Taxgirl

taxgirl

"Tax news, tax info and tax policy—and it's not as boring as you think!" The author answers tax-related questions from readers, finds tales of woe from the news about individuals who didn't anticipate the tax consequences of their actions, and stays on top of the Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service.

Author: Kelly Phillips Erb is a founding member of the Erb Law Firm in Philadelphia. She also authors Lawmummy.

Blawg Related Categories: Tax Law • Solo / Small Firm

Recent Posts from Taxgirl


  • Fix the Tax Code Friday: Pay Per Mile Tax

    It’s Fix the Tax Code Friday! This week, there has been a lot of discussion across the internet about “going Dutch” a la the pay-per-kilometer system recently passed in Amsterdam. So today’s Fix the Tax…

  • Tax Update Blog: ‘Cheat’? I don’t think the word means what they think it means.

    Great piece by Joe Kristan at Roth & Company PC about FBAR reporting… Tax Update Blog: ‘Cheat’? I don’t think the word means what they think it means.: “” Similar Posts: Ask the taxgirl: Foreign…

  • Ask the taxgirl: Do I Need a Form 1099?

    Taxpayer asks: Several elderly friends have asked me to help them with administratrive work in there home. I would probably do this on an ongoing basis and I am sure each would end up paying…

  • Girls Gone Wild Founder To File Bankruptcy, Blames IRS

    And here I thought my days of reporting on Joe Francis were over… It turns out that the Girls Gone Wild founder hasn’t quite put his tax woes behind him. After taking a deal to…

  • So Tell Me, Taxpayer: Do You Feel Lucky?

    It was a question posed to US taxpayers by the IRS in the wake of the UBS scandal: do you feel lucky? The US offered US taxpayers the opportunity to voluntarily disclose offshore bank accounts…

  • Tax By the Kilometer: A New Meaning to “Going Dutch”

    The Dutch are well known for Delft pottery, wooden shoes, legalized prostitution and windmills. Perhaps not surprisingly, many of those things haven’t caught on in all areas of the world (oh c’mon, tell me that…

  • Singapore, Liechtenstein No Longer Gray

    Who says that a little pressure doesn’t work these day? Singapore and Liechtenstein have both apparently decided that they wanted to be one of the cool kids after all. This week, both countries received word…

  • It’s a Tax Lien, Dahling

    The woman who claims that she “never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back” may have to change her mind when it comes to Bernie Madoff. Zsa Zsa Gabor claims to have lost…

  • Fix the Tax Code Friday: Targeted Enforcement

    IRS Commish Doug Shulman has not been shy about talking about targeted enforcement. Targeted enforcement – the idea of cherry picking certain target groups to investigate or examine – is nothing new: it’s happened for…

  • Ooh… I Get It… We Still Have to Pay For This Thing

    As part of the continuing discussions about health care reform, the spectre of how to pay for it has risen again. Yeah, cause that’s how it apparently works in Congress. Much like college students, the…