Today’s Tax Resolution Tip:
Remember to sign and date your tax return! This may sound basic, but in the midst of finalizing one’s return the basics are often overlooked! If you’re filing a joint tax return, both you and your spouse have to sign. (Both must sign even if only one spouse had income during the tax year.) If you paid anyone to help prepare your return, they must sign also!
Don’t
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When making donations to charitable causes it is always a great idea to document the donation properly which can later be used as tax relief in the form of a deduction.  Another important step is to check whether or not the charity you are contributing to is actually tax-exempt to begin with.
Last week the IRS released its list of approximately 275,000 organizations that have lost their tax exemption status.  According
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Today’s Tax Resolution Tip:
Quick tax lessons: The Statute of Limitations are laws regarding IRS timings:
- The IRS have 3 years to issue a refund to consumers
- The IRS have 3 years to audit your tax return
- The IRS have 10 years to collect any tax due from consumers
Find our more about the Statute of Limitations and expiration of back taxes. For more tax help, check out our tax relief FAQs and keep
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Today’s Tax Resolution Tip:
If you are a home-based business owner, here’s a tax tip that is particularly relevant to you. Tracking your expenses is essential, especially if you are audited by the IRS. Save at least one copy of each and every transaction and/or deduction as proof in case of audit.
Visit our audit FAQ page for more information on IRS tax audits, including how to avoid them and survive an IRS
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Today’s Tax Resolution Tip:
Don’t be old-fashioned! Paying in cash is not the best option when it comes to taxes. Maximize your tax redeductions by using checks and credit cards for record-keeping. The IRS are happy to accept a cancelled check or credit card receipt as appropriate methods of keeping track of your expenses.
For more tax relief advice visit our Tax Help Articles and keep up with 365 Ways to Keep the
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Today’s Tax Resolution Tip:
Make the most out of your iPhone by combining good tax practices. The easiest way to maintain good mileage records is via your mileage log in your car or why not try the new iPhone app: automilez. This application stores mileage logs after each and every trip. The app is free for download from the Apple store, so get logging and make your tax mileage deductions easy
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Today’s Tax Resolution Tip:
While we all experience the joy of Jury Duty at some point, not many consumers are aware of the tax implications when you take time off for jury duty. It is common for employers to pay the full salary of employees while they serve on jury duty. However some employers require the employees to ‘turn over’ jury duty pay received to the organization.
The IRS requires that
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Today’s Tax Resolution Tip:
Staying organized! Organization is important, and when it comes to taxes keeping track of your expenses is no different. With summer in full swing, make sure you’re keeping all receipts (business lunch anyone?). Scanning in your receipts is one way to keep on top of tax season. You can use products like ‘Neat Receipt‘ or even scanning receipts with your smart phone. The IRS has accepted scanned
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As we all know by now, the IRS has increased its level of scrutiny of tax payers and audits are increasing. Lara Saunders (Wall Street Journal) wrote an article called Rich Are Targeted in IRS Audit Offensive addressing how the wealthy are being audited at a rate double or triple what was seen in the previous decade.
According to Saunder’s article the wealthiest Americans are being targeted increasingly by the IRS
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Summer is here and with it comes the summer jobs for teenagers and young adults often on break from school.  In a recent article by Lara Saunders for the Wall Street Journal titled The Real World:Tax Tips for Summer Workers tax tips and traps are outlined for parents and young people with summer jobs. Here are a few of the important highlights directly from the article:
• Know your status. Young
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Today’s Tax Resolution Tip:
Tax rules regarding spouses are changing. Check out the article, A New Push To Protect Spouses recently posted on the Wall Street Journal. The rules for protecting spouses from their partner’s tax wrong doings do not always work. At the moment, both Congress and the IRS are rethinking them. If you’re a spouse, make sure you’re in the loop! You need to be aware of your rights.
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This month’s edition of tax help news covering the latest in all things tax. Here are some of the interesting tax stories we’ve Stumble(d)Upon. Highlights include, offshore accounts crackdown, an inspiring new novel on how to bounce back from tax debt you didn’t even know you had and great commentary on taxing non-profits, IRS’s Wealth Squad and the tax ‘game’.
Offshore Tax Crackdown Scorecard: UBS, Credit Suisse, HSBC – The IRS is serious
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Attention all consumers with undisclosed offshore bank accounts: now is the time to act if you want to reduce your IRS penalties!
Due to the highly successful voluntary disclosure program last year, the IRS re-launched their offshore bank account amnesty program for 2011, due to expire in August.
I’m taking this opportunity while we still have some time to urge consumers with undisclosed foreign bank accounts to hurry and take advantage of
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I am very excited to announce that the Stevie Awards has named me as a finalist for the Executive of the Year in 2011!
Started in 2002, the Stevie Awards has been honoring and generating public recognition of the accomplishments and positive contributions of the companies and business people worldwide each year.
Other finalists for Executive of the Year include Maryann Von Seggern of Cisco, Talbott Roche from Blackhawk Network, and Michael
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Tax scams are vicious. Aside from the unethical motives that drive a firm to pose as a tax relief agency and target consumers who are in tax debt, stressed out and unsure where to turn for advise, it is downright low. Unfortunately tax relief scams are a common topic these days. With the increasing number of fraudulent ‘tax relief’ firms out there, there is a growing need to fight back
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