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Jeffrey Coolidge | Photodisc | Getty Images This tax season, there have been heightened concerns about IRS audits as the agency begins to deploy its nearly $80 billion in funding. While the IRS plans to hire more workers, including enforcement agents, experts say there’s no need to worry — as long as you keep proper

Japan is the top destination in Asia for gastronomes this year, according to new rankings released by the 50 Best organization.  The country is home to 17 of the region’s “best” 100 restaurants, which were released in two parts in March. Singapore and Thailand tied for second place, with 15 restaurants on the list each.

Middle-aged millennials have arrived. As more millennials — often defined as those born between 1981 and 1996 — turn 40, a generation long defined by youth transitions to a new phase in life. And they’re bringing their tech-savviness, social consciousness and spending habits in tow, which is transforming a travel industry intent on staying ahead

Prior to running the most popular social media app in the world, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew was an intern for one of his largest competitors. Chew, 40, has led TikTok since 2021 — overseeing its ascent to become the world’s most downloaded app last year, with 672 million downloads, according to a Statista analysis

A private island in Palm Beach could become the most-expensive home ever sold in Florida, if it gets its asking price of $218 million. Developer Todd Michael Glaser and his partners bought 10 Tarpon Isle — the only private island in Palm Beach — for $85 million in 2021. They built a brand new house,

Mark Zuckerberg’s has long been fascinated with Ancient Rome. Now he has his very own triumvirate. The Facebook co-founder on Friday announced the birth of his third child, revealing that he and his wife Priscilla Chan Zuckerberg have named the baby Aurelia. Zuckerberg shared the first photo of his newborn in an Instagram post, calling

As a young, avid collector of luxury watches, Austen Chu said he was scammed “many times” when he bought timepieces from the secondary watch market.  “Once, I bought a watch which had a dented dial and the seller told me that the dial got dented during shipping,” Chu recalled. And he believed it.  But now,

Doing well in school doesn’t necessarily translate to financial success. Just ask Barbara Corcoran. In a recent TikTok video, the 74-year-old entrepreneur and investor on ABC’s “Shark Tank” told her followers that she often struggled in school as a child. “I couldn’t do letters and numbers my whole life,” Corcoran said, adding that she even

When it comes to the U.S. economy, confidence is key. But the banking crisis has threatened to upset how most people feel about their financial picture. “The bank problems are probably making a lot of people think twice,” said Diana Furchtgott-Roth, an economics professor at George Washington University and former chief economist at the U.S. Department of

Hong Kong has been named the most expensive location in Asia for business travelers — for the second year in a row, according to a new report.  ECA International’s latest Daily Rates research ranked countries based on costs for short trip expenses: four-star hotel rooms, meals, laundry, alcoholic and soft drinks, journeys by taxi and

Finland has been named the happiest country in the world — again. The Nordic country topped the “World Happiness Report 2023,” published this week by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network, which measures factors such as income, mental and physical health and societal generosity. According to the report: “Finland continues to occupy the top

Valtteri Heinila was working in a startup when he realized he needed a break. “I started noticing time really accelerating,” said Valtteri, 26. The days started to blur, and then so did the months, he said. He didn’t settle for a regular holiday. Instead, he traveled 15,400 kilometers (9,600 miles) along a route from Finland