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Last year, the IRS provided an automated AMT Assistant to help individuals slog through the worksheet to see if you need to file Form 6251 (AMT) with your Form 1040 (see coverage here). The IRS has updated the assistant for the 2006 filing season.
To use the tool, you will have to have a completed draft [...]

A new regular feature will focus on articles that I want to comment on but simply don’t have the time to post on each one. It will be run on Saturday with articles I add throughout the week.
This week’s installment:
Diebold posts picture of keys to voting machines, keys copied at home- Engadget
Breaking Views questions corporate [...]

Tax return procrastinators will have not one, but two extra days this year! Because of an arcane Federal law, the IRS has to allow you until April 17th to file your return because DC created a new holiday on April 16th.
Since the 15th is on a Sunday it defaults to the next business day (the [...]

That’s what we’re looking at if a story in the NY Times today comes to fruition. Basically, four very large states (California, Florida, Illinois and New Jersey) are likely moving their primaries to a single, early date. That date would be February 5th in 2008. That would essentially eliminate any smaller campaigns and require that [...]

The agency dilemma is an often studied issue in management classes. Basically, the dilemma states that an agent will do what is in their best interest more times than they will do what is in the best interests of the principal if the principal is not watching them like a hawk. In a stock market [...]

The 84th Carnival of Personal Finance is being hosted by Blueprint for Financial Prosperity.
The Carnival has been posted and can be found here.
I contributed my recent article on rebalancing my retirement portfolio. Go and check out all of the 75 entrants this week.

Ah, it’s that time of year again. Like Free Money Finance who posted a great article on rebalancing, I am also rebalancing my portfolio. As I stated in my post on this last year, my target allocations break down as follows:
45-55% Domestic Stocks
35-40% International Stocks
10-15% Real Estate
I further break down international stocks into emerging and developed [...]

There are very few websites that I pimp on mine because there are very few that I really fall in love with. I mentioned footnoted last week in relation to the Home Depot mess. One website that I have recently discovered that falls into this category is TechCrunch. Two of my main interests are tech [...]

I took a governmental budgeting class for my Master’s degree with the city manager of my town, so I got to know him a little bit. We live in a suburban area, so I’d imagine it’s an easier spot to fill than the towns in rural Oklahoma profiled in this NY Times piece.
However, the point [...]