Income Tax

Tax Due Date 2012

Finance Gourmet on April 5th, 2012

Taxes for 2011 are almost due. As always, the IRS tax filing deadline for 2012 is April 15th, only it isn’t. April 15th is a Sunday and taxes are not due on weekends, especially Sundays. You don’t expect government bureaucrats to work on the weekend, do you? Not to mention, you can’t get a postmark [...]

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Finance Gourmet on November 23rd, 2010

Here comes the end of the year! (Yikes, already?) As 2010 draws to a close, it is time for the annual publishing of the end of year tax tips articles. Or, for the mainstream media, it’s time to re-publish pretty much the same thing that was published last year, rehashing the same old annual tax [...]

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Finance Gourmet on October 9th, 2010

The questions have started coming in regarding the 2011 income limits for Roth IRA contributions. Planning ahead for taxes is always a good idea. However, sometimes, you can get out a little bit too far. The IRS publishes various numbers, tax brackets, and the like for the next tax year during the fall of the [...]

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As the end of the year races toward us, the opportunities to find and take advantage of tax deductions and loopholes to save money on income taxes are growing scarce. Fortunately, there are still plenty of tax saving strategies that you can implement even with just a few weeks to go until the end of [...]

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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 December 29th, 2008

Here they come.  Articles, columns, emails, and websites by the dozens (hundreds? thousands?) each offering tax advice in the guise of tips and tricks while actually offering up nothing more than the same old retread of a supposed gold mine of tax savings. This is the true, cold, hard fact: There is virtually nothing you [...]

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Finance Gourmet on May 25th, 2008

The U.S. Supreme Court in a 7-2 decision upheld the central tenant of most state’s municipal bond tax policy, specifically that a state can exempt it’s own muni bonds from taxes while taxing the interest on other state’s muni bonds. So, nothing changes from before. If you live in California, the only way to avoid [...]

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