Tax Talk

Golf Course Owners Go for the Green

Golf courses may be some of the most beautiful manmade environments on earth. Millions of Americans actually hate the game itself, but tolerate... Read More

The Rich Are Different

Back in the Gilded Age, an ambitious social climber and noted toady named Ward McAllister coined the phrase "the Four Hundred," named for the number... Read More

Cast Your Ballot

The 2016 presidential election is almost here. Are you excited yet? (Some cynics would say the campaign actually started as long ago as November 7,... Read More

Smile!

Smile! "Bar Rafaeli" sounds like a happening watering hole in a trendy part of Brooklyn — the kind of place where bearded... Read More

Tax Advice for the Grinch

Tax Advice for the Grinch The holiday season is in full swing, and we expect you're on your best behavior to make Santa's nice... Read More

IRS Employees Make the Naughty List

Back in 2002, Steve Epstein, the director of the Pentagon's Standards of Conduct Office, faced a common dilemma among ethics officials: how to keep... Read More

New Tax Collection “Law”

Turn the dial on the Way-Back Machine to the days of the Great Depression. Millions of Americans are jobless, struggling just to eke out a living.... Read More

Uncle Sam, Knowing When to Hold ’em

Last month, millions of fans across America sat down in front of their televisions to watch the Kansas City Royals beat the New York Mets, 4 games to... Read More

Easily Satisfied with the Very Best

Few figures from recent history loom larger than British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, "the Last Lion." He spent "the wilderness years" of the... Read More

Quantum Mechanics (or Something Equally Complicated)

How big a tax bill would you have to pay before it really hurt? Would sending the IRS $10,000 do it? What about $100,000? What about $1 million?... Read More