Filing Your Taxes Early? IRS Will Not Process Returns Before Opening Day


Despite the announcement from the Internal Revenue Service about the late start to tax season, taxpayers are already confused. Why the confusion? Tax preparer advertising. Some tax preparers are...
    






Do You Speak IRS? Tax Resources Available In Many Languages


Pferd. Kuh. Ente. Gelb. Rot. Blau. Throw in a few numbers and you now have the extent of my ability to speak German. Farm animals, colors and numbers. That’s what I’ve picked up from the children’s...
    






20 Business Lessons You Don’t Want To Learn The Hard Way


A few months ago, we posed this question to ShortStack‘s Facebook fans: “What is one business lesson you learned the hard way?” It began as a simple question to garner engagement, but it led to a...
    






How To Lose Financial Weight This Year


It’s that wonderful time of year again – January.  We have enjoyed a slew of holiday celebrations and a million reasons to eat poorly and not exercise.  It’s no wonder that most of us make a New Year...
    






Steam Removes Game ‘Order Of War: Challenge’ From User Libraries


It was bound to happen sooner or later. Valve’s online gaming distribution website Steam has removed what appears to be the very first game from user libraries. Many games have been removed from the...
    






Beats Headphones Package Contained Tuna Cans


When Steve Lopez’s daughter requested her dad for a Christmas present, he gladly went to Wal-Mart to purchase it especially for her. Yet when he returned home, his daughter was shocked by what the...
    






Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine Has A Tax Lesson


I think that it is intuitively obvious that divorce is a major source of stress. I do not need to supplement the assertion with further research.   Go ahead and google “divorce stress” and pick from...
    






This Man’s Business Is Providing Fake Job Histories And References


After William Schmidt lost his job as part of a mass layoff from a Columbus, OH auto parts distributor in 2009, several colleagues who had also lost their jobs asked him if he would act as a...