3 hours ago by Rog T

What a week it has been. On Monday we had the shop owners of Finchley holding a protest against Barnet Council's parking policies. The parkimng fiasco, overseen by Barnet and Camden GLA superemo Brian Coleman (who is up for re-election for his £50K a year part time job in May - hint, hint) has not o ...

7 hours ago by Bill Bonner

Get out your chopsticks! Brush up on your sushi! Learn to read backwards and upside down! Yes...we're going to Japan! The gist of the Japanese situation is this: The bubble burst in 1990. But rather than let their big businesses go belly up, the Japanese used every trick in the book. Counter- cyclic ...

8 hours ago by ajohnstone

The well-off could be given tax breaks for hiring cleaners and cooks to help with household chores, under a scheme to be considered by ministers. The idea would be modelled on a operating in Sweden and Finland. Specific services eligible for the tax breaks under the Swedish model include cooking, cl ...

9 hours ago by State of Thought

Back in January and February of 2011, I wrote a couple posts about the lack of evidence for the right-wing assertion that cutting top marginal tax rates would somehow help our job growth. (See " Tax Rates and GDP Growth" and " Chained to Real: Tax Rates, Inflation-adjusted GDP Measures, and the Diff ...

11 hours ago by Kelly Phillips Erb

Credit Card (Photo credit: 401K) That collective sigh of relief that you just heard? It was an exhale from the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA), the trade association of the world’s largest and most innovative retail companies, who received guidance from the IRS advising that reporting req ...

12 hours ago by Yuri Babich

Счастливые обладатели гринкард, как известно, налоги платят, а избирать не могут даже мэра. Непорядок получается

13 hours ago by writerJames

– Corporate tax rates are at a low, their profits are at a high, and the gap between the pay CEOs claim for themselves and what they let the workers share is growing ever wider. – Satan is much more powerful than God. Or, God is evil. One or t’other, Christians. – Plainclothes police officer is spot ...

15 hours ago by Kelly Phillips Erb

Tax (Photo credit: 401K) Taxpayer asks: I made 599 from one employer and 150 from another employer. Do I have to claim these amounts as income since they are below the $600 threshold? taxgirl says: Yes. Income is income, no matter the amount. The reason that this gets confusing for individual taxpay ...

15 hours ago by John Hitchcock

I have seen multiple cases of Mitt Romney supporters acting very Alinskyite (read Democrat) in their attempts to demonize the strong opposition to Romney. It’s because Romney is a Mormon, they say, (examples can be found in Hot Air comment threads) completely ignoring Romney’s history and actual act ...

16 hours ago by ldelmonte

Even though each individual tax return is different, some tax rules affect every person who may have to file a federal income tax return. These rules include dependents and exemptions. The IRS has six important facts about dependents and exemptions that will help you file your 2011 tax return. 1. Ex ...