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Rasmussen: 64% Prefer a Government With Fewer Services And Lower Taxes
2012-05-22 19:24:00 Says the polling firm: Most voters continue to prefer a more hands-off government in return for lower taxes. A new Reports national telephone survey finds that 64% of Likely U.S. Voters prefer a government with fewer services and lower taxes over one with more services and higher taxes. That’s unchanged from last month and consistent with findings in regular surveys since late 2006. Just 25% prefer a government with more services. Eleven percent (11%) are not sure which size government they prefer. (To see survey question wording, click here.) So does anyone still think Obama would lose to a real conservative, assuming the GOP had the actual courage to run one in a Presidential race? How this will play in a race between socialist and liberal lite, remains a question, however.
By: BitsBlog
Facebook co-founder gave up his U.S. citizenship to evade taxes
2012-05-11 23:27:00 For most immigrants, the day they achieve U.S. citizenship is one of the most momentous in their lives. It's a long, arduous process to get there, involving years of residency, study of our nation's history, and the swearing an oath of ? Continue reading ?
Flying to Europe This Summer? Not with these Tickets Prices, Fees and Taxes
2012-05-07 00:47:00 England is holding a party this year for the Queen’s Jubilee as well as the Olympics. They might want you to come but they are not being particularly inviting right now. If ... No related posts.
3 Dividend Stocks that Are as Reliable as Death and Taxes
2012-05-02 19:00:00 "The only certainties in life are death and taxes." Everyone's familiar with this old adage. Given the uncertainty of this economic recovery, wouldn't it be nice to have an investment that is equally as reliable? The good news is income investors can come pretty close to this and lock in predictable returns by owning stocks of companies that operate in these fields — death and … [visit site to read . . . → Read More: 3 Dividend Stocks that Are as Reliable as Death and Taxes
By: Jutia Group
New York state sues Sprint for more than $300 million over taxes
2012-04-19 18:14:00 (Reuters) - The state of New York on Thursday sued Sprint Nextel Corp for more than $300 million, accusing the company of tax fraud for deliberately not collecting or paying millions of dollars of taxes for its cell phone service. Sprint, the third-biggest U.S. mobile service provider, failed to bill customers for more than $100 million in taxes for its wireless services over seven years, according to New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. ...
Protect Yourself From Fraud While Filing Taxes
2012-04-18 04:48:00 Identity theft complaints rose to more than 11 million last year, and tax-related scams have increased by over 700% since 2008. Two million fraudulent tax returns were filed in 2011 alone, at a cost of two billion dollars. Common scams include: Double filing: If you receive a notification from the IRS informing you that multiple tax ...
Taxes push some Americans to take a hike
2012-04-18 01:15:00 Last year, almost 1,800 people renounced their U.S. citizenship or handed in their Green Cards.
Mitt Romney?s Tax Plan Is Still a Mathematical Failure
2012-04-17 20:46:00 Apr 16 2012, 6:42 PM ET The Atlantic Matthew O’Brien The last time we checked in on Mitt Romney’s tax plan, the numbers didn’t add up. Actually, there weren’t any numbers to add up. Instead, there was a not very plausible promise to make the numbers add up at a later date. At stake was ...
By: Suzie-Q
Mitt Romney: I Am Not A Tax Crook!
2012-04-17 20:12:00 Daily Kos Mon Apr 16, 2012 at 11:50 AM PDT by- Jed Lewison Mitt Romney’s campaign explainswhy he doesn’t need to release any more tax returns than the one year’s worth he’s already disclosed: Mitt Romney has been scrupulous about observing the requirements of the tax code. His income is reported and taxed in full ...
By: Suzie-Q
Taxes Prompt More Americans to Renounce Citizenship
2012-04-17 13:39:00 “‘Truth, justice, and the American way’ ? it’s not enough anymore,” the comic book superhero said, after both the Iranian and American governments criticized him for joining a peaceful anti-government protest in Tehran. Last year, almost 1,800 people followed Superman’s lead, renouncing their U.S. citizenship or handing in their Green Cards. That’s a record number ...
File your taxes and learn how to check your oil too!
2012-04-17 00:10:00 I have filed my income taxes. Federal. Check. State. Check. In fact, I have recieved my refunds. I still haven’t cashed the $26 dollar one from good old Land of Lincoln.. but I will. Just waiting for the perfect vacation destination spot. My daughter, on the other hand, hasn’t filed her state taxes yet. She... Read more »
Enjoy the extra day to file your taxes? Thank Abraham Lincoln
2012-04-16 16:00:00 Americans are enjoying a brief tax holiday this year?filings are not due until April 17?and credit for the postponement goes to an unexpected hero: none other than Abraham Lincoln.
Preparing for the Income Tax Deadline (2011-2012): Personal Taxes
2012-04-15 13:30:00 Income Tax Deadline With the income tax deadline just around the corner for tax year 2011, which is April 30, 2012, it’s time to start thinking about what’s required to file. If you are a small business owner, you have until June 15th to file, but any taxes owning must be paid by April 30th. If ...
Obamas and Bidens to Release Tax Returns
2012-04-13 20:08:00 The New York Times By MARK LANDLER and JIM RUTENBERG Published: April 13, 2012 WASHINGTON ? Punctuating a week of political assaults on Mitt Romney over taxes, President Obama and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. plan to release their own income tax returns on Friday, along with a statement calling on Mr. Romney to ...
By: Suzie-Q
One more way to save on taxes (and help a child in the process)
2012-04-12 15:30:00 Okay, we’re really getting down to the wire now, with just one week left to file your taxes on time. This year you actually have until April 17th because the 15th falls on a Sunday and the 16th is Emancipation Day, a holiday that is celebrated in Washington, D.C. But still, we’re talking a matter of days left. And yet I have one more way for you to keep additional money away from Uncle Sam while helping a kid in your life. It’s called a Coverdell ESA, and it shares a lot in common with some of the other tax shelters I’ve been telling you about in recent columns. Only this . . . → Read More: One more way to save on taxes (and help a child in the process)
By: Jutia Group
No, Mr. President, Ronald Reagan didn?t campaign on raising taxes
2012-04-04 00:00:00 Well, you can’t accuse Barack Obama of originality. Today, the incumbent President of the United States trotted out that old Democratic talking point that Ronald Reagan “could not get through a Republican primary today.” The Democrat uses that silly notion as he lambastes his partisan rivals for their supposed unwillingness to compromise: These are solvable ...
By: GayPatriot
Hiring a CPA for Our Taxes
2012-04-03 14:22:00 For years, I have done our tax returns myself using tax preparation software from Intuite or H&R Block. The reason for not using a CPA for our taxes wasn’t about a few hundred dollars we have saved by filing our taxes ourself, but that with software tools like TurboTax and TaxCut, I felt that we ...Original Post on www.thesunsfinancialdiary.com Special Promotional OffersScottrade 3 Commission Free TradesChase Sapphire Preferred Card 50,000 Bonus PointsChase Freedom Card $200 BonusCiti ThankYou Premier Card $655 BonusCiti Dividend Select Platinum Card $100 BonusCitibank Checking Account $100 Bonus Promotion Hiring a CPA for Our Taxes
Are these deductible on fed/state taxes?
2012-03-31 22:17:00 Just wondering... can we deduct the cost of our cell phones and monthly cell phone bills if we are a landlord? We also have 2 properties in TX with a very reliable & responsible (I know she's the exception to the rule) property manager in place. We also use the cells for other calls as well. Last year, I was able to deduct the cost of the cells/monthly costs for another business I had that we closed earlier this year, so the question never came up about the property stuff. I'd call our tax person about this but they're overwhelmed so I thought someone here might know. Thanks from Cali.
Will Obama move to hike taxes (on middle class) when he has ?more flexibili
2012-03-28 04:02:00 Yesterday in speaking to Russian President Dmitri Medvedev, President Obama said that after his “election” he’d “have more flexibility” on missile defense, but Jennifer Rubin wonders if he’d also have more flexibility on other issues as well: . . . is there anyone who thinks Obama, should he get a second term, wouldn?t run wild ...
By: GayPatriot
If You Own Dividend Stocks and Are Worried About Taxes, Then Read This?
2012-03-12 13:30:00 I recently shared an important piece of news with readers of my High-Yield Investing newsletter that I think every dividend investor should know about. Last month, President Barack Obama tabled his $3.8 trillion budget for the 2013 fiscal year starting this October 1. The budget proposes $1.7 trillion in new revenue over the next 10 years, in part by ending Bush-era tax cuts for "wealthy" individuals making more than $200,000 in income and households earning more than $250,000 a year. That's nothing new. In a recent article, I talked about what Obama was proposing when tax cuts approved under George W. Bush expire at the end of this year. What is new, however, is that for . . . → Read More: If You Own Dividend Stocks and Are Worried About Taxes, Then Read This…
By: Jutia Group
Which are the fairest taxes?
2012-03-06 14:09:00 There is a very curious debate going on in Britain at the moment in (mainly) Tory circles about whether Income or Wealth taxes are preferable. For example see this article from Tory polemicist Tim Montgomerie and the graphic reproduced here that argue that Wealth taxes are (comparatively) good whilst Income Taxes are bad. Now I ...
Proof Positive
2012-03-02 01:48:00 While reading about the Condom-in-Chief’s current contraceptive diversion, his latest lies behind soaring gas prices and masterful apology to Muslim extremists for the destruction of a few already-desecrated Korans … I came across this reply to some article or other in the Washington Times. I believe it sums up the span of time between 2008 ...
By: RSF America
Chris Tucker Owes $12 Million in Taxes?
2012-02-23 04:22:00 Rush Hour actor Chris Tucker recently sold two of his extravagant homes to help pay off $11 million in back taxes, but that’s only made a dent. The state of Georgia has now also filed a tax complaint against the comedian for unfiled taxes in 2007, raising his debts another half a million bucks. Tucker originally owed ...
Must only the rich pay their ?fair share? (of taxes)?
2012-01-23 20:02:00 Democrats often talk about hiking taxes on the rich so they pay their “fair share“. So what about the 47% who currently don’t pay any federal taxes? Is their fair share zero?
By: GayPatriot
May I Have This Dance?
2012-01-05 16:19:00 Mitt Romney is Saturday night’s date on Friday afternoon. Scarcely a day goes by that I don’t hear someone wonder why Romney can’t break the 25% barrier in polls … or why he couldn’t gain ground on his 2008 Iowa numbers, despite spending millions of dollars to barely eke out a 2012 win. Remember back in ...
By: RSF America
Tax Due Dates for January 2012
2012-01-04 18:02:00 Tax Due Dates for January 2012 is a post originally published on: Everything Finance - Everything Finance - A Good Personal Finance Blog - Its all about Money!January 10 Employees - who work for tips. If you received $20 or more in tips during December, report them to your employer. You can use Form 4070, Employee’s Report of Tips to Employer. January 17 Employers - Social Security, Medicare, and withheld income tax. If the monthly deposit rule applies, deposit the tax for payments in ...Get a free mortgage quote!
Finding an Accountant if You Are a Blogger
2012-01-04 06:06:00 Finding an Accountant if You Are a Blogger is a post originally published on: Everything Finance - Everything Finance - A Good Personal Finance Blog - Its all about Money!If you are a blogger, you may have started your very first blog just to get your thoughts down and hope that someone, somewhere would read. Maybe at first, you only had a handful of visitors, perhaps many of them family members. However, little by little, through networking effort on your part, your little blog ...Get a free mortgage quote!
What To Do If You Owe Taxes but Don?t Have the Money to Pay
2011-12-28 06:24:00 What To Do If You Owe Taxes but Don’t Have the Money to Pay is a post originally published on: Everything Finance - Everything Finance - A Good Personal Finance Blog - Its all about Money!Every year, the deadline for Americans to file taxes is April 15th (unless the day falls on a weekend, then the deadline will be extended by a few days). Yet, year after year many Americans scramble to pay their tax bill. Even if you file an extension to submit your taxes, you are still responsible ...Get a free mortgage quote!
Do You Need to Pay a Nanny Tax This Year?
2011-12-21 05:20:00 Do You Need to Pay a Nanny Tax This Year? is a post originally published on: Everything Finance - Everything Finance - A Good Personal Finance Blog - Its all about Money!In today?s fast-paced society, more and more busy professionals are relying on others to help them with their child care, house cleaning and lawn maintenance. Many of these service professionals are paid in cash throughout the year, but what happens come tax time? If you hire someone to come to your home and help you ...Get a free mortgage quote!
H & R Block Opt Not to Offer Refund Anticipation Loans This Tax Season
2011-12-14 06:47:00 H & R Block Opt Not to Offer Refund Anticipation Loans This Tax Season is a post originally published on: Everything Finance - Everything Finance - A Good Personal Finance Blog - Its all about Money! In 2010, H & R Block was the leading provider of refund anticipation loans (RALs). These loans are provided by a tax preparation company after they have filed a consumer?s taxes and essentially ?loan? the consumer their own tax refund in return for the consumer to pay hefty interest rate of approximately 24%. There is ...Get a free mortgage quote!
10 Ways You Might Want To Use Your Tax Refund
2011-12-07 06:10:00 10 Ways You Might Want To Use Your Tax Refund is a post originally published on: Everything Finance - Everything Finance - A Good Personal Finance Blog - Its all about Money!Despite the complaints about high taxes, tax rates are low. According to the non-partisan Tax Policy Center, ?In 2009, roughly 47% of households, or 71 million, will not owe and federal income tax.? There aren?t statistics available, but I would love to know how many people simply get their refund and spend it all on ...Get a free mortgage quote!
Investors: Lower Your Taxes ? Here?s How
2011-11-29 16:11:00 We’re in the back stretch of 2011, which bodes well for folks contemplating some tax related moves. Here are some suggestions you may want to put into your own arsenal. Though basic in nature, I’ve learned most tax preparers definitely aren’t proactive in digging for tax savings beyond the normal deductions. You’ll notice a common ...This Article is Copyright © 2004-2011 BiggerPockets, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Investors: Lower Your Taxes – Here’s How
Increase Cash Flow by Appealing Your Property Taxes
2011-11-17 14:52:00 For most of the last decade, property tax assessments increased year over year with the rate of appreciation. Local municipalities structured their annual budgets around projected increases in revenue from gradual hikes in property assessments. Much like real estate appreciation, you could bank on property taxes increasing to keep pace. However, in 2008 as the ...This Article is Copyright © 2004-2011 BiggerPockets, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Increase Cash Flow by Appealing Your Property Taxes
Odds are you need to appeal your Cook County property taxes
2011-11-01 14:34:00 After seeing just how inaccurate Zillow’s home price estimates are it occurred to me that property taxes suffer from the same problem – i.e. wildly inaccurate home value estimates are resulting in thousands of people overpaying in property taxes and thousands of others paying far too little. If you want to get excited about financial... Read more »
Why GM Wants You to Pay More Taxes at the Pump
2011-10-23 03:00:00 Editor's note: This article originally appeared on our sister website, InvestingAnswers.com. Back in early June, the CEO of GM (NYSE: GM) suggested the United States should hike gasoline taxes by $1 a gallon. Predictably, conservatives and liberals alike were infuriated by the suggestion. For conservatives, such a large tax hike would be seen as just another government grab for workers' hard-earned dollars. Liberals felt that sharply-increased gasoline taxes would hit the poor the hardest, not only because it would take a larger bite of their already limited discretionary income, but also because the poor are the ones least likely to be driving late model fuel-efficient cars. So what was GM's CEO thinking? Higher gas . . . → Read More: Why GM Wants You to Pay More Taxes at the Pump
By: Jutia Group
Polling The ?Occupy? Marxists
2011-10-21 07:45:00 If you’re ready believe the unruly mob disrupting Wall Street shares anything in common with the Tea Party, you need a sobering cup of reality. Oh, most of them, surprisingly, walk upright but they couldn’t be more opposite in every other way. Democrat pollster Douglas Schoen is among the first to have polled a meaningful ...
By: RSF America
By Any Other Name
2011-09-15 21:54:00 Barry ‘Never met a tax I didn’t like’ Obama is whining his way around the country saying really presidential things like, “If you love me, you’ll pass this bill” and talking about 153 bridges that are structurally unsound … although he’s letting unsuspecting travelers figure out which ones they are. By the way, weren’t these ...
By: RSF America
Do not let the Chicago school board raise our property taxes
2011-08-08 01:25:00 Do not let the Chicago school board raise our property taxes. To plug a hole in what experts are calling their unsustainable spending, the Chicago School Board is going to raise property taxes to the maximum level allowed by law. This would mean an 84 dollar increase on the average home. The small amount is...
Traveler?s in USA Pay Outragous Taxes
2011-07-27 03:21:00 Thanks for coming, now pay up! By Rob Lovitt, msnbc.com contributor Travel taxes ? can?t live with ?em, can?t escape ?em. That?s the upshot of a just-released report from the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) showing that travelers to the top 50 destination cities in the U.S. pay an average of 56 percent above and ...Travel Lady Cruises, always providing you with TLC!Traveler’s in USA Pay Outragous Taxes
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Fuel Economy vs. Fuel Taxes ? Which Will Do More?
2011-07-20 03:14:00 Here’s an interesting question: which is more likely to make you use less fuel, forcing you to buy a more fuel efficient vehicle or forcing you to pay a much, much higher fuel tax? This is sort of a relevant question because there is news that the Obama administration is considering raising fuel economy standards ...
The Day the Town Went Dry
2011-07-13 21:26:00 No booze, more hookers and a license fee to own a cat: Weird tales from cash-strapped state and local governments. Plus... Bernanke dangles the lure of QE3, Dow bites with a 150-point rally -- and the show goes on.
New French Property Taxes in 2012
2011-05-23 11:39:00 One of the new tax proposals effective from January 2012 in France is a new 20% tax on the rental value of SECOND homes for ANY nationality. The tax will be 20% of the property’s “valeur locative cadastrale” (a theoretical value). You can find this value at www.cadastre.gouv.fr. So if a property has a rental ...
Your Taxes Paying Government Union Members NOT to Work
2011-04-21 18:47:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Must be nice to be a government worker in a government union. Heck, some of these government union guys are even paid not to work and paid by the taxpayers to do so, yet! Vincent Vernuccio, labor policy guy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, tells us that the Obama administration is even ignoring its responsibility to report on the matter. Obama is over a year late in releasing its Time Usage in the Federal Government Report, a report that tracks all the time that government union members spend working for the union bosses on the dime of the people....
DuPage County property values down, taxes up
2011-04-20 17:55:00 You might be thinking that you'll be able to lower the property tax bill on a home you're planning to buy in, say, Naperville based on the fact that you're buying the home for 30% less than it sold for 4 years ago. Think again. According to this Daily Herald article, the average tax rate for DuPage County's 372 taxing bodies (schools, municipalities, park districts, etc.) increased by 11.6% as a result of increased spending. The increased spending will translate to a 5.7% increase on the average real estate tax bill, despite the fact that the total value of DuPage properties decreased by 5.9% - the first drop in 40 years. If you're buying a home in DuPage, budget an...
Taxes For 2011: Pay Less Starting Now
2011-04-20 03:31:00 The deadline to pay 2010 taxes has passed. What can you do now to lower your 2011 tax bill? Learn tax tips regarding money market funds, retirement plan contributions, donating stock to charity, and more.
Rep. Peter Roskam: High Taxes Have Consequences
2011-03-31 16:00:00 -By Illinois Congressman Peter Roskam, GOP Chief Deputy Whip Note: Caterpillar CEO Doug Oberhelman will testify before the Ways & Means Trade Subcommittee today. Illinois and other states have recently made headlines for their declining populations. Whether they realize it or not, what states like Illinois are learning the hard way is that over-taxing and over-regulating has consequences. And Illinois is now learning that one painful consequence is job loss. Caterpillar, a Fortune 500 company that employs 23,000 workers in Illinois, currently finds itself dealing with a new tax increase in an already over-taxed state. Their CEO, Doug Oberhelman, sent a warning shot on March 21st with a letter to Illinois' new Democrat Governor Pat Quinn:...
TIMELY DATA: The Challenge: Visualize Your Taxes from DataVizChallenge.org
2011-02-25 17:59:00 How timely--just look at where all those tax dollars are going. Oh, and just in case you missed the irony, there's a reason we pay taxes in April and vote in November, so try not to forget these numbers next time you cast your ballot. The Challenge: Visualize how your individual federal income taxes are spent. We give you the numbers; you make them speak to us. Our jury will be awarding $10,000, including $5,000 for the top submission. Click ?get started? to learn more about the challenge, view an example, and get the data. This challenge was created by Eyebeam and Google, with data provided by WhatWePayFor.com. Banner visualization shows 2010 income taxes on $50,000, divided into major budget categories. via datavizchallenge.org
Now THERE'S Chutzpah: Obama Claims He hasn't Raised Taxes?
2011-02-08 18:30:00 -By Warner Todd Huston John Kartch over at Americans for Tax Reform found President Obama's claim that he hasn't raised taxes a bit, shall we say, quixotic. At one point in the interview with Obama conducted by Fox News' Bill O'Reilly and shown on Sunday, Obama stated bald faced that he didn't do so. The truth seems to be a different animal, however. Employing his best preacher's alliterative mode by repeating it twice, Obama told O'Reilly, "I didn't raise taxes once. I lowered taxes over the last two years. I lowered taxes for the last two years." But did he hold the line on taxes? Kartch shows that Obama's claim does not hold water. In fact, "just sixteen days into...
Even Californians Oppose Raising Taxes to Balance the Budget
2011-01-17 11:09:00 According to a poll which has been shown to Governor Brown, a significant majority of our fellow Californians oppose increasing taxes to balance the state’s budget: “Asked whether they’d prefer ‘less government and lower taxes’ or ‘slightly higher taxes for better government services,’ 57% opted for lower taxes.“ This “voter survey,” according to the Los ...
By: GayPatriot
Illinois: Death by Taxes
2011-01-14 07:00:00 -By Dan Proft During the Illinois General Assembly's lame duck session, Democrat leaders have moved to abolish the death penalty at the same time as signing the economic death warrant for state's economy. In Illinois, it is law-abiding, working families who have been condemned. Despite lllinois' leading exports being its residents and businesses, the General Assembly has proposed raising the state income and corporate income taxes by 75% each. If this tax monster passes, at least two things are certain: one, Illinois businesses would pay the highest corporate income taxes in the free world; two, Illinois would see the largest mass exodus of productive people since the Israelites fled Egypt.... |
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