Dear Family, Happy Summer! Yes, despite the fact that many of us in sunny climes start to celebrate summer on Memorial Day weekend, the planet didn’t recognize summer until this week. Finally, this weekend, my mother’s 90th birthday party! I saw the album the girls put together. Lots of wonderful pictures! Lots. But, I think […]
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Courtesy of the Internal Revenue Service [TaxMama Note: This is an opportunity for you to see some of the ways IRS responds to requests to fix or improve things. I say, just some of the ways, because I know of many more fixes IRS has implemented in the last several months. As, they say, it […]
Courtesy of the Internal Revenue Service IRS YouTube Videos Preparing for Disasters: English | Spanish | ASL How to Request a Copy of Your Tax Return: English | Spanish | ASL Podcast – Disaster Assistance: English | Spanish WASHINGTON — With the early start of this year’s hurricane season, the Internal Revenue Service encourages individuals […]
Green Garden Grass snakes can be dangerous. Yes, grass snakes — not rattlesnakes. A couple in Sweetwater, Texas had a lot of potted plants, and during a recent cold spell, the wife was bringing a lot of them indoors to protect them from a possible freeze. It turned out that a little green garden grass […]
Dear Family, Happy Fathers’ Day weekend! If you still have your dad, I envy you. Wish I had mine. Yes, I really was Daddy’s little girl. I thought he walked on water, could do no wrong, and all those silly myths little girls tend to believe. No matter what anyone else says, I’m sticking with […]
Courtesy of the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) did not close any cases in Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 involving abuse or harassment of taxpayers by IRS employees while they attempted to collect taxes, concludes a report publicly released today by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration […]
Courtesy of the Internal Revenue Service Employers that hired unemployed veterans during late 2011 and early 2012 had an expanded period to request the required certification for claiming the expanded Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC). That expanded period ends on Tuesday, June 19. The IRS is reminding employers that for eligible veterans hired on or […]
The European Commission was considering an agreement whereby English will become the official language of the EU rather than German, which was the alternative possibility.* As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty’s Government has conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement, and has accepted a 5 year phase-in plan that would be known […]
Dear Family, Do you ever have those days when you just can’t seem to get started? Everything is a distraction. Everywhere you look is something you’d like to finish –so you start, then get interrupted to finish the next thing? I rarely ever have those days. But if they are going to happen, Fridays are […]
Courtesy of the Internal Revenue Service WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service today announced that the spring 2012 issue of the Statistics of Income Bulletin is available to the general public. This issue features information on high-income individual income tax returns filed for tax year 2009.
Andy Rooney says, “As I grow in age, I value older women most of all. Here are just a few reasons why.” An older woman will never wake you in the middle of the night to ask, “What are you thinking?” She doesn’t care what you think. An older woman knows herself well enough to […]
+ + Dear Family, Today’s edition wants to convey a certain mood and feeling. This morning I started by working on the ItsAWHAMThing article about writing off summertime parties. The word ‘summertime’ brought to mind the music from Porgy and Bess. That mood, that sound, that feeling has stayed with me. (You’ll get to […]