Tax Preparation
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April 4, 2013If you got married last year, you’ll be checking the “married, filing jointly” box on your tax return. As a couple, your taxes will go up or down, depending on what each of you earns.
If one of you earns most of the income, you get a...
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April 4, 2013NEW YORK (MainStreet) — As tax day draws near, millions of Americans are sweating over their W-2 and 1099 forms and hoping against hope that everything checks out and their tax returns are...
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March 21, 2013NEW YORK (MainStreet) — For Shauna Wekherlien, the owner of Tax Goddess Business Services PC in Scottsdale, Ariz., the scariest tax audit she saw was a corker, including threats from the...
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March 21, 2013You do — which comes to most people as a surprise.
You probably know that you owe a nanny tax on the wages of a...
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March 10, 2013NEW YORK (MainStreet) — What a difference a year makes.
Not that 2012 was easy-peasy for tax filers. In fact, the entire U.S. tax code filled...
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March 5, 2013Doing your taxes is not the most pleasant activity in your life - hopefully. However, in the rush of wanting to get your taxes done you may overlook certain important steps. Jim Jelter discusses seven steps that will help you prepare your tax...
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February 21, 2013You do. That is, if hope to take a child-care credit on your income tax return without running into problems with the IRS.
The child-...
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February 20, 2013NEW YORK (MainStreet) — The National Society of Accountants reports that the average cost of hiring a tax professional to prepare your Form 1040 with a Schedule A and state tax return is $...
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February 19, 2013In 2001, most people filed their taxes with a pen and a stamp. Today, that's the rarity. Since the millennium, the rate of e-filing IRS forms has grown from about 30 percent of filers to about 80 percent.
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February 19, 2013NEW YORK (MainStreet) — Calculators are humming and pencils are sharpened, all in anticipation of that annual exercise in angst and anxiety — filing your tax returns.
Last year more...