I’m giving away 2 copies of TurboTax Deluxe and 1 Premier.  So what do you have to do?
Leave a comment for one entry, and then send me an email with the secret word at the end of my RSS feed for another comment. 
I’ll draw the winner next Wednesday 2-16-10 and mail out the copies [...]

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Yesterday I talked about the fair tax, and today I want to talk about the flat tax.  I actually favor the flat tax just because it’s simpler solution to the problem. I’ve lived with the flat tax currently in the state I am in, and I honestly think it’s a very fair system.
We pay 5.3% [...]

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Someone suggested switching from a federal income tax to a fair tax.  There are many websites on it including this one called Americans for the Fair Tax.  It’s a very interesting site, and tomorrow I’ll talk about the flat tax idea.
The fair tax basic premise is the idea that we should pay based on our [...]

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Last week I blogged about our home repairs blowing the budget.  But I also mentioned the tax credits were incentivizing me big time.  Then I realized I might want to explain why the tax breaks were so awesome.
The Federal Tax Credits for Energy Efficiency can be found at this Website.  Now everyone is limited to [...]

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This year is a good year to be spending money.  How so? Spending money buying homes, cars, pretty much anything.  The Government is giving away huge tax incentives to stimulate spending and the economy.  The truth is that consumer spending is what drives the economy.  But with times being as rough as they are, I [...]

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Turns out I have a lot of conservatives in my family.  Granted it might be a generational thing.  My two uncles are very much against higher taxes.  They think they pay enough in federal income taxes.  But then they turned right around and said Obama was right in taxing those people making more than $250k/year [...]

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I just wanted to quickly do a turbotax review.  We did our taxes at the last minute again.  We had done a rough calculation in March, but for some reason tax forms were still arriving in April.  This year we again used Turbotax Premier instead of paying a CPA.
Honestly?  I found it easy.  We imported [...]

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This is a neat website to quickly calculate your taxes.  I would not say it’s able to do all the intricate details that turbotax does, but it gives you a ballpark figure of what you might owe.  It also gives you the guidelines for how much to withhold or pay during the year.
I’ve tentatively finished [...]

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The winners of the turbotax giveaway are…

Joshua Best
Della Hoffman
sfordinarygirl

Please contact me at livingalmost at gmail dot com with you addy.
Thank you for participating and hope you are enjoying the blog

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This week I didn’t really participate in carnivals as I was getting back into the swing of things. But I did read some interesting posts and I have 2 awesome giveways and a really cool frugal tip for taxes.
First I am giving away 3 copies of Premier turbotax. You must sign up for [...]

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