The important thing to understand is there are certain things you can do. They may or may not help you. It's not something that is just totally and completely under control.

The point of doing a Coordinate Program Review, which we do for every system in the state, is to help make our schools better. When we find deficiencies, we work with the schools to come up with an action plan to make needed changes.

I once cashed out a bunch of savings bonds in the middle of the year and forgot about them. Then I got a nice little love note from the IRS saying they'd corrected my return.

There is this loophole, which is strange.

A day trader could have a couple thousand trades while even a more typical investor could still have 20 to 40 trades during a year. If you have a bunch of trades, you'd end having to pay an outrageous tax preparation fee because there'd be so many trades that would have to be typed in.

The grandmother can't take the dependency exemption if the mother claims the child for the Earned-Income Tax Credit any longer under the new rules.