It’s Back To School Week on the blog! All week long, I’ll be answering your questions about school and tax – complete with fun giveaways. Next up: tips on claiming charitable deductions for donating school supplies, backpacks and more.
State sales tax holidays are back just in time for back to school shopping.
I can’t believe that folks are already talking about back to school… With all of the snow this year, I feel like my kids just got out of school! But my niece is reporting that she’s starting next week (early, I know) and my inbox is filled with emails from Lands End reminding me to…
One of the most popular questions I see around this time of year is whether you can deduct the cost of: school uniforms for public, private or parochial school band uniforms and instruments athletic team uniforms school supplies field trips fill-in-the-blank school expense that is sucking money out of my wallet The short answer is…
Earlier this week, I headed off to the store with school supply check list in hand. Boy, how things have changed since I was a kid. Tops on my list? Latex-free erasers. Pencils with latex-free erasers. Pencil sharpener together with Ziploc bag. The list went on and on. Shopping went pretty well until we hit…