Personal Finance, Writing, and Blogging
Posted in Budgeting on Apr 20th, 2008
From me anyway.
The Washington Post has a story that’ll make you sigh and think to yourself, “What the hell?”
It’s all about the IRS and how they hire private debt collectors to go after the $1 billion dollars in taxes has gone goes unpaid since 1996.
Unpaid taxes: $1 billion
Money collected: $49 million
Cost to run the program: [...]
I’ve written about Iwillteachyoutoberich.com before, but last week I read another one of those posts where I’m just like, “Ramit, this is why you are the man.”
This was is about tax refunds and the existing belief (taken as pretty much gospel in the blogosphere and in personal finance in general) that getting a refund is [...]
Posted in Finance on Oct 23rd, 2007
My company will start offering this option next year and at first I was encouraged—it’s another way for people to try and minimize their expenses and save some money. It’s what a responsible money-manager would do.
But is it?
I began to talk it over with my coworker and his thoughts on it are the following:
“Hell, no!”
Seem [...]
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