The IRS will no longer include pitches for high interest refund loans alongside its e-tax filing service.
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Start Thinking About Filing Your 2006 Taxes
By 11.30.06
In this restive spot after Thanksgiving and before Christmas-time madness, why not start getting your taxes together? Blueprint For Financial Prosperity has a roundup of useful tax time articles. — BEN POPKEN
NJ Taxes iTunes Downloads
By 10.4.06
NJ residents, now is a good time to change your iTunes profile to another state.
Oxymoronically, H&R Block Teaches Tax Classes
By 8.11.06
With $174 and 11 weeks, H&R Block will teach you to fuck up tax returns like the pros.
IRS to Cut 50% of Rich People Auditors
By 7.26.06
The federal government is moving towards cutting half of the IRS workers who audit the wealthiest Americans’ returns.
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.
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?
Death, Taxes and CSR’s
By 4.20.06
Reader Matt’s dad recently died. We’re sorry for your loss, Matt. There’s never anything else to say when the life of one we remember as god-like when we were children is ultimately proved as fragile as anyone else’s.
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.
