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Find Tax Debt Relief with a Payment Plan

21st August 2009
Finding tax debt relief is not always easy. But if you know about the options you can find the best one. You may not want to seek out relief, but if you owe money to the IRS you don't really have a choice. The last thing you want to do is avoid paying the...
Author: Matt Robinson
Taxes

IRS Tax Debt and Benefiting From Tax Attorney Services

25th July 2009
IRS tax debt If you happened to be one of the unfortunate individuals to owe tax debt from your past years, or you have paid your taxes for the current year, and still expect to owe further taxes to the IRS in the form of IRS debt, it's possible for yo...
Author: Tax Help
Taxes

IRS “Summertime Tax Tips” and the Alternative Minimum Tax

19th July 2009
In Information Release 2009-64, issued last week, the Internal Revenue Service announced that is publishing a series of periodic "summertime tax tips." The stated purpose behind issuing these tips is to provide useful and concise advice on topics that af...
Author: kinal
Taxes

The Annual Alternative Minimum Tax “Patch” and “Indexing” Explained

27th June 2009
The Patch Each year for the past several years Congress has "fixed" the AMT problem by enacting a temporary "patch." With the signing of the stimulus bill this past February, 24 million taxpayers who otherwise would have been in the AMT in 2009 are sp...
Author: kinal
Taxes

Ways to Reduce Alternative Minimum Tax

23rd June 2009
The Alternative Minimum Tax is an integral part of our Federal income tax system. It is a separate, but parallel, system to what we refer to as the "regular" income tax. The AMT expands the amount of income that is taxed by including items that otherwise...
Author: kinal
Taxes

Alternative Minimum Tax Planning - Importance of Controlling Your Income Retirees

18th June 2009
Retirees usually are the most surprised of all taxpayers when they find themselves in the Alternative Minimum Tax. Unfortunately, there is no "age exemption" - if you have the right blend of income and tax deductions, it hits you just as hard as it hits e...
Author: kinal
Taxes

Obama and Biden release tax returns – Vice President still stuck in the Alternative Minimum Tax

18th June 2009
Shortly after April 15 President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden released their 2008 income tax returns. What these tax returns showed is that the President is not paying the Alternative Minimum Tax, but that the Vice President is still stuck in...
Author: kinal
Taxes

Alternative Minimum Tax Planning - Importance of Differing Types of Income

13th June 2009
As noted in the last article, the tax brackets that apply to capital gains and dividends are completely different from the tax brackets that apply to ordinary income . By definition, all income other than capital gains and dividends is called ordinary inc...
Author: kinal
Taxes

Steps to Success: Alternative Minimum Tax Planning

08th June 2009
In the legislative environment in which we currently find ourselves, significant changes affecting the taxation of individuals - that's you and me - are expected to be made, and to be made soon. All of this activity likely will also have a dramatic impac...
Author: kinal
Taxes

7 Most Commonly Overlooked Sources of Taxable Income

28th April 2009
Sometimes a person gets in debt to the IRS because they just do not understand the complex US Tax Code. And who can blame them? Taxes are complicated and trying to read through convoluted IRS explanations of the rules is daunting. Many taxpayers are not a...
Author: Roni Deutch
Taxes

How To Decide Whether to Standardize or Itemize Your Tax Deductions?

15th April 2009
Doing your taxes is time-consuming. There are a variety of choices on how to proceed. Taxes can be done online, or using a proprietary software package. Some taxpayers still use the old-fashioned method of pen and paper. Others prefer to hand the whole pr...
Author: Ron Finkelstein
Taxes

What is the 2008 Standard Deduction

27th March 2009
The standard deduction may seem confusing at first glance, but when broken down, it really is quite simple. Many taxpayers spend a lot of time every tax season trying to figure out if the standard deduction or itemizing is right for them. To help clear th...
Author: Roni Deutch
Legal

IRS Non-Filer? Don't Go to Jail! Here's What to Do:

12th April 2007
Results of Failing to File Your IRS Returns. If you have late tax returns, you face several possible bad consequences: ' Penalties. If taxes are owed, a delay in filing may result in penalty and interest charges that could increase your tax bill by 25 ...
Author: David Jacquot
Legal

The Death Penalty, Is it Good Or Bad?

07th December 2005
By: David G. Hallstrom, Sr. I am and always have been the pro death penalty, however, even though I am pro death penalty, I probably would not be willing to pull the switch or push the button. I do not think that this makes me a hypocrit. Please bear w...
Author: David Hallstrom
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