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Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day: My Kids Tell All

24 April 2008

My five year old daughter offers this perspective on my job:
What do I do?
You do taxes and stuff.
What are taxes?
Taxes are faxes.
What are faxes?
The taxes.
What do I do at my job?
Talk, I think. Feed Lyle (that’s our dog). Cook dinnner.
For my job?
Uh-huh.
Do you think my job is interesting?
Umm. No.
What do you [...]

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Extended.

15 April 2008

I am officially extended. No, my hair is the same (are you kidding me? I saw Britney’s extensions at the MTV Awards and have chosen to stay far, far away from fake hair). But I have filed extensions and paid a little cash (just a little) to the feds and to PA.
This [...]

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Ask the taxgirl: More cell phone questions

14 April 2008

Taxpayer asks:
I have a quick question regarding tax deductions. My husband and I are both military. I am National Guard and he is active duty National Guard. It was brought to my attention that we can deduct internet service & cell phone service as a deduction under unreimbursed employee expenses.
The justification is [...]

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Ask the taxgirl: Cell Phone Plan

14 April 2008

Taxpayer asks:
The reader who asked the question (regarding your Feb 28 cell phone deduction post) seemed to presume she’d deduct the cost of the “extra line” (which is usually a minimal cost), but let’s say she was just getting her phones set up from scratch. Could she have given her brother the primary line [...]

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President’s Day – Guess the Tax Quote #1

18 February 2008

Earlier this morning (or late last night, depending on your point of view), I spent a few hours tooling through some presidential quotes to match up with our business channel blogs. You can read the results here.
All of that said, I thought it would be fun to modify that a bit for taxgirl.com. [...]

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Have you finished your taxes yet?

5 February 2008

I am a last minute filer. I am not ashamed of this. My life doesn’t seem to lend itself to advanced filing.
But I was blown away to see that Anne at The Golden Pencil already had her taxes done. That entry was written on February 3. Crazy.
That did, however, inspire my [...]

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The State of Taxes

29 January 2008

So what did President Bush have to say about taxes in his State of the Union speech? The following is an excerpt from the President’s speech:
To build a prosperous future, we must trust people with their own money and empower them to grow our economy. As we meet tonight, our economy is undergoing a [...]

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Do Taxes Affect the Business Climate?

26 November 2007

I think so.
But Jim over at Small Business Boomers begs to differ – and he takes issue with the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council’s criteria. Find out what he thinks matters.
And then I want to know what your own criteria is when deciding where to site your business: taxes? workforce? quality [...]

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Does Wal-Mart want your child to read?

17 October 2007

Wal-Mart is the largest corporation in America, according to Fortune 500. According to Good Jobs First, Wal-Mart recently posted earnings of $350 billion in annual revenue and reported a profit of $11 billion (with a b).
One thing is clear about Wal-Mart: they don’t like to spend money. My mom always said, “That’s how [...]

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