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Top 10 Tax Day freebies: free food, free filing, free stuff!
April 15th, 2013Albert Einstein once said, “The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.” So if even he couldn’t figure it out, what chance do the rest of us have? Well. here’s something that doesn’t take an Einstein to understand: FREE stuff!
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Mobile apps for getting your taxes in order
January 17th, 2013It’s almost tax season, and this year all Americans have a little more to deal with than they have in the past. That’s because of new laws such as the Affordable Care Act, which are going to change up a few parts of the tax code and lead to some new forms and different circumstances.
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Alternative Minimum Tax: Common Questions
January 4th, 2013Alternative Minimum Tax: Common Questions (via TurboTax) AMT Concerns Growing Each year, more and more taxpayers discover, to their dismay, that they are subject to the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT), which knocks out a lot of exemptions, deductions and credits…
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Tax Tips After January 1, 2013
January 3rd, 2013Tax Tips After January 1, 2013 (via TurboTax) If you think your tax bill is chiseled in stone at the end of the year, think again. Though it’s true that most money-saving options to defer income or accelerate deductions become…
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Tax Deduction Wisdom – Should You Itemize?
January 2nd, 2013Tax season pressure may tempt you to accept the standard tax deduction, rather than exploring the potential benefit of itemizing your deductions. To figure out whether itemizing would be profitable for you, you need to determine whether the allowable expenses…
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Real Estate Tax and Rental Property
December 31st, 2012Real Estate Tax and Rental Property (via TurboTax) Consider this scenario: After buying a condo and living in it for several years, Sue meets Steve, marries him and moves into his house. Because the rental market in their area is…
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Filing an Income Tax Extension
December 30th, 2012Filing an Income Tax Extension (via TurboTax) If you can’t complete your 2012 federal tax return by the April 15, 2013 deadline, you can buy yourself more time. Just file an extension to push the deadline back six months to…
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5 Tax Tips for Students (via TurboTax Canada)
December 29th, 2012TurboTax Canada 1) Claim extra school related costs. You’ll receive a T2202 slip for your official tuition expenses from your post-secondary institution, but if you incurred additional expenses while attending school you may be eligible to deduct those expenses on…
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