Archive for the 'Taxes' Category

Lessons Learned This Tax Season: Procrastination May Be Leading Cause of Financial Death

How procrastination unforeseen events and delays such as power outages and technology malfunction almost got me in trouble with my tax return.

Make Your January 1, 2009 Home Mortgage Payment Today to Cut Your 2008 Taxes

Making your mortgage payment due January 1st in December can lower your income tax bill come April.

Monopoly Game Expansion #5: Income Tax Edition

Expansion difficulty/complexity level: Medium-Easy
This is a fairly easy Monopoly game expansion to teach youngsters the principles of filing and paying income tax. It includes an income tax form on which players keep track of income and deductions, figure and pay their income tax at the end of each circuit of the board. Players may opt [...]

Dear Taxpayer: Good News! Your Property Tax Has Decreased … P.S. So Has Your Property Value

We received the following letter from our County Assessor-Recorder the day before yesterday. At first I was afraid to open it, thinking it was bad news. Well, it did turn out to be bad news … but with every cloud comes a silver lining…
Dear Taxpayer:
As a result of the decline in value of the local [...]

Tax Form & Publication Guide for the Newly Self-Employed

If you make money working on your own, such as blogging with Google AdSense, Amazon Associates, etc., you will very likely have received a Form 1099-MISC for miscellaneous income by the beginning of February. And you will need to file and pay self-employment tax.

The first year I had to file self-employment tax, I was completely [...]



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