Taxes Blog

The bright side to waiting until Jan. 30 for the IRS to accept 2012 tax returns: You can explore some of 2013′s tax changes.

The American Taxpayer Relief Act made some tax laws permanent, but it also added more provisions that make filing even more complicated for some taxpayers.

The 2013 tax filing season will open eight days later than the Internal Revenue Service had planned, on Wednesday, Jan. 30.

Because Congress didn’t pass tax law changes affecting 2012 tax returns until Jan. 1, this year’s filing process could be delayed.

The tax bill passed to keep us from falling off the “fiscal cliff” also contained some questionable tax breaks for certain unorthodox businesses.

Congress let us fall off the “fiscal cliff,” but pulled us back on Jan. 1 with passage of a fiscal cliff tax bill that will cost wealthy taxpayers more.

The 6.2 percent payroll tax amount returned on Jan. 1, meaning that workers will see smaller paychecks in 2013.

Welcome to Capitol Hill High School. That’s what Washington, D.C., looks like as the “fiscal cliff” fight drags on with politics, not policy, driving the debate.

Republican House leaders canceled a vote on their so-called Plan B to keep us from falling off the “fiscal cliff” Jan. 1, 2013. Now what?

House GOPers are expected to approve Speaker John Boehner’s plan B. But it’s just the latest for-show-only action in the “fiscal cliff” standoff.