The Internal Revenue Service is reminding veterans who received disability severance payments after 1991 and claimed it as income that time may be running out to claim their refund. Veterans should take action soon if they received a notice (letters 6060-A and 6060-D) and have not already filed Form 1040-X, Amended [...]
Good news: households including at least one person with a high school diploma or GED can afford the typical mortgage payment in most large metro areas across the U.S., according to a new analysis by Zillow. However, soaring home values have outpaced incomes have made down payments a barrier for [...]
Family, fun, food and fireworks. It's that time of year when many will be celebrating the Fourth of July holiday. All too often, however, celebrations can end with a trip to the hospital if fireworks are mishandled. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission wants to make sure consumers know the [...]
Personal-finance website WalletHub released its latest Credit Card Debt Study, which found that consumers paid off $38 billion of their roughly $1 trillion in credit card debt during the first quarter of 2019. Given that this year’s first-quarter paydown was smaller than last year’s, WalletHub now projects a $70 billion [...]
For fanatics of pro cycling, spectacles of power and speed can be washed down at leisure while sipping Lombardy’s light, red wines paired with risotto and ossobuco this fall in northern Italy. Over the eight days of the Italian Autumn Classics, Oct. 7-13, the rough riders of three end-of-season bicycle [...]
Couples who are getting married this year already know there are plenty of big and small details when planning a wedding. Along with the dress, cake, guest list and gift registry, their first tax return as a married couple should also be on their checklist. The IRS has tips and [...]
After years of late nights of studying and calls to the local pizza shop, a new set of college graduates is ready to enter the "real world." Now, they just need the best car to get them from A to Z. Against the backdrop of rising car prices and looming [...]
With summer around the corner, many students will turn their attention to making money by working a summer job. Whether it’s flipping burgers, waitressing, or filing documents, the IRS wants student workers to know some facts about their summer jobs and taxes. Not all the money they earn will make [...]
Bed and breakfast inns may seem like something from a different era, but according to Travelocity, this old school accommodation is seeing a significant upswing this summer. New booking data from the travel site shows room nights at B&Bs have grown 25 percent year-over-year both domestically and internationally, and some [...]
The Internal Revenue Service announced its application period for Low Income Taxpayer Clinic (LITC) grants for calendar year 2020 will run through June 17, 2019. If you didn't know the LITC Program is a federal grant program administered by the Office of the Taxpayer Advocate at the IRS, led by [...]
