And one of those tax-yammering heads was mine.
FoxBusiness.com Live, the cable TV network’s noon online program, focused today on taxes. Four of us — Fox’s resident accountant Tracy Burns, H&R Block’s Amy McAnarney, Chuck Jaffe from Marketwatch, and moi.
I was approached to talk about a story I did for Bankrate on housing tax laws. I did get to that, but the hosts Connell McShane and Jenna Lee also were captivated by my blog item on sin taxes.
A good portion of the 12 minutes I spent on air was spent on the potential for overhaul of the tax code (a dream that’s still a long way off), the IRS change of heart on deducting e-payment charges and sin taxes.
Unfortunately, I fear we on the program and the viewers who were Twittering with the hosts during the broadcast, came up with more possible bad habit areas to tax! I just hope not too many lawmakers were on watching!
You can watch the program below or here if you don’t see the video box. I debut around 33 minutes.
After a slow start — doing a remote and not seeing the folks in the studio, I wasn’t immediately sure Connell was talking to me — I did OK. They let me ramble for 12 minutes, so I guess they thought so did, too.
And yes, that’s the actual Texas capitol building behind me. Pretty cool, eh?
Anyway, that’s my 15 (or 12) minutes of fame … for now!
