Tag: taxes

When it comes to the IRS, out of sight is not out of mind.

The finance minister will be me and only me, and I will cut everyone’s budget by 100% and return all the money to the taxpayers who it was stolen from.

An interview with Darlene Hart, chairwoman of the U.S. Tax & Financial Services Group.

An interview with Jackie Bugnion of American Citizens Abroad.

An interview with Chris Pavone, author of The Expats.

What infrastructure achievement has the shovel-ready administration managed to achieve?

An interview with tax attorney Dave Wolf.

An interview with Ron Zalben, about the FBAR and FATCA tax forms and why it's so important to file them.

Lapid's election success is a reflection of the widespread view among Israelis that external threats do not mean that the country's house should not be put in better order.

Police are preparing for potentially violent riots against Michael Ben-Ari and his supporters.

Prohibition is long gone but the consequences of it are still with us today.

What Obama means by 'saving' the Middle Class is turning them into welfare clients.

An interview with Anne Hornung-Soukup, finance director of American Citzens Abroad.

Last week, Miami Beach's Jewish elderly population's favorite presidential candidate Pat Buchanan endorsed Hagel’s nomination.

Fayyad wants Palestinians to boycott Israel, but at the same time is unable to provide them with better alternatives.

The record Powerball lottery - $550 million ($360.2 million as a cash option before taxes) - goes to numbers...

Galei Tzahal reports that despite Israeli threats to withhold money if the Palestinian Authority doesn't stop its UN bid for statehood, Israel transferred on Tuesday NIS...

If only my city were to treat me with the same courtesy they accorded Kaddafi.

Government officials have proposed austerity measures, weatherman calling for food riots with a chance of mayhem.

I saw President Obama still finding it difficult to sound cool and calculated without his trusted teleprompter.

Being forced to pay taxes does not make us more virtuous people. If it did, our founding fathers would have thanked George III for his coercion.

U.S. taxpayers traveling to the United States with unpaid U.S. tax assessments can be detained at the border, questioned, and flagged for follow-up enforcement. If a taxpayer has an unpaid tax liability and is subject to a resulting Notice of Federal Tax Lien, the IRS may submit identifying taxpayer information to the Treasury Enforcement Communications System (TECS), a database maintained by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

There’s no such thing as a perfect investment.

There are few choices as personal and important as the educational environment in which our children are immersed for most of their waking hours. Yet in the United States, unless parents want to risk bankruptcy just to afford tuition, they are given no choice.

Last week I published a letter from a thirty-eight year old single woman who lamented that despite her having become a ba’alas teshuvah, forsaking her secular life, committing to Torah and mitzvos, going to rabbis, receiving berachot – in short, doing all the “right” things – she has failed to find her bashert, her soul mate. She wondered where G-d was and what all her sacrifices were all about. She was angry at G-d and regarded all her efforts as having been for naught. “My joy in Judaism has disappeared,” she wrote. The following is my response.

The price of gas was lowered overnight Sunday by 2.15%, making the maximum price of self-serve 95-octane gasoline 16 agorot per liter less - NIS 7.27.

Chief Justice John Roberts joined the Democrat-appointed justices to rule 5-4 that Congress has the power to impose the healthcare mandate under its power to levy taxes.

For many people, especially younger ones, ideas about which government rules and “services” we can happily do without will be new and startling. But it is possible to slip the surly bonds of the Regulated Man construct and envision a better future. Wisconsin has taken an important step toward that future. Walker’s Wisconsin is what “Forward” looks like.

Israel will tax your U.S. municipal bonds, many of which are tax exempt.

Austerity policies, which consist mainly of extra taxes, not only keep the European governments from finding long-term solutions to their overspending, while worsening the economic situation; they also make these government increasingly unpopular. Almost 40 years after Arthur Laffer drew his famous curve on a napkin, one wonders why European politicians keep closing their eyes to an evident truth instead of putting in place incentives for growth.