tax bill

If you're one of the many taxpayers who owes the IRS a chunk of cash this month, you'll want to steer clear of one increasingly popular way to pay that tax bill: using your credit card.

Now that President Obama has signed a sweeping tax bill into law, many Americans want to know how they'll be affected. The compromise deal extends Bush-era tax reductions on income, capital gains and dividends through 2012. But there were also some changes.

A call from the state tax department saved Earl Phillips life. The call came on May 26 from Natalie Brown, an employee of the Kentucky Department of Revenue. During their conversation, brown noticed that Phillips was breathing heavily -- apparently in need of medical assistance. She then verified...

It's one nightmare everyone hopes to avoid: owing the IRS a lot of money. It's not pretty, but it happens a lot. What do you do? Well the worst thing you can do is to not file a tax return. If you prepare your taxes and find you owe a lot of money, you must still file the return. Not filing can...