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IRS tax auditing lags for ultra-wealthy: report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A new Internal Revenue Service team looking at the business activities of the ultra-wealthy has missed its own goals, reviewing only one privately held company and 10…
How to get the most from Social Security
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The trustees of Social Security will release their annual report on the program’s health sometime in the next few weeks, and the news will not be good.
What if you can’t pay your taxes?
NEW YORK (Reuters) – It’s one of the worst tax time scenarios: You discover while doing your taxes — or you just know without even doing them —that you owe taxes, and you don’t have the cash. What…
Mutual funds fight for flows against ETFs
NEW YORK, April 9 Reuters – A funny thing happened on the way to the death of the traditional mutual fund, foretold by some analysts. It hasn’t happened.
For financial stress ills, try education cure
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stomach hurting? Feeling a migraine coming on? It might not be a virus or allergies; it might be your finances.
Why I want to be a landlord
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The first call my husband and I made after closing in March on a two-family house in Brooklyn, New York, was to a rental agent. We were becoming landlords and we wanted to get…
Analysis: Jobs Act doesn’t mean Wild West for companies
(Reuters) – Any U.S. corporate executives who think they can use the Jobs Act’s relaxed rules for public listing to cut corners on accounting and disclosure may want to think again.
Stern Advice: Don’t worry, Grandma will cover it
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The generation that invented “helicopter parenting” is moving into its grandparenting years with a wad of cash and strong ideas about how their precious posterity should live,…
Undercover operation shows broker advice missteps
(Reuters) – People make a lot of dumb investing mistakes. And they should not expect financial advisers to correct them.