Xmarks: Synch your bookmarks with home and work browsers
Written by Shawn Strickler
Wednesday, 24 March 2010
A neat little tool has come out that will synch bookmarks between Firefox, IE, Safari, and Chrome. Xmarks is a small download that when installed hides in your system tray and lets you synch your bookmarks (favorites) to your other browsers. It's a good tool to have for people that have bookmarks at home and at work. With this tool, you can now have your bookmarks on both computers all the time.
The New Vehicle Sales and Excise Tax Deduction
Written by Raul Prieto
Tuesday, 16 March 2010
If you purchased a new vehicle in 2009, you may be entitled to a special tax deduction for the sales and excise taxes on your purchase.
Here is some important information you should to know about this deduction:
1. State and local sales and excise taxes paid on up to $49,500 of the purchase price of each qualifying vehicle are deductible.
Find out whether you received a $250 Economic Recovery Payment
Written by Juan Andrade
Thursday, 11 March 2010
The IRS developed the "Did I Receive an Economic Recovery Payment?" look up tool which gives taxpayers an easy way to determine if they received the one-time ERP payment and which agency made the payment.
With a Global Recession upon our doorsteps, we need to
secure our own finances that will make our lives and our family's as straight
forward as possible. If you have credit
debt you should really work to reduce debt quickly so you have the confidence
to reach your goals and live your life.
New for 2008 and 2009, taxpayers who do not itemize can add to their standard
deduction the cost of their real property taxes, not to exceed $500 ($1,000 for
joint filing taxpayers).
Those who stand to benefit from this provision are taxpayers who pay property
taxes but whose itemized deductions are less than the standard deduction. This
most frequently will include retired taxpayers who have paid off their home
loans and do not have any mortgage interest to deduct. Note that to the extent
any real estate taxes are related to business property, such as a home office,
and deducted elsewhere on the tax return, they cannot be included in the added
standard deduction.
Many people upgrade their computers and have their old one
sitting around collecting dust or better yet, add to the ambience of the self
imposed pack rat. There are several
things that you can do with your old computer that can actually benefit you or
someone you know.
Any views or opinions presented in this blog are solely those of the author and might not represent those of Strickler & Prieto, LLP. *****Any advice included in this written or electronic communication was not intended or written to be used, and it cannot be used by the taxpayer, for the purpose of avoiding any penalties that may be imposed on.
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