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Taxing online sales
digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Free_ride_is_over_IRS_taxing_online_sales'; As if there wasn't enough to complain about with the IRS, add this to the list. The US Treasury Department is making a charge at forcing Internet auction sites to ...
PC World reviews tax software
As far as the media is concerned, "tax time" is the entire period from January 1 to a couple weeks
after April 15. Just as your tax documents begin to roll in, PC World has posted a review of the three major software tax ...
TaxCut includes free tax CDs in magazines
H&R Block is taking a cue from AOL. In major computer magazines this month, H&R Block is
providing free CD-ROMs of its TaxCut tax software to readers. The CDs were spotted in PC Magazine and PC
World. The same program costs $10 on TaxCut's ...
Turbo Tax flaw leaves online tax return data vulnerable
A Nebraska woman recently found a glitch in the way Turbo Tax lets users file their taxes over the web. By trying to access information she had filed in previous years, she found a way to access data three other users had previously uploaded. Each of ...
Which tax software equals the biggest return?
We've seen a couple round-up reviews of tax
software, and while features and ease-of-use matter, a question that shouldn't be neglected is: which will give me
the biggest refund? AP's Ashley Heher pitted H&R Block's TaxCut, Intuit's TurboTax, and ...
Newegg says 'No' to NY sales tax law
At the beginning of the summer, a new sales tax law went into effect in New York State, requiring online retailers who have some sort of presence in the state (like shipping centers or affiliate programs) to charge sales tax on any item shipped to ...
"Adios" to Spanish-American War Phone Tax
Believe it or not, if you're an American, you've been paying a 3% excise tax on all of your long distance calls to finance the Spanish-American war (yup--the same war that ended years before Theodore Veil founded the first long-distance networking ...
Overstock.com to NY: No tax dollars for you!
The state of New York recently adopted a law that requires online retailers to collect taxes for items sold in New York if they have affiliates based in the state. That might sound like a reasonable request if New York shopping malls were littered ...
New York state may begin taxing music downloads
New York, the state that brought us taxes on items bought over the internet is at it again. This time governor David Paterson is considering a 4% tax on music and other digital media downloads. To be fair, times are tight and Paterson is also ...
Amazon to collect taxes in NY while fighting NY in court
While Amazon plans to fight New York's recent decision to start collecting, the company has updated its tax collection page to let NY customers know that it will begin collecting tax on June 1st.
The state of New York recently passed legislation ...
U.S. Senate considers extending internet tax ban
You know how you you don't have to pay taxes on your internet service? (If you're a US citizen, at least). Yeah, that might last. In fact, it might not even last much longer than a month. In 1998 the U.S. government passed a law preventing states ...
New York to begin charging sales tax for online purchases
You know how if you live in most states in the US you don't have to pay sales tax on items purchased online? Yeah, that's about to change for about 19 million residents of New York State. Legislators have approved a bill that requires large online ...
Google sued over tax expemptions
Large companies and tax breaks go together like peanut butter and chocolate. Google, with it's hefty pockets and incredible expansion capabilities is a coveted prize for any state. North Carolina offered to cut Google a break on its tax bill, to the ...
New Jersey's iTunes tax
Our friends in New Jersey are about to pay a little more for music on Apple's iTunes starting this week. A sales tax will be added to iTunes digital downloads, stemming from the Governor's proposition this spring. The Governor had the smart idea to ...
Turbo Tax electronic filing system overloaded on Tuesday
It's not been a great week for Turbo Tax. First it comes out that there's a security flaw allowing uses to see tax returns uploaded by other customers. And now parent company Intuit is confirming that all the last minute filings on Tuesday night ...
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
