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Time for “The Daily Dividend”… Did Meredith Whitney scare you out of buying or owning a municipal bond when she warned of dozens of impending municipal bond issuer failures?  She definitely...
The burden of property taxes occurs several ways. The first is their cost. Others are relative–what someone pays in relationship to theoretical value of  their homes. Another is the percent a...
Tax authorities find it hard to ferret out how rich people hide their money. The IRS says it has increased its audit of millionaires. The Greeks say that they have begun a program to catch the rich...
Japan and Michigan have little in common except that they are among the largest regions that manufacture cars. Recently, they have begun to share one other thing. Each has become an example of...
Ireland’s new leadership does not believe that either companies that operate within its borders or its citizens should carry the entire cost of pulling the nation out of debt. That supposes that...
Tony Bennett may have left his heart in San Francisco.   Twitter may swipe everything else. Officials in San Francisco last week approved a 6-year exemption from what the San Francisco Chronicle...
Intuit Inc. (NASDAQ: INTU) is among a handful of companies which are close to being entirely dependent upon the business around tax filing season.  The company has quantified what some IRS exposure...
There is a simple, easy way that will help close the $1 trillion-dollar federal deficit: Declare a temporary tax amnesty. Under the 24/7 Wall St.  plan,  individual and business taxpayers who owe...
The future is uncertain. That may always be the case, but getting down to specifics Congress has passed the $858 billion tax cut bill. No one knows what the effects of the legislation will be, and...
Sugary beverages such as soda became public enemy number one for public health activists (known to critics as the food police) in 2010.    That has led to a call to levy special taxes on the...
To make the cut onto the S&P Dividend Aristocrats Index, a company has to have paid a dividend every year for at least 25 consecutive years. The index includes at least 40 stocks and it is...
Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma told the FT that new tax cuts, an extension of Bush programs, will send the capital markets a simple message: America does not care about its deficit. Americans only...
The current Congress does not have much time to do anything before members go home. Some of them will never return. Americans, though, still want Congress  to come up with solutions to the...
Most of the attention paid to the sovereign debt crisis in Europe, currently highlighted by trouble with Ireland, is about sharp cost cuts, higher retirement ages, and new taxes. The collection of...
In what is surely one of the strangest stories to come out of the election,  a Republican member of Congress says that some of her elderly constituents are so worried about their families being...