Twitter Tax Tips #14
About an hour and a half left to file your corporate extensions. If you’re stuck, try @filelater #TwitterTaxTip ** that’s filelater.com for you non-Twitter types! (For more on twitter tax tips, see my prior explanatory post.)
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Taxgirl: I’m On The Radio!
I’m on the radio tonight! You can catch me on the Big Dumb Fun Show. The show is on tonight from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. CST. I’ll be on around 7:45 p.m. CST. I’m pretty excited… Stay tuned!
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Ask The Taxgirl: Social Security Overpayments
Taxpayer asks: Hi, I work for a company and am currently deployed to Iraq. I had met the Social Security Cap for withholding mid 2008 and mid year was transferred to our subsidiary. They again withheld my Social Security to the Cap so in effect I paid double the amount I should have. Can I…
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It’s The Refund Meme! And This Time, You Can Win Big!
It’s the refund meme! Here are the questions: 1, If you could do whatever you wanted, how would YOU spend an income tax refund? 2, Is that the same or different from how you actually plan to spend it? (Psst, you can say that you’re not getting one – that’s a valid answer.) And there’s…
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Ask The Taxgirl: Firefighter Meals
Taxpayer asks: I am a Fire Fighter. We work a 24 hour shift with no designated time (or time off) for meals. Therefore, we take lunch, supper, etc when ever possible between calls. They are often interupted to perform our job. My question: do these circumstances make us eligible for standard deductions (per dium) rates…
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Twitter Tax Tips #13
Filling out those tourney brackets? Remember that your winnings (and all gambling winnings) are taxable! #TwitterTaxTip (For more on twitter tax tips, see my prior explanatory post.)
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Castroneves Not The Only DWTS Contestant With Tax Issues
Oh, what would Biggie think? His former protege, Lil’ Kim (real name: Kimberly Denise Jones), has been trying to reinvent herself following a stint in federal prison in 2005. Kim was found guilty of conspiracy and perjury for lying to a grand jury about a 2001 shooting outside the Hot 97 studios in Manhattan and…
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Tax Trivia: TV Audit
We have a winner! See comments! Our last tax trivia question is (though we’re still waiting for a winner on the other one!): In what popular TV show does the star of the show get turned into the IRS for audit by a neighbor, who justified it by saying: But you know he deserved it….
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Making Work Pay Credit Could Surprise Some Taxpayers In 2010
Note from Taxgirl: I’ve written a few pieces about the credit since this piece originally posted. Many of the questions and comments related to this post can be answered by checking out this updated post about sorting out the credit. You can find out more about calculating the credit here. As of April 1, many…
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“Stimulus” Ads On Facebook, Other Sites Do Not Ring True
If it seems too good to be true, it probably is. Keep that adage in mind this tax season. There are a number of scams floating about which purport to get you more cash, faster. You should keep in mind that the government doesn’t use “middle men” to get you a refund faster or to…
