ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Taking her first tax class in college, Eva Rosenberg declared she was avoiding this subject—for good. The information changes too much, too often. Who could ever keep up?
Intending to grow up to be Vice President of International Marketing for IBM, Eva took a brief detour spending a couple of years with national CPA firms. Doing taxes temporarily, to earn a living while completing her MBA in international business, Eva kept running into companies and people with tax problems that needed solving. Looking up, more than 20 years later, she finds herself the go-to girl for the tax community. CPAs, attorneys, and enrolled agents call her when their clients get audited—or have tax problems that can’t be resolved. Eva finds solutions that surprise even her—or she negotiates a fair resolution.
Not only does Eva help and advise tax professionals, she trains them. TaxMama’s® EA Exam Review Course helps prepare the tax professional community to pass the tough IRS examinations in order to gain the coveted Enrolled Agent designation. Never heard of Enrolled Agents or the Special Enrollment Examination (SEE)? Learn more about both at www.IRSExams.school.
Eva Rosenberg has written books, articles, tax columns, and even chapters of tax textbooks. An Internet pioneer and mentor to many, Eva founded the Internet’s HelpDesk & WebReview in 1997 to provide a safe place to ask dumb questions about your business website. It lasted for nearly 10 years, and inspired the TaxMama.com® website and persona.
Those years and experiences make Eva a popular resource for journalists. You’ll find her quoted in publications as diverse as the Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Tribune, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Glamour, Woman’s Day, and the National Enquirer. Her tips appear regularly in banking publications, including those of Wells Fargo, Guaranty Bank, and Bankrate.com. Eva is still awed each time she sees her name in print.
An immigrant to America who has seen life as both a charity recipient and the donor, Eva has the refreshing ability to understand and address the needs of the rich and the poor, as well as the ESL and non-English-speaking community—and to cut through the sob stories. She recognizes just how easy it is, in America, to move your address from the backseat of your semidemolished car to the deck of your 100-foot yacht, with your GPS and satellite-based Internet connection—and to lose it all. Or, to live for free on the kindness of strangers.
Eva’s frankness, sense of humor, and casual, stand-up tax delivery make her a popular talk show guest and speaker around the country. Her Dow Jones MarketWatch.com tax columns (http://www.marketwatch.com/topics/journalists/eva-rosenberg) are eagerly anticipated by readers, wondering just what IRS button she’s going to push next. Eva proudly displays a framed copy of IRS Notice 2004-271 issued as a result of one of her MarketWatch.com articles.
New projects in 2017 include developing and teaching nearly two dozen tax courses at CPE Link (http://www.cpelink.com/teamtaxmama), periodic articles for QuickBook’s Small Business Resource Center (http://quickbooks.intuit.com/r/author/eva-rosenberg/), and a weekly series of half-hour courses based on her ever- popular TaxQuips (http://taxmama.com/tax-quips/).
Known as TaxMama for both her warmth and her nagging, Eva, an enrolled agent, is the publisher of the highly acclaimed TaxMama.com and author of the weekly syndicated Ask TaxMama column and the TaxQuips podcast. The TaxMama.com site is a free resource, warmly welcoming all taxpayers and tax professionals. Through the site, Eva provides articles, IRS news, links to tax forms for the IRS and all states, and free answers to visitors’ tax questions . . . along with her own twist on pending and current legislation. Of course, Eva knows that people really come for the Money Funnies—the jokes pages.
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