What the heck is a 1099-K? It’s a new tattletale form designed to help the IRS know more about your income sources when you’re filing taxes. Its targets are the many people who run online businesses, sell at swap meets, or have home-based businesses but…
Have you noticed that women’s sizes in catalogs now go up to 6X? Twenty years ago, you were lucky to find clothing in size 1X. January is when we look in the mirror and resolve to be smaller by the end of the year. It’s…
When my husband and I got married, we were young, but we were always thinking about saving money. My husband had $25 taken out of every paycheck for his employer to buy him savings bonds. (Back then, $25 was about 15 percent of our rent.)…
It’s a fresh, clean new year. We indulged ourselves last month and ended the year with a blast. Now, it’s time to come back down to earth and face financial reality. Luckily, I have some tax tips you might find helpful as you try to…
My clients have survived the Malibu fires, the subsequent mudslides and floods, the Rodney King riots, and several earthquakes—and that’s just here in California. Others have experienced Hurricane Katrina and other equally devastating storms and floods. Why start out a blog about organizing paperwork by…
How many times have you read articles about saving money on your taxes at the last minute? Are you bored out of your mind by repeatedly reading about the same things? Well, as it happens, the same things tend to work and make sense for…