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From KirkWalsh.com - view blog entries - visit this blogFebruary 28, 2008 at 1:07 pm ET
I have a confession to make. Even though I do taxes every day (and passed the CPA exam in October!) I’ve used Turbo Tax for the past three years to do my taxes. The reason? ... ( more)
From KirkWalsh.com - view blog entries - visit this blogFebruary 27, 2008 at 1:20 pm ET
The muckracking professor whose research lead to the whole stock option backdating scandal (albeit, a decade later) is back at it again. Apparently, he’s now looking to see whether insiders backdated stock donations to their ... ( more)
From KirkWalsh.com - view blog entries - visit this blogFebruary 25, 2008 at 1:37 pm ET
The State of New Jersey has a certain, shall we say, reputation with tax folks. Not only are they one of the most taxpayer-unfriendly states, but the bureaucracy to fix one of their many mistakes ... ( more)
From KirkWalsh.com - view blog entries - visit this blogFebruary 22, 2008 at 12:55 pm ET
I apologize for the lack of content. The flu has ravaged our family, I’ve been travelling for work, and our home computer has been non-functional. More to come, hopefully next week!
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From KirkWalsh.com - view blog entries - visit this blogFebruary 6, 2008 at 11:40 am ET
While everyone is worried about delegate counts (and who thought we had a more complicated system than the Electoral College?), my thoughts and prayers go out to all of those in our neighboring states that ... ( more)
From KirkWalsh.com - view blog entries - visit this blogFebruary 3, 2008 at 3:22 pm ET
Being in Missouri, we get bombarded by robocalls (yeah, thanks for exempting yourselves when passing the Do Not Call list). I have to wonder, do they work? Are they like spam and work for X% ... ( more)
From KirkWalsh.com - view blog entries - visit this blogFebruary 2, 2008 at 12:26 pm ET
I still don’t know what to do with it, but I’m on Facebook. So, if you have an account and want another friend to show off, look me up (kirk at kirkwalsh dot com).
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From KirkWalsh.com - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 31, 2008 at 12:56 pm ET
So, the primary is less than a week away and I still haven’t decided who to vote for. With Edwards and Giuliani dropping out, I have basically six choices now.
Clinton
Obama
Huckabee
Paul
McCain
Romney
Clinton- My feelings about the Clinton ... ( more)
From KirkWalsh.com - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 29, 2008 at 5:07 pm ET
12pm: 73 degrees
3pm: snowing
Copyright © 2008 kirkwalsh.com. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of ... ( more)
From KirkWalsh.com - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 28, 2008 at 12:54 pm ET
It seems that the huge loss in South Carolina is affecting the Clinton campaign. First, they took great pains to point out that Jesse Jackson won the primary twice in an attempt to smear Obama to ... ( more)
From KirkWalsh.com - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 27, 2008 at 10:55 am ET
Kevin over at Exurban League posted a link to an opinion piece wondering if the Right was right on the Clintons. While his reason for posting the column is different than mine, I ... ( more)
From KirkWalsh.com - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 24, 2008 at 12:43 pm ET
In what must be the quickest agreement in the history of Congress, Democrats and Republicans agreed on a stimulus plan. It includes business and personal tax incentives.
That scream you hear? It’s state tax departments all ... ( more)
From KirkWalsh.com - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 23, 2008 at 5:19 pm ET
I left this on Saturn’s website after being told (kindly and gently) to go f myself by their Customer Service folks. Apparently, the key is to never trust anything that any company tells you. Thank ... ( more)
From KirkWalsh.com - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 22, 2008 at 5:42 pm ET
Missouri Governor Matt Blunt has shocked just about everyone by announcing he’s done what he’s come to do and he won’t seek reelection.
The Governor has been dogged by an e-mail scandal that just won’t die. ... ( more)
From KirkWalsh.com - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 22, 2008 at 1:32 pm ET
Until today, I don’t think I was all that concerned about the economy. Yes, it was slowing. Yes, we’re probably headed for a recession. But these are natural business cycles. Even all the talk about ... ( more)
From KirkWalsh.com - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 17, 2008 at 12:50 pm ET
You know the joke about the difference between an audit and a colonoscopy? Well, Google apparently didn’t hear it. This post on Roth and Co. cracked me up (not the least because Des Moines is ... ( more)
From KirkWalsh.com - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 16, 2008 at 1:10 pm ET
Like I’ve said before, I want to like Mike Huckabee, I really do. He’s a personable guy who has a sense of humor about himself, which is sorely lacking politics. Most of his religious social ... ( more)
From KirkWalsh.com - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 16, 2008 at 8:32 am ET
That should be the new motto for the Democratic Party (well, really both but my particular ire is with the Democrats on this one). When running in 2006, the Democrats promised “cross my heart and ... ( more)
From KirkWalsh.com - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 15, 2008 at 12:33 pm ET
If you haven’t received your free credit report from each of the major credit bureaus in the past 365 days, now is a good time to go get one. Or, if you are like me ... ( more)
From KirkWalsh.com - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 14, 2008 at 12:43 pm ET
The IRS has issued Notice 2008-14 (pdf link) that lists tax return arguments that the IRS has deemed to be frivolous. This is important because taking one of these positions on your return may subject ... ( more)
From KirkWalsh.com - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 10, 2008 at 1:05 pm ET
Politico has an interesting article up today doing a post-mortem on the New Hampshire coverage that all but pronounced the Clinton campaign dead after Iowa. It gives three primary reasons why the coverage was so favorable ... ( more)
From KirkWalsh.com - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 8, 2008 at 1:06 pm ET
TaxProf passed along a link to a new paper released by the Treasury’s Office of Tax Analysis authored by William Gentry of Williams College. The title of the paper is titled “A Review of the Evidence on ... ( more)
From KirkWalsh.com - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 7, 2008 at 7:35 pm ET
For those that have been following along, I passed all four parts of the CPA exam. I had one of my scores and realized I could look the other ones up online.
Woohoo! I can stop ... ( more)
From KirkWalsh.com - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 7, 2008 at 1:02 pm ET
Just when it appears that Sony/BMG is getting the picture, they pull off the single worst idea in the history of the company (ok, maybe not).
Sony/BMG has decided to abandon DRM (the software that keeps ... ( more)
From KirkWalsh.com - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 4, 2008 at 3:58 pm ET
CBSNews.com’s Politico blog has a story up on the “changing tactics” of the Clinton campaign after her third place finish in Iowa. Read “changing tactics” as mudslinging and you’re pretty much right on target.
Hillary Rodham ... ( more)
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