Obama's stimulus package included changing the tax tables for 2009 and 2010 to give people earning $75,000 or less (filing single) more take home pay. Those tax tables were available the end of February. The software my company uses to create paychecks for our clients updated their tables the first week of March. I imagine most payroll software ( Read more... )

At least not about Free File. I'm really, really tired of seeing the ads that say, "What the IRS doesn't want you to know . . . FREE IRS Prep & Efile at TaxACT®." Yeah, they don't want you to know that, which is why on the main page for the IRS website there are two links to the IRS starting point for it ( Read more... )

Start here. ( Then you can read this one. )

We can all make up spurious deductions and not pay our taxes, then we can use that extra money to buy stuff, and in a few years, we'll apologize and pay everything that we really owe, and that will make it all okay, especially if we're being made Secretary of the Treasury (you know, the department that controls the Internal Revenue Service, those ( Read more... )

The Internal Revenue Service has issued warnings about scams relating to the coming rebates.Remember: never, ever give out personal information such as Social Security Numbers, bank account information, or credit card numbers over the 'phone or on-line ( Read more... )