​​​Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Briefs:

• Episode 1 - The Post Card Myth
• ​Episode 2 - Survivors and Casualties
  
• Episode 3 - The Truth About the Tax Cuts
  
• Episode 4 - Kids - Oy!
  
• Episode 5 - To Itemize or Not Itemize?  That is the Question​
• Episode 6 - Other Changes to Itemized Deductions
  
• Episode 7 - What About My Mortgage Interest? 
  
• Episode 8 - Rental Property - Not Much Has Changed
• ​Episode 9 - Businesses and Self-Employed People
• Episode 10 - Miscellaneous Final Comments

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Abolish the IRS?  Don't Hold Your Breath! - A lot of folks like the idea of abolishing the IRS.  Here're five reasons that I don't think it'll happen in my lifetime.

Fat Guy Explains the Budget Deal - Congress is full of "double-speak," that is designed to confuse taxpayers, voters and make themselves look good.  This helps to make it a bit more understandable.

2015 Midsummer Rant - Obamacare Update - Phone Scams - IRS Stupidity

Teenage Tax Protester Rant - My daughter gets her first glimpse of how taxes cost working people

2013 Obamacare Update Rant - The nightmare of cost increases and taxes starts to hit home

2012 Supreme Court Decision - Obamacare - It's not about health care, it's about taxation

Fun Facts and Miscellany - Various quirky and fantastic stories, cases and facts that will leave you shaking your head

Articles and The (In)famous Rants

Tax Man LLC

Randall S. van Reken, EA, CFP, ATP