After Ben’s appearance on Nightline on Friday, our email box was inundated with tips and complaints, words of support and pleas for help from hundreds of consumerists, newly brought to the fold. We also got many confused emails from people calling us “Vinnie” and some astonishing rants from exactly the sort of bleary-eyed crazies who sit around at midnight, typing up emails to guys they just saw on the telly.
IRS
The Taxman Is Really, Really, Wet
By 7.12.06
Boon for those who filed their returns in used lunch sacks?
BREAKING: IRS Archive Control Sold to Lowest Bidder
By 6.1.06
An anonymous tipster writes that the IRS lost a bid yesterday and its archives will now be controlled by a company in Florida.
Spanish-American War Telephone Tax Revoked
By 5.25.06
You’ll never ever ever get that cool G refund from the telephone company, but here’s one refund you can count on: an obsolete long-distance tax that telephone customers have been paying for 108 years has finally been revoked by the US Treasury.
H&R Block Snuffs Tax Efficiency
By 5.23.06
If your mind has folded in on itself like a Chinese Puzzle Box trying to grok the convolution of this year’s tax forms, we have good news: the IRS bureaucracy wants to make the process as efficient as possible. Unfortunately, the guys you pay to do your taxes don’t… and they’ve successfully lobbied to continue their monopoly on their obtuse arbitration of your income.
IRS Is Really A Nice Guy, After All
By 5.22.06
Next time the IRS bangs on your door asking you for your tax form, just tell ’em your dog ate it. Your dog named TurboTax.
H&R Block Sells User’s Info to Spammers?
By 4.26.06
Cior used H&R Block’s online service on April 9th to do her taxes and everything went just hunky-dory, except for one, small, dangling modifer:
Georgian IRS Fat Cats Want Slice of Swedish Property Pie
By 4.21.06
We’re still sorting our way through all of the nightmare tax stories we solicited from you guys. Here’s one we pulled out about the pains of paying taxes internationally that I personally sympathize with — did you know the US government expects you to pay taxes for five years after emigration on your foreign, also-taxed income?
Free Credit Report Nightmare Yields New ‘Screw Off!’ Champ!
By 4.20.06
We think we have a new favorite “go screw” line from a company: We understand that the privacy and security of your information is important to you; therefore we cannot provide a specific reason as to why we cannot fulfill your request. That just punches a steaming hand, Fist of the North Star style, right through the sternum of our old fave, We appreciate your concerns.
The One H&R Block That Doesn’t Suck
By 4.19.06
Yes, Virginia, there is one good H&R Block store out there.
H&R Block Bollocks
By 4.18.06
H&R Block sucks bricks. They suckle upon cinder blocks so hard that even though we’ve never actually transacted there, but after hearing story upon story of their ineptitude, we just had to give their store the finger as we drove by this weekend.
Find a Post Office To Mail Your Taxes
By 4.18.06
You”ve got until Tuesday, April 18th to file your taxes, if you live in Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Vermont, or the District of Columbia. Everyone else, your taxes were due yesterday.
HOWTO: Extend Your Tax Deadline
By 4.14.06
You can’t dodge the tax reaper but you can at least cast a field from the fourth dimension around his shoes. As any topologist knows, in the fourth dimension, no knot can stay tied, thereby causing the reaper’s laces to unravel and make him trip and slow down to retie his shoes.
Poll: How You’re Doing Taxes
By 4.14.06
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