Eva Rosenberg is the Internet’s TaxMama®. She answers tax questions and provides a free daily TaxQuips podcast, a weekly Ask TaxMama® ezine, and a wealth of resources to help folks like you deal with your personal and business tax issues at TaxMama.com. In addition to this Equifax blog, Eva is a syndicated national columnist, writing for Dow Jones’ MarketWatch.com tax resource. She teaches tax law and representation to tax professionals at TaxMama’s IRS Exam Review Courses, www.IRSExams.com . A popular speaker at tax workshops for Internet businesses, organizations, and tax professionals, Eva shows you the fun side of taxes and the IRS, while saving you buckets of money. If TaxMama® doesn’t know the loopholes, who does? TaxMama® is a favorite guest of radio show hosts around the country, because she’s usually got an interesting and helpful twist on tax laws and strategies¬and what a voice! Eva holds a BA in accounting, an MBA in international business and is an Enrolled Agent, meaning she is authorized to represent taxpayers before the Internal Revenue Service. Eva has well over 20 years’ experience solving taxpayers’ problems, doing tax returns, helping businesses, and teaching both tax pros and the public about taxes.
Tax Schemes and Tax Turkeys: Stay Away from Too-Good-to-Be-True Tax Advice Several years ago, an attorney asked me to handle an IRS audit of a trust for one of his clients. His explanation of the trust was confusing at first (and I’m a tax professional!),…
Winner! Winner! Winner!: Tax Implications of Winning Lotteries and Game Show Prizes Someone just won $30 million in the California SuperLotto Plus. It wasn’t me. Doesn’t it burn you up when you look up your numbers and someone else has won? Playing the lottery isn’t…
New Tax Laws for 2011 Over the last decade, dozens of tax acts have been passed, filled with hundreds of changes to the tax law. But this year alone, there have been nearly a dozen new tax acts. Ironically, nearly all of the new laws…
Open-Enrollment and FSAs: A Bonanza of Tax Advantages November is here, that magical time when my husband’s employer has open enrollment, when employees can register for or make changes to their benefits. Working for one of the biggest school districts in the country affords him…
Are You Optimizing Your Retirement Contributions? We all know two facts of old age: Social Security won’t be able to support us when we retire. We will be living longer. What will you do to ensure your retirement is financially secure? Let’s start with a…
Small-Business Owners: Here Are 9 Ways to Update Your Bookkeeping Skills Recently, a group of enrolled agents (EAs) discussed the most lucrative areas of billing in our tax practices. Do you want to know the one area guaranteed to generate a solid stream of fees…