Tag Archives: Las Vegas

Ask TaxMama Issue 650 – Hot Dog!

 Dear Family, Can you believe it. This is the 650th issue. Ask TaxMama has been running for 12 ½ years. We’ve answered thousands of questions; solved innumerable tax problems; saved people millions of tax dollars over the years – and even improved the federal tax administration system and the tax profession a tiny bit. The […]

Life and Money Changes in One Small Century

The year is 1912 over one hundred years ago. What a difference a century makes! Here are some statistics for the Year 1912:

Ask TaxMama Issue 649 – Happy 13

Dear Family, Happy Friday the 13th! It will be a nice day – I’ll make sure of it. Since, it is my husband’s birthday. So, I’ll be devising delightfully cute ways to torment him. (His personal preference is to hide under the bed on his birthday…so anything I do to get him out from under […]

The Economy Is So Bad That

I got a pre-declined credit card in the mail. Wives are having sex with their husbands because they can’t afford batteries.  Taxpayers don’t have any taxes to pay.

A Trip to the IRS Tax Forums, Page 1

Last week, all my tax staff and I took our annual trip to the IRS Tax Forum. When these forums first started out many years ago, the fee was $25 for three days of education provided by IRS staff and a variety of tax professionals from sponsor associations. It was an amazing value – especially […]

Ask Taxmama Issue 423 – Jest Trucking Along

Dear Family, It’s been a busy and fun week in Las Vegas at the IRS Tax Forum. We must have walked 5 miles a day, just inside the Rio. Learned lots of things. Hope to remember them. I am writing from my hotel room at the Gold Coast, right across the street from the Rio. […]

Ask Taxmama Issue 419 – Sales Tax Holidays

Dear Family, What a wonderful week. After rushing like crazy last week and all last weekend to finish projects and meet deadlines, Monday afternoon I flew off to Las Vegas to meet a man I’d met on the Internet. We had the most wonderful time. It really was like two old friends getting together and […]