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Year-End Tax Tips and Strategies

Tweet New taxes are likely to show up over the next few years as America wrestles with its deep debt and as the impact of national healthcare kicks in. To

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6 Important Tax Tips for 2012

Tweet Enjoy your Christmas and New Year’s holidays, but set aside some time now to get your tax planning in order right now. 1. Charitable donations. If you itemize your

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Tax Software: Should You Do It Yourself?

Tweet With the former choice, you can ensure that the person that does your taxes knows what he or she is doing. With the latter, you risk making important mistakes,

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How Charitable Donations Reduce Your Tax Burden

Tweet Charitable donations made to your church, synagogue, mosque or other religious group as well as to the Red Cross, the American Cancer Society and to Goodwill can be declared

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3 Tips for Reducing Your Taxes

Tweet Add these taxes up and you may be spending far more that what you imagine for government services. You can reduce your overall tax burden by employing one or

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IRS: Where’s My Refund?

Tweet Missing tax money and how to get your refund. Refunds are processed in the order that tax returns are received by the IRS, but if a significant amount of

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How to Pay Your Property Taxes Online

Tweet Online payment options for your property taxes. If you’re a homeowner and have an outstanding mortgage, then your property tax is most likely held in escrow with funds taken

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How to Pay Your Quarterly Estimated Taxes

Tweet Estimating and paying your quarterly federal taxes. Local taxes, too, sometimes must be paid, giving self-employed individuals a lot to keep track of during the course of the calendar

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How to Report Restaurant Tax Tips

Tweet One in an occasional series of articles about your taxes. The IRS requires restaurant workers to claim all tip income received. This includes tips you received from charge customers

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4 Tax Preparation Secrets Revealed

Tweet One in an occasional series of articles about your taxes. Come February, that begins to change with 1099 forms in hand and the realization that there is much work

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7 Timely Tax Tips for Realtors

Tweet One in an occasional series of articles about your taxes. 1. Client gifts — You know that vintage California chardonnay you presented to your clients at closing last year?

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Home Office Tax Tips for the Self-Employed

Tweet One in an occasional series of articles about your taxes. Let’s take a look at some of the top deductions for the self-employed individual working from home: Home office

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Tax Tips for Job Seekers

Tweet Some expenses are minor, such as postage paid for sending off a resume. Other expenses are much more significant including relocating to a new city at your own expense

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7 Hot Tax Tips

Tweet One in an occasional series of articles about your taxes. A pattern of mistakes could also trigger an IRS audit, creating inconvenience and upset for taxpayers. 1. Know your

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Tax Tips for the New Year

Tweet One in an occasional series of articles about your taxes. We’ll be discussing a number of tax issues in coming weeks or months, but want to alert you to