2009 Taxes

Printing Tax Returns TurboTax or TaxCut

Finance Gourmet on April 15th, 2010

Whether you waited until the last minute or filed months ago, there is one last 2009 tax tips and tricks that you need to follow. Print out a copy of your tax return from your TurboTax software or print out your taxes from your TaxCut software, or whatever other tax software program you used to [...]

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Finance Gourmet on March 24th, 2010

Here comes tax time for that huge group of Americans who wait until the proverbial last minute to file their income taxes. For them, crunch time is approaching and they need to find all of those tax receipts and records that they will need in order to file Federal Income Taxes. Fortunately, one of the [...]

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Finance Gourmet on January 21st, 2010

Property taxes can be an important tax deduction for many home owners. Real estate taxes, in particular, can be a significant tax deduction.

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Finance Gourmet on January 19th, 2010

There is an unfortunate amount of confusion surrounding the concept of the Federal Tax Identification Number. It is ironic, because the whole Tax ID, FEIN, and EIN thing is actually very simple, mostly because they are generally all the same thing. However, it isn’t surprising that this concept confused many personal finance students because when [...]

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Updated Information for 2010 179 Deduction Limits for Small Business Taxes has been published. Business tax deductions are important in order to offset high business taxes levied against small business owners and entrepreneurs. Business owners, particularly, single proprietors are often hit with high tax bills because of the Self Employment Taxes. Self-employment taxes, or SE [...]

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A great tax saving strategy, particularly for higher-income taxpayers is to start a small business. Many expenses that are not deductible for regular Federal Income Taxes are deductible to a business. For example, the mileage deduction is not deductible for personal driving purposes, and mileage driving to work is also not deductible. However, mileage driven [...]

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Finance Gourmet on November 10th, 2009

Ah, November, when the American mind turns toward Thanksgiving, Christmas shopping, and strategies to avoid paying too much taxes for 2009. Yes, you should be doing tax planning year round to achieve the maximum savings on taxes, but reality isn’t always so kind. Still, there are some end of year tax moves that are smart [...]

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