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Personal Finance > Tax Update

Making sure you get that year-end deduction

| Tue, 12/22/2009 - 5:31pm | filing your taxes, tax deductions, tax filing, tax tips, year-end deductions |  3 comments

When you're spending money to get a tax deduction for your business by the end of the year, you might as well make sure the deduction will hold up when your friendly neighborhood IRS agent comes calling.  If you're a cash-basis taxpayer - if you aren't sure, check your busin ... Read the f ... Read more

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They'll pretend to take care of you and pretend it's free

| Wed, 11/11/2009 - 9:45am | Government healthcare, health care reform, healthcare reform, public healthcare |  Add a comment

TaxGrrrl asks a good question : Notwithstanding public options and other controversial parts of the health care reform bill, the real issue that remains of concern to many is how the plan is going to be paid for… In addition to the 40% tax on those Cadillac plans proposed by the Senate ... R ... Read more

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Happy St. Patricks Day!

| Wed, 03/17/2010 - 6:30pm |  Add a comment

Behave. Or be careful. ... Read the full post ... Read more

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Lessons in non-profit governance

| Tue, 03/16/2010 - 11:30am |  Add a comment

Note to members of non-profit boards: if your executives don't want you to talk with the outside auditors, that's a really, really bad sign. Yet that's what happened at the Iowa Association of School Boards, the entity that runs Skills Iowa, "a special project by Sen. Tom Harkin," according to ... Read more

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Gourmet Mini Cinnamon Rolls Tax Carnival!

| Tue, 03/16/2010 - 9:50am |  Add a comment

It's almost St. Patricks Day! Technically, today is St. Meningaud's Day , but most taverns don't offer specials for him. While you prepare to get your Irish on tomorrow, get yourself in shape at Kay Bell's new Carnival of Taxes! ... Read the full post ... Read more

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Remember: stuff is due today!

| Mon, 03/15/2010 - 9:54am |  Add a comment

Today is March 15. That means tax returns, or at least extensions, are due today for calendar year corporations. A few things to keep in mind: - If you extend your return filing date to September 15, you get another six months to make your 2009 pension and profit sharing contributions . - ... Read more

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Michigan is a strange state

| Sat, 03/13/2010 - 11:31am |  Add a comment

At least it is based on this information from a taxpayer, as passed on by a colleague: As an FYI... we have a client who filed their MI Business Tax return this summer and still has not received their refund. They called the MI department of Treasury and this is the answer they were given: ... Read more

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Spending run through a tax return is still spending

| Fri, 03/12/2010 - 11:00am |  Add a comment

Iowa's legislative Democrats have floated a proposal to cut back on state tax credit. Their effort, HSB 738 , would lower the limits on some credits, suspend the scandal-ridden film credit, and form an oversight committee to ignore the credits until the next scandal monitor and evaluate the cred ... Read more

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Don't give them any ideas

| Fri, 03/12/2010 - 9:38am |  Add a comment

Subsidize them and they will come : Sen. Herman Quirmbach, D-Ames, an Iowa State University economics professor, said he sees no way to fix the film tax credit under a suspension that would make it pay. “So many states have tried this in various ways and there seems to be broad-based fai ... Read more

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Still futile after all these years

| Fri, 03/12/2010 - 9:27am |  Add a comment

I'd think twice about getting tax advice from somebody whose web site looked like this: Yet people still came to Carel Prater to buy quack advice about using the " Section 861 argument " that U.S.-source income is nontaxable. The injunction pictured above said Mr. Prater wasn't supposed t ... Read more

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