There have been many articles written about the recent fiscal cliff tax increases being averted for all but the “wealthiest” Americans (“Wealthiest” is considered $200k+ individuals and $250k+ for families).  However, what is being swept under the rug is the fact that 77% of middle income Americans ARE seeing a tax increase.   http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-07/wages-a-balm-for-u-s-workers-facing-payroll-tax-shock.html http://dailycaller.com/2013/01/06/white-house-online-my2k-campaign-fails-as-us-workers-payroll-taxes-increase/   Why [...]

We all heard in the news over the last week that lawmakers in Congress and the White House passed a deal to avert the Fiscal Cliff.  However, many third party budget watch-dogs feel that this “deal” was a band-aid and failed to cut much if any of the $16.4 Trillion debt or address any of [...]

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Congress’ research arm is offering a cheap way for the Internal Revenue Service to collect more of the nation’s unpaid taxes — focus even more enforcement on wealthier taxpayers.  A new Government Accountability Office analysis of the IRS’ efforts to collect unpaid taxes from citizens and small businesses in 2007 and 2008 found that exams [...]