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Tax Plan

  • Argyle C. Klopnik, Esq.
  • October 2, 2017
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Trump Dads: A Confession

  • Helen Betya Rubinstein
  • November 23, 2016
Mine wears short shorts while he jogs, with a baseball cap over his baldness, and no shirt. His comes home from work and changes into a full gray sweatsuit, then…
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More Money, More Problems

  • Ian MacAllen
  • April 12, 2016
What happens when writers suddenly face a windfall? Bad things. That’s why the Whiting Awards include a financial planning workshop for winners. Winners of the 2016 Whiting Awards each received…
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Feel Less Dumb

  • Kelly Lynn Thomas
  • February 17, 2016
Debut novelist Adrienne Celt (The Daughters, 2015) has some advice for you. Not writing advice, of course. No, Celt would like to help you with your taxes: I think it’s nice…
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Tax Advice from David Foster Wallace

  • P.E. Garcia
  • March 23, 2015
“Tax law is like the world’s biggest game of chess with all sorts of weird conundrums about ethics and civics and the consent of the governed built in,” Wallace wrote…
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How the IRS Defines Art

  • Lyz Lenz
  • July 10, 2014
In an essay on Narrative.ly, Alison Gerber recounts the rather harrowing IRS audit of Minneapolis artist Venus DeMars: Sometimes the line between professional and amateur is a clear, bright one.…
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EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT STEVE ALMOND’S TAXES

  • Hannah Kingsley-Ma
  • August 2, 2012
“Further questions should be referred to my accountant, the aforementioned Marty, who is no longer employed by H&R Block and who was, last time I checked, living in a small…
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Throwaways on the Radio

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • April 3, 2012
Listen in as Rumpus contributor Melissa Chadburn reads from her excellent essay “The Throwaways” on American Public Media’s Marketplace. “If we are saying “I value you” when we pay our…
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The Throwaways

  • Melissa Chadburn
  • January 25, 2012
I grew up poor. Not too poor. My relatives in the Philippines would certainly not consider my youth as poor. But poor like I thought vacuum cleaners were luxury items.…
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