With unemployment numbers soaring, people who lost their jobs last year might have a lot of questions about how that will impact their tax return. ...more

February 27, 2009

SEBRING — The regular annual rush to file tax returns starts this week and professional tax preparers are sharpening pencils and spending more time at the keyboard. When most W-2s hit mailboxes, it sparks a surge of taxpayers filing for an earlier refund. Employers are required to mail or make tax information available by Jan. 31. ...more

February 1, 2008

If you get a pay envelope, Uncle Sam's about to put a little something extra in it. Then he wants you to go out and spend, spend, spend. ...more

January 25, 2008

There's at least one advantage to not being a millionaire: less chance of being audited by the Internal Revenue Service. ...more

January 18, 2008

John Edwards bought himself a Senate seat with the proceeds of a $25 million lawsuit and has been running for president ever since. ...more

January 11, 2008

More than 3 million people will have to wait until February to get their tax refunds because of Congress' late fix to the alternative minimum tax, the IRS said Thursday. ...more

December 28, 2007

If you've been listening to Mike Huckabee or John Edwards on the presidential trail, you may have heard that the U.S. is becoming a nation of rising inequality and shrinking opportunity. We'd refer those campaigns to a new study of income mobility by the Treasury Department that exposes those claims as so much populist hokum. ...more

November 15, 2007