Summer is nearly here! Though the official start of summer doesn’t happen until June 20th this year, the unofficial start of summer starts this Memorial Day weekend. Everybody loves summer! OK, maybe not ice fishermen but the other 99.99 percent [...]
Smart Ways To Spend Your Tax Refund If you’re reading this then know that you are reading the fourth draft of my letter to you. Normally I don’t revise and edit my work that much, but today has been truly [...]
March 21, 2012
Easy Street
How to Avoid an Audit 62. That’s the number of days you and I have left to file our taxes. The clock is tick, tick, ticking away towards the filing deadline. I have always felt the need to be extra [...]
February 15, 2012
Easy Street
There isn’t much the U.S. government doesn’t tax. They want their cut of every bit of income you make. Your salary, wages, commissions, tips, interest on savings, dividends are all considered taxable income. Even if you do your civic duty [...]
February 8, 2012
Easy Street
Think Outside the Box to Build Wealth with Your IRA I don’t know about you but I hate restrictions. I don’t like it when banks restrict the number of transactions I can make a month without a financial penalty. I [...]
August 31, 2011
Easy Street
Being a writer is great. I get to work at whatever location I choose (my home, the local coffee shop, the beach), wear whatever clothes I want (usually its yoga pants and a tank top), be my own boss (no [...]
March 9, 2011
Easy Street
So one of the most common issues readers email me about is credit cards. I lovingly refer to credit cards as “frenemies.” They disguise themselves as friendly faces with their cash back, rewards points, airlines miles and low interest rates. [...]
February 16, 2011
Easy Street
There is a disturbing trend developing. As the US Dollar craters against so many currencies around the world, and as US economic, fiscal and monetary policy has completely unclear consequences; the US Government is embarking on a stronger and stronger [...]
November 15, 2010
Freedom by Friday
Secret IRS Code 72 (t): Take Advantage of an IRS Loophole that lets you take money out of your IRA before age 59 ½ The baby boomers are coming! Next year, the first baby boomers will turn 65 and officially [...]
October 6, 2010
Easy Street
Give Me Shelter What do Helio Castroneves, Joe Francis, Nicholas Cage and Annie Liebovitz have in common? All of them had run-ins with the IRS last year for failing to pay the correct amount of taxes. Out of all of [...]
September 15, 2010
Easy Street