Biz Buzz • Tax tips Nina Olson: The government's official "national taxpayer advocate" doles out advice. (3/10/03)
Past due: The Internal Revenue Service knows where there is $13 billion in uncollected personal income tax, but its new commissioner says he needs outside help to bring it in. (6/2/03)
Tax credits: With all the talk about tax cuts, an often neglected point is that a growing number of people aren't obligated to pay federal income tax at all. (5/19/03)
Tax scams: April 15, apparently, is not the deadline for nongovernmental fleecing of taxpayers. (5/12/03)
Parsing the data: While finishing up collecting revenue and sending out refunds is the main job, the IRS is also using the latest returns to analyze the habits of taxpayers. (5/5/03)
Cracking down: IRS enforcement is finally waking up. But after years of intimidation by Congress and other critics, it won't be a quick revival. (4/28/03)
Charities: Charity may be its own reward, but your generosity shouldn't give you an annual headache. (4/21/03)
Donations: It's hard to avoid the pitches for donating your aging car to charity: help the needy, snare a big tax deduction, and get rid of your car hassle-free. But it's a bet that may be rigged. (4/14/03)
Refunds: While the majority of taxpayers are getting refunds for part of the tax that was withheld during the year, millions of others are doing even better. (4/7/03)
Retirement: Many dismiss the tax-deductible IRA as not material to lowering their debt to the IRS, but that could mean missing a good thing. (3/31/03)
Children: Figuring Uncle Sam's take on the savings account interest and other investment income of your child is a headache. (3/24/03)
Taxation: The IRS has released an updated rogues' gallery of antitax claims and the legal citations that discredit them. (3/17/03)
Taxpayers: The IRS has issued a new warning about seeking help: Let the taxpayer beware. (3/10/03)
Tax deductions: Thanks to a number of breaks enacted in recent years, the time-honored strategy of hunting for deductions is available to more people. (3/3/03)
Online filing: Beware of tax software firms bearing gifts–in this case, an offer of free online filing of your 2002 return. (2/24/03)
Charity deductions: There's a legislative push this year to enable more people to claim tax deductions for charitable gifts. (2/10/03)
Tax rates: Think federal income tax rates–topping out last year at 38.6 percent–are too high? (2/3/03)
Tax scams: The IRS is offering abusers of offshore accounts a rare chance to come clean. (1/27/03)
Tax breaks: All your income is taxable except for what the government decides not to tax. (1/13/03)
Tax code: It's not just homeowners who are benefiting from the lowest interest rates in four decades. (1/6/03)
Tax simplification: The latest move by the IRS will mean one less tax-return page for some 15 million taxpayers. (12/30/02)
Home economics: Refinanced your home mortgage this year? Tips on how to avoid potential screw-ups on your tax return. (12/9/02)
Homeless refunds: The IRS is looking for more than 96,000 taxpayers for undelivered 2001 tax refund checks. (12/2/02)
Driving for dollars:
Buy a new car for business use, and get a tax break to boot (11/25/02)
Final exam:
The IRS has finished randomly picking 49,000 taxpayers to act as guinea pigs in a new research project. (11/18/02)
