind us, it is now time to focus on year-end moves to reduce our 2026 tax bills.
The ol’ blog will be doing that as we head into the last 75 days and
Timing is everything. That’s especially true with taxes and all its deadlines.
It also applies to the Oct. 14 announcement that recent nationwide efforts by the Department of Justice (DoJ), Internal Revenue Service, and IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) resulted in
October is an important month for older Americans.
Medicare enrollment opens tomorrow, Oct. 15.
Today, Oct. 14, Social Security recipients learned that their monthly federal retirement benefits will go up 3.6 percent in 2027. Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments will
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Today is a federal holiday. If you have the day off and have yet to file your extended tax return, use the free time to finish your 1040 that’s due by Oct. 15. And
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A new Government Accountability Office report says that tax fraud likely costs the U.S. Treasury anywhere from $116 billion to $304 billion a year. It has some suggestions as to how the Internal Revenue Service
Reconciling expenses is a challenge for many senior citizens. Some on original Medicare are getting a bit of help this week thanks to an unexpected $90 payment from Uncle Sam. (Photo by SHVETS production).
The first $90 payments
