Internal Revenue Service agents are now being given authority to set aside penalties for delinquency. The IRS has new instructions on how to deal with tax payers who are facing financial challenges because of home foreclosures, investment or retirement fund failures or other catastrophic income reversals.   More...

Getting More for Your Money by Asking

Consumers, who are willing to bargain and unwilling to accept the price of an item as marked can save literally thousands of dollars each year.   More...

Refund Anticipation Loans are quick payment checks which some of the national tax service companies hand out, if clients are too impatient to wait for the IRS to send a check or deposit their return in a bank account.  More...