Marketplace Money Stories

Every so often, with some regularity, politicians get in trouble for failing to pay their taxes. So, why does it seem politicians make mistakes most of the rest of us don't?

Marketplace Money host Tess Vigeland and Frank Degen answer a tax question about how to categorize the sale of a home that has lost money.

Marketplace Money host Tess Vigeland and tax expert Frank Degen answer a question about how worried you should be if you lost an important document.

Marketplace Money takes to the streets again to find out if people approach their tax returns with any ritual.

What's the best tax return you've ever received? In the hundreds, maybe the low thousands? What if your tax return was more like $50,000! Tess talks to a couple who got the most unexpected call from their tax accountant.

Tess Vigeland talks to Kimberly Palmer, senior editor and columnist for US News and World Report. She says that refunds are not only good, but something you should have fun with.

Many foreigners living in the U.S. are volunteering to cough up money for Uncle Sam. But why?

According to the IRS, more people are opting to do their taxes using some kind of tax software. But many are still nervous about going it alone.

Last year, the government audited more than 1.5 million individual tax returns, an increase of 11 percent over the previous year. So just how bad is the audit experience?

We ask our tax expert what he carries in his wallet.