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Senate Bill Calls For Hiatus On Wireless Taxes

A bill has been introduced into the United States Senate to enact a five-year moratorium on new or increased taxes on wireless telecommunications infrastructure and services.

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House Committee To Probe IRS Operations And Budget

A House of Representatives committee has scheduled a hearing to examine Internal Revenue Service operations for the 2009 tax filing season and the agency’s proposed budget for 2010, which includes substantial new money for enforcement activities.
 
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IRS Temporarily Suspends FBAR Filing

The Internal Revenue Service announced on June 5 that the reporting requirement with respect to foreign bank accounts, due to take effect on June 30, 2009, is temporarily suspended for those persons who are not citizens, residents, or domestic entities.
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SELF EMPLOYED: Check Out These Tax Tips

With Tax Day this week, is your return gathering dust in your home office? The National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE) has one piece of advice -- take a deep breath. "If you are running behind this year, there is no need to panic," said Keith Hall, NASE's National Tax Advisor.
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Card Fees On Tax Payments Deductible, IRS Confirms

Credit or debit card convenience fees charged for paying federal individual income taxes electronically are deductible for some taxpayers who itemize, the Internal Revenue Service has announced.

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Overlooked Credits & Deductions

Commonly overlooked tax deductions and tax credits include the Earned Income Credit, Child Tax Credit, Saver's Credit, medical expenses, moving expenses, state and local taxes, charitable donations, job expenses and self-employment deductions.

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Do You Need to File a Federal Income Tax Return?
Every year millions of people file Federal Income Tax returns even though they are not required to. Find out if your income is below the filing requirement.

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Hunting for Tax Deductions?  Job Searches Can Be Rewarding

In today's corporate America, changing jobs is commonplace. Cutbacks, layoffs and corporate ladder climbing can all lead to a search for other employment. But the dreaded job search has an upside - tax deductions!

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Excel 2007 Macros Made Easy

shows you how to create, run, and revise macros to simplify repetitive tasks and store the instructions for complicated ones. You'll learn to use Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), add macros to the Excel toolbar, and share your macros with other users. Discover how easy it is to develop custom macros, save time, and boost productivity. Record and edit acros Create and debug macros in VBA Save macros to the Personal Macro Workbook or other workbooks Create VBA subroutines and functions Develop interactive macros Format cells using macros Create variables and arraysv Apply logic to macros with If/Then/Else routines Use loops to process data Add controls to your worksheets.

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QuickBooks On Demand

is a task-based reference book, designed to appeal to the QuickBooks user who wants the answer to questions in a hurry. The book is highly visual, with screen shots and callouts describing each step of particular tasks. Accompanying the task steps are cross-references to related sections of the book, tips and short cuts, introductory text, and sidebars that expand on more technical areas of the program. You’ll find this is an indispensable resource.

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Recently Published Articles by Gail Perry

 
 

Obama's first tax increase: National sin tax is effective April 1st.

The first major tax increase from the president who promised no tax increases on 95 percent of the population goes into effect April 1. This is not an April Fool's Day joke - this is a tax increase that hits approximately 21 percent of adults age 18 and over, regardless of income level, and approximately 20 percent of teenagers, many of whom are not normally considered to be among the ranks of taxpaying citizens. more...

  

 

IRS releases information to help employers claim COBRA coverage credit.

The IRS unveiled new information on the IRS Web site that includes an extensive set of questions and answers for employers. In addition, the Web site contains a revised version of the quarterly payroll tax return that employers will use to claim credit for the COBRA medical premiums they pay for their former employees. more...

  

 

Flying around CPA Island with Tom Hood.

Take a step into the virtual world of Second Life and plan on losing all sense of time. I went "in world" recently with Tom Hood as my guide. Hood is the executive director of the Maryland Association of Certified Public Accountants and the force behind CPA Island in Second Life. more...

 
     

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