Keeping a consistent and clear record of your business expenditures is not only good business practice; it will also ensure you to receive the full amount of tax deductibles to which you are entitled. If you use your car for your business, it is extremely crucial for you to keep a clear record of the mileages you drive for your business each time you use it.
Recently, a self-employed individual was
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In an effort to bring more tax evaders to the surface, the IRS has issued a new voluntary offshore compliance initiative in March of 2009, which provides more lenient penalties for tax evaders who have placed their assets overseas. In this initiative, taxpayers who voluntarily disclose their wrongdoings will only be punished with paying back taxes, certain penalties, and interest. Those who come forward will not face criminal charges unless
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The Bush tax cuts were brought up in a recent interview with Frank Pastore on KKLA. I also happened to mention them in a previous post about John McCain and Barack Obama’s proposed tax cuts and economic plans.
In order to make the current economic situation easier to understand it is important to review the Bush tax cuts and share some U.S. economy history.  The main Bush tax cut act originated
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Economic stimulus payments have started going out and according to the IRS, nearly 130 million payments will go out this year, via direct deposit and paper checks.
The IRS has posted Stimulus FAQs to answer a variety of questions on the payment schedule and amounts, factors affecting direct deposit of payments and the eligibility requirements.
If you filed early enough to have your return processed by April 15, and you still haven’t
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Due to Congressional concerns over the growing gap between taxes that should have been collected and taxes that were actually collected, the IRS is moving to reallocate its budget resources. Ultimately, this will be evidenced by a significant increase in IRS personnel and potentially third party collection agencies dedicated to support tax compliance and collection efforts. Recent IRS collection initiatives are yielding increases in both levies and tax revenues collected.
On
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