This man may have just learned about tax scams the hard way. On Reddit, a writer named “buddy276” said this week he was being audited by the Internal Revenue Service for taxes he owed in 2018. But from there, his description of what was going on got fishier and fishier. “For 2018, I had a normal job with a W2,” buddy276 wrote. He filed his taxes through TurboTax INTU, -1.26% , he said, and expected a tax return of about $1,200. He didn’t have any side income, he said. After he filed, he...

Traveling the country, driving past corn fields and mom-and-pop shops until you reach the Grand Canyon. Pulling up the trunk, kicking off your shoes and cracking open a cold one, while dangling your feet into the dusty summer air. Sleeping under twinkly lights. Seems like a picture-perfect life, maybe even one built for Instagram, right? It’s known as #vanlife — that is, traveling, or even living full time, in a van — and it’s seductive. At least it was for Lisa, a 43-year-old mom of one who...

Feeling low on cash? Chase JPM, +1.44% knows why, at least according to a tweet the company has since deleted. The tweet was a play on a meme, in which someone asks why they have a problem. There seem to be obvious solutions, but the tweet sarcastically ends with, “Guess we’ll never know.” me: why do i feel terrible brain: coffee is not a food group brain: eat a vegetable brain: sleep me: guess we'll never know brain: oh my god — do not interact with this tweet (@aplethoras) August 14,...

iStockphoto Well, this is one way to cut down your grocery bill. This week, a writer posted on Reddit that she had found a new way to save “so much money on grocery bills.” In fact, their food budget is now just 60% of what it used to be. The trick: the recently trendy practice of intermittent fasting. It’s “not for everybody,” the writer, who goes by “Kelly_Jelly_11,” said. But in her experience, “Skipping breakfast and switching all my drinks to water and carbonated water has been a huge...

iStockphoto Single, financially savvy, unattached and with plenty of money to spare. It sounds like an enviable position, but according to a recent Reddit thread, it can actually pose some challenges in the dating world. A writer on Reddit by the name of “minimalistmillennial,” who described herself as a 24-year-old woman with a $50,000 net worth, said she has concerns about dating while she pursues financial independence and early retirement. That concept, which typically means someone is...