• How to Avoid an Unpleasant Surprise on Your Property Taxes

    While property taxes are unavoidable, an unpleasant surprise is not. Here's what you need to know to prepare for your tax bill—especially if you are purchasing a new build.

  • How to avoid tax creep in retirement

    The state pension went up 8.5% in April – hitting £11,502 per year for someone on a full new state pension. This is great news for people’s beleaguered budgets, after the cost of living crisis laid waste to their finances. With inflation finally on the wane, this increase introduces some much-needed breathing space. However, many […]

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    How to avoid the penalties, pitfalls of annual Tax Day

    DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) -- The midnight Monday deadline to file taxes has been known for a while, but for many, it was a last-minute rush. Experts said millions of Americans waited until the last 48 hours to file. Why the rush? The penalties for not filing can add up. If you fail to file by []

  • How to Avoid Paying a Penalty If You Filed Your Taxes Late

    If you miss this week’s tax filing deadline, you might be feeling anxious about getting hit with late-filing penalties by the IRS. However, if you don’t have a recent history of filing your taxes late, it’s possible to apply for something called a first-time penalty abatement.

  • David Gardner: Avoiding estimated tax penalties

    In case you missed the frantic calls from your accountant, let me remind

  • How Overseas Companies Wound Up With Surprising Tax Bills in Congo

    After a high-stakes standoff, wireless operators agreed to pay an extra $5.8 million a month to the government.

  • Are Municipal Bonds a Good Investment To Avoid Federal Taxes?

    Bonds are an important part of a typical investment portfolio. That’s especially true the closer you get to retirement and once you’ve retired. Bonds typically lower the overall risk of your portfolio vs. putting together a portfolio comprised of 100% equities (stocks). However, during the period following the onset of COVID-19 (when inflation jumped to […]

  • Glendale teachers surprised to find their taxes already filed -- fraudulently

    The IRS recently notified teachers, nurses, counselors and other faculty members in the Glendale Unified School District that they could not file their taxes this year because they already had — or at least somebody using their information did. In December, the school district with more than 25,000 Los Angeles County students learned that it was the latest victim of a ransomware attack aimed at institutions that store sensitive data, but lack the same type of security standards of a large...

  • What Atalanta must avoid against Liverpool and surprising Scamacca-Salah comparison

    La Gazzetta dello Sport warns that Atalanta must absolutely avoid conceding in the opening stages of tonight's Europa League quarter-final second leg against

  • A Taxing Timeat Tax Time

    Was it as bad for you as it was for me? Sending Washington money we earn, but Washington doesn’t, I mean? It’s not just being part of half the nation that pays taxes while the other half doesn’t that bothers me. It’s the waste and unnecessary programs and agencies that have long outlived whatever usefulness they once had (if they were ever necessary). And still President Biden wants to raise taxes even more without proposing a single dollar be cut to reduce our unsustainable $34 trillion debt. ...

  • A Taxing Timeat Tax Time

    Was it as bad for you as it was for me? Sending Washington money we earn, but Washington doesn’t, I mean? It’s not just being part of half the nation that pays taxes while the other half doesn’t that bothers me. It’s the waste and unnecessary programs and agencies that have long outlived whatever usefulness they once had (if they were ever necessary). And still President Biden wants to raise taxes even more without proposing a single dollar be cut to reduce our unsustainable $34 trillion debt. ...

  • When rogue brokers switch people’s ACA policies, tax surprises can follow

    Some tax filers this year face an added complication: Their returns are being rejected because they failed to provide information about Affordable Care Act coverage they didn’t even know they had.