Personal Finance Advice and Commentary

Between the new Medicare tax and the increase in capital gains, some home sellers could be squeezed.

The top 2 percent of earners will see their investment income dented by higher taxes this year.

Here are some loose ends that anyone planning for retirement should tie up by year’s end.

Real estate investors are facing potentially higher capital gains taxes next year.

Wealthy homeowners and property investors may be hit with a confusing surtax.

Here are four financial housekeeping chores that are worth doing now — before 2013 financial changes kick in.

Unresolved tax issues of the so-called fiscal cliff could raise the cost of selling property.

Potential changes in the tax code have huge ramifications for the wealthy.

Congress is between a rock and a hard place over federal budget deficits, but as of today, it looks like there shortly will be a compromise over raising the debt ceiling. As Washington Post writer Ezra Klein wrote, both sides have a “healthy aversion to unimaginable consequences.” Even if the current debt ceiling crisis is