Taxes

I have a weird habit of remembering what I paid for things. Yes, I am the person that can tell you the approximate date I bought an item and how much I paid for it. This is particularly the case if I got something for a bargain. It took a while to figure out that

Today was the first day of school for my son. His schedule was packed with math, foreign languages, English, science—but not economics or financial literacy. Many schools don’t offer those kinds of classes. Just about half of states require either a personal finance or economics course to graduate high school, which might explain why, as

Google, Meta, and several tax prep companies, including H&R Block and TaxAct, are fielding an escalating number of U.S. lawsuits alleging that they allowed tracking pixels to unlawfully collect taxpayers’ confidential information as they filed their federal income tax returns online. The claims, which were first reported in November 2022 by investigative news outlet The

The IRS is again pushing off a start date for new legislation by introducing a transition period. Earlier, the IRS declared a one-year delay in the new reporting requirement for Forms 1099-K. The IRS has now announced an administrative transition period for the new catch-up contribution requirements under the SECURE 2.0 Act. Background SECURE 2.0

Tongues were wagging this morning after a Zillow update reportedly indicated that former President Donald J. Trump sold Mar-a-Lago for $422 million. As of this writing, the listing on Zillow’s website shows that a 5,061-square-foot residence at 1100 S. Ocean Boulevard in Palm Beach, Florida, was sold on Friday, August 4, 2023. According to the