There may not be much you can do about your current tax bill, but there's plenty of time to make the kind of changes that will reduce your taxes in the future.

Audits have dwindled, but that doesn't mean it's time to cheat.

Once a week, I drag my daughter into my office and force her to e-mail her friends, visit a Web site, play in my chair. I won't allow my husband to transfer his favorite computer game onto the machinery in the other room. That game stays in my office. Period. I may even set aside a corner of my desk for crafts, just to make it clear that this isn't just an office, it's a place for recreation.

If you give a car to charity, you'd better make sure you don't overstate its value for the lucrative tax deduction. If you do--or you did in the past--Marcus Owens might come looking for you.

Forget about Barbie dolls and blocks. Kaleigh Roberts, age 4, has a job and a retirement plan.

Did you exercise incentive stock options, pay a lot of state income tax or claim deductible medical expenses?