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Tackling Those Confusing 1099 And W-2 Changes

27 January 2012

If tax documents arriving now are giving you the mailbox blues, here’s help.

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Ask the taxgirl: I Forgot Schedule M

26 January 2012

Taxpayer asks: I forgot to include the Schedule M with my free e-file. Should I do an amended return or ? Thank you. taxgirl says: Nope. There’s no need to amend because… there is no Schedule M for individual taxpayers for the 2011 tax year. The Schedule M was used to figure the Making Work [...]

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Ask the taxgirl: Form W-2 and Withholding

26 January 2012

Taxpayer asks: If my w2′s for the year are still at single but I am married can I file single or should I file married. Is it true that if my w2′s are at single they are pulling more money and if I file married I’m not getting back what I should? It never dawned [...]

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Tax Horror Stories Giveaway

24 January 2012

Everyone has a story about a tax return gone bad. And this is your chance to turn your bad tax move into a good one… Have a horrible tax filing story? Car break down blocks from the post office? Ran out of paper in the printer? Dog ate your return? Tell me your worst tax [...]

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Tax Talk 2012: Tom Miller

23 January 2012

With South Carolina behind us and Florida looming, we’re firmly in the throes of primary season. I feel strongly that it’s important to understand what it is that each candidate hopes to bring to the table in terms of tax incentives, tax policy and tax proposals. With that in mind, I contacted each of the [...]

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Sunday Mailbag: The Edition Where I Talk About Tax Pros

22 January 2012

I had a great time on Friday with our “Ask the taxgirl LIVE” segment. I know there wasn’t a lot of notice about it and yes, I heard about it (thanks for your emails and messages). This was my first time live blogging on Forbes and we had some technical pieces to work out. That [...]

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Tax Season in Full Swing, E-File Now Open

21 January 2012

It’s cold and snowy out today in [entity display="Philadelphia" type="place" active="true" key="pa/philadelphia"]Philadelphia[/entity] and across much of the country. It’s the kind of day where you really should stay inside and get things done… like maybe your taxes. The IRS previously declared that the 2012 tax season has officially kicked off and this week, the IRS [...]

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Ask the taxgirl LIVE

20 January 2012

Tax season has started which means two things: 1, You have questions; and 2, The IRS is only going to answer 70% of them. So I’m going to take a stab at answering some of your questions LIVE. We’ll give it a whirl via CoverItLive on the blog on January 20, 2012, at 1:00 pm. [...]

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Quelle Horreur! Mitt Romney Pays ‘About 15% Tax Rate’

18 January 2012

Under growing pressure from other GOP candidates, GOP presidential hopeful and frontrunner Mitt Romney has released some limited information about his finances this week. It turns out *gasp* that Romney has done pretty well for himself over the years. But, really, we already knew that . While we don’t know the specifics, Romney’s net worth [...]

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My Best Tax Advice Ever, Part III: Make Friends With a Tax Pro

17 January 2012

So I’m going to let you in on a little secret: I don’t prepare my own tax returns. Completely true. It is how I stay married. You see, I used to prepare my own returns for my business and for my household. And I did just fine for a bit. But then I had three [...]

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