Legislation would repeal estate tax, make state, local sales tax deductions permanent.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Warren Buffett wants President Obama to approve the Keystone pipeline. Plus: Rocky Mountain high tax revenues, ECB puts Greek debt in the doghouse, and institutional investors are bullish and careful.
Plenty of paperwork and pain await taxpayers and accountants this year. Here are the biggest pitfalls to watch out for.
Families may get to pay for computers again with these popular college savings accounts.
Self-styled 'Deficit Owl' believes government can spend as much as needed to spur economic growth, get to full employment.
Data suggest some workers are making the maximum contributions to their health savings accounts, but there's room for improvement.
Issue becomes distraction from president's broader plan to expand and simplify tax breaks for education
Three potential financial planning issues you might have to handle if president's proposal becomes law.
In budget proposal, president to offer companies system they have sought but on less favorable terms.
The IRS should re-examine its budgetary priorities and direct more of its shrinking resources to taxpayer guidance and assistance
Group set to launch lobbying days in Florida, Texas, New York and California.
Inherited IRAs being impacted by bankruptcy is a remote event, but advisers and clients should still be prepared
Add one to your bookshelf and refer clients to the other.
More than half of U.S. households don't have enough saved for retirement, Center for American Progress finds.
College planning would change under president's reforms to education tax code.
The markets giveth, and keep on giving
In Friday's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>, the downside of a multi-year bull market in stocks: Investors get overconfident. Plus: If oil drops to $30 look out below, not all hedge fund workers are rich, and what the IRS is looking for now.
Some of the president's tax plans likely will give nightmares to the clients of financial advisers.
But comparing the three market leaders &mdash; TurboTax, TaxACT and H&R Block &mdash; isn't easy.
