Organize Your Paperwork Before Filing Taxes Mounds and mounds of papers and files are all over my desk, overflowing to the cabinet behind me, onto the couch, and taking over the floor, with even more boxes streaming into the hallway. The piles are multiplying—they’re spreading…
Tara Holloway, the IRS Special Agent in Diane Kelly’s book, Death, Taxes, and a French Manicure, fantasized about what to do with her tax refund. She noted that the $400 she was due was “enough to pay for the bikini I’d ordered and then some….
“I got my tax refund before you did!” Do you have friends that say that to you? Isn’t it annoying? By now, a lot of your friends have probably already gotten their refunds or have finished filing their taxes. But there are still others dragging…
Tax return filing season lasts for just over 9 months for individuals and around 8 months for partnerships and corporations. You would think that would be more than enough time to gather last year’s data or do last year’s books and start filing taxes. But…
You’re working on filing taxes, and you’ve got a refund due to you. But you’re missing one or two key W-2s, and they just don’t seem to be coming. Are you feeling antsy? One of the most common—and frantic—questions asked of TaxMama at this time…
As you may have noticed, the country is facing budget crunches on all sides. The feds are billions of dollars in the hole, while states are cutting jobs, holding up refunds, and struggling to stay solvent. No one wants to raise taxes, but the money…