I kid you not. The Chicago Tribune reports the following:"On March 17, there will be a "Battlestar" retrospective at the U.N. in New York and a panel discussion of how the show examined issues such as "human rights, children and armed conflict, terrorism, human rights and reconciliation and dialogue...

That was the Dow Jones headline today (Wednesday) that confirms a Capitol Hill rumor we revealed to you last week. The word is that powerful U.S. Senate Finance Committee chairman, Senator Max Baucus (D-Mont), (left) has all but rejected the radical anti-tax haven legislation introduced last week b...

First-time home buyers can get a tax credit of up to $8,000 thanks to the stimulus bill Obama signed back in February. You qualify if you bought between April 9, 2008, and November 30, 2009. To get the credit, use IRS Form 5405, "First-Time Homebuyer Credit." Since house prices are going down, the c...

Filed under: Bad news, Financial Crisis Early this morning, Swiss bank UBS (NYSE: UBS) announced that it lost $1.02 billion more than it earlier reported -- thanks to a recent settlement with U.S. authorities. A write-down of assets transferred to the Swiss National Bank also contributed to the wide...

John Klotsche (Caplin & Drysdale, Washington, D.C.) has published Jousting With the Tax Man: An Extreme Makeover, IRS Edition, 122 Tax Notes 1241 (Mar. 9, 2009): The author takes a critical look at the IRS administrative dispute resolution system and......

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Two things that many in the financial communications probably didn’t expect to see together in the same sentence anytime soon: IR and Twitter. On Friday, eBay announced on its blog, eBay Ink, that after three quarters of reporting its quarterly earnings via blog and covering the earnings calls...

Never mind the trillions of dollars the federal government sucks out of the economy every year (but still not enough to pay for Obama's ambitions).  There are billions of dollars spent just complying with the tax code and billions of hours expended preparing to pay taxes.  Steve Forbes of Forbes M...

"I have not become the King’s First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire." Winston Churchill’s famous statement in November 1942, just as the tide of the Second World War was beginning to turn towards victory, pugnaciously affirmed that great British leader's l...

Our next tax trivia question is: Under current US tax law, a report must be filed if a taxpayer has operations in or related to a country that is on Treasury’s list of countries that require participation in international boycotts. For the last few years (according to available data), which countr...