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The New Vehicle Sales and Excise Tax Deduction
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
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.
Checking the Status of Your Federal Tax Refund is Easy
If you already filed your federal tax return and are
due a refund, you can check the status of your refund online.
Where's My Refund? is an interactive tool
on the IRS web site at IRS.gov. Whether you split your refund
among several accounts, opted for direct deposit into one account, or asked the
IRS to mail you a check, Where's
My Refund? will give you online access to your refund information
nearly 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Xmarks: Synch your bookmarks with home and work browsers
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.
Many individuals spend time away from their offices while calling on customers
and vendors. As a result, they end up having to buy their lunch and want to
deduct the cost of that lunch as a business expense. Unfortunately, the cost of
meals can only be deducted when you are away from home overnight. However, you
may be able to deduct the cost of your lunch as business-related entertainment
if you take one of your customers to lunch with you. In any case, even when the
meals are allowed, they are only 50% deductible
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.
The IRS developed the "
If you already filed your federal tax return and are
due a refund, you can check the status of your refund online. 
A neat little tool has come out that will synch bookmarks between Firefox, IE, Safari, and Chrome.