Travis R. Martin, CPA, MBA

Mikey is part of a growing number of children being targeted by the IRS for failure to pay taxes on the toy prizes found in their cereal boxes.

Admit it. You’ve been driving past the poor sap in the cheap Statue of Liberty outfit for over a month now. It didn’t matter how hard they waved that foam torch or how many free hot dogs they offered, you still drove right on by. And you probably laughed as you did. Now it’s come [...]

That backseat driver in your car? It’s Uncle Sam. And he’s there to watch your odometer. At least that’s a possibility by the year 2020, according to a bipartisan Congressional commission researching potential ways to fund the upkeep of America’s roads. Among their ideas – installing an Orwellian tracking device in every vehicle and then [...]

Although it hasn’t yet been released in its entirety, President Obama’s 2010 proposed budget – which checks in at the tidy sum of $3,000,000,000,000 (zeros included for dramatic effect) – has already come under fire.  Among the most vocal detractors are Republicans and other pesky “rich” people who now face the unpleasant prospect of parting [...]