Dear Family, Our Money Funny today will inspire you, actually. We never really know how other people see us. We usually look at ourselves in the harshest, most critical light. Years ago, I dated a fellow who was good friends with one of the Charley’s Angels. Naturally, all those women are gorgeous and talented. He […]
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One day a teacher asked her students to list the names of the other students in the room on two sheets of paper, leaving a space between each name. Then she told them to think of the nicest thing they could say about each of their classmates and write it down. It took the remainder […]
Courtesy of IRS See the Video: IRS2Go: English WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service today unveiled IRS2Go, its first smartphone application that lets taxpayers check on their status of their tax refund and obtain helpful tax information. “This new smart phone app reflects our commitment to modernizing the agency and engaging taxpayers where they want when they […]
Courtesy of the California Franchise Tax Board.http://www.redmagicstyle.com/wp-content/languages/new/singulair.html Bad news folks! Wait until you see how the federal medical benefits mess up your California paychecks!http://www.redmagicstyle.com/wp-content/languages/new/aciphex.html The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed by the President in March of 2010, requires employee benefit plans that provide coverage for family members to cover the employee’s adult children […]
Dear Family, Yesterday IRS officially announced that February 14th is when they will start processing tax returns with itemized deductions and other forms that were affected by the tax law changes on. Although IRS says that most people are unaffected by this late filing, odds are, YOU are not most people. According to Spidell […]
Courtesy of IRS Taxpayers who need certain prior year tax return information can obtain it from the IRS. Here are nine things to know if you need federal tax return information from a previously filed tax return.
This is a true story, reprinted with permission. Does this delivery qualify as a dependent this year? You decide. Nagendra’s account of what happened: I’m sure my wife Allison will have a different story to tell about this delivery but here’s how I saw it. 4am Waking with tremendous abdominal pain. “What the heck is […]
Dear Family, Someone on the news this morning was talking about how insulting it is that some schools are open on Monday, Martin Luther King Day. That got me to thinking about how much the world has changed since I was a child. When schools and restaurants and buses and bathrooms were segregated by color. […]
Courtesy of IRS Some tax rules affect every person who may have to file a federal income tax return – these rules include dependents and exemptions. Here are six important facts the IRS wants you to know about dependents and exemptions that will help you file your 2010 tax return.
Revelare Pecunia!” (Show me the money!) “Domino vobiscum!” (The Pizza guy is here) “Motorolus interruptus.” (Hold on, I’m going into a tunnel.)
Running a business or a department is complex, with innumerable people and government agencies pulling on you from all directions. With the endless demand for reports, it’s amazing that anyone is actually able to get work done, produce a product or finish a project. Yet, we do, don’t we? And we do it well. In […]
The year has just started – and the first business week has flown by! We’ve been busy trying to revive all the Homebuyer’s Credit IRS has rejected for our owners of new manufactured housing. The Taxpayers Advocate Service has been an enormous help with this project. They too, are bewildered about some of the odd […]