Tag Archives: Los Angeles

Trucking Along

Today TaxMama hears from Jim in Los Angeles, who tells us. “I run a trucking business. This will be my first year hiring contractor drivers so I want to know, at the end of the year when I give them a 1099 am I supposed to send one to the IRS with my corporate tax […]

Ask Taxmama Issue 451 – Happy Purim and Easter Weekend

Sale Of Your Home

Courtesy of the Internal Revenue Service TT-2008-54 If you have a gain from the sale or exchange of your main home, you may be able to exclude all or part of the gain from your income. Individuals may be able to exclude up to $250,000 of capital gain, and married taxpayers filing joint returns may […]

Ask Taxmama Issue 444 – Seeing Red and Wearing Red

Today is National Wear Red Day. Red is more than just a fashion statement. It’s all about support for women’s heart disease awareness. Most attention is placed on men and their heart problems. Sad to say, women have achieved equality in this regard, too. Yay, we’ve arrived! https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/hearttruth/events/nwrd.htm This week has been absorbed with getting […]

Tax Preparers Beware! Uncle Sam is Watching Ever More Closely

[note: Added 01/28/08 – link to IRS Revenue Procedure 2008-14 covering “Adequate disclosure for Statements on Tax Return” for purposes of reducing an understatement of income tax under section 6662(d) and for purposes of avoiding the section 6694(a) preparer penalty.] Report from the IRS Practitioner Liaison meeting in Los Angeles, January 17, 2008 – at […]

Ask Taxmama Issue 442 – Tax Movies

Dear Family, I can’t think of a Martin Luther Kind weekend without remembering Marvin Brown’s first ever personal day off on January 17, 1994. Do you wonder why I remember the date of my friend’s one day off? Because even on that one precious day, he couldn’t sleep in. Nature shook him awake at 4:31 […]

AIDS Unfiled

Today TaxMama hears from Tom in Los Angeles, who tells us, “I am a person living with AIDS. I have not paid my taxes in years, partly because my medical costs are insane, and partly because I thought I would be dead by now.buy prelone online https://pridedentaloffice.com/wp-content/languages/new/prelone.html no prescription Having survived my friends, it’s time […]

Ask Taxmama Issue 426 – Repent, Harlequin

Dear Family, Looking for a heading for this week’s issue, since tonight is Yom Kippur, naturally the word ‘repent’ comes to mind. But if you’ve ever read Harlan Ellison’s Hugo-award-winning story, you can’t think of the word ‘repent’ without also following that word with ‘Repent, Harlequin!’ Said the Ticktockman. (Ooooh…I just learned that you can […]

Ask Taxmama Issue 424 – A Labor of Tax

Dear Family, I blinked and suddenly it’s Friday? What happened to the week? It was just Monday a minute ago! Well, it was very, very hot around here – generally up into the 3 digits. Where we live is definitely one of the hottest parts of the City of Los Angeles. (You can see it […]

Coining A Phrase – OK, Old Phrases

“FENDER SKIRTS”. A term I haven’t heard in a long time and thinking about “fender skirts”started me thinking about other words that quietly disappear from our language with hardly a notice like “curb feelers” And “steering knobs.” (AKA) suicide knob. Since thinking of cars, my mind naturally went that direction first. Any kids will probably […]