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Archive for March, 2008

Poll: How Do You Prepare Your Taxes?

With tax time upon us, you have probably either already filed, completed, or at least started thinking about your taxes. But, how do you prepare your taxes? Do you stick to the traditional method of filling out the paper forms by hand, or do you rely on the assistance of a software program? Or maybe […]

Treat ‘em Mean, Keep ‘em Keen: Making Your Creditors Work for You

This is a guest post from Jonathan Leane from Master Your Card. Jonathan is a poor college student fighting to stay one step ahead of his loan repayments. Be sure to check out the site or subscribe to the RSS feed so you can learn to master your card.
It was but several years ago […]

Your Tax Dollars at Work: $42 Million Just to Mail Out Tax Rebate Reminder Letters

It doesn’t matter where you fall on the political spectrum, but you probably understand that government spending can be incredibly wasteful. There isn’t a better example than this mailing about to go out from the IRS just to inform people that they might be getting a rebate check later this year. That’s right, the IRS […]

Friday Finance Findings For March 7th

For my sanity’s sake, I sure hope the markets can pull together a small rally in the next three weeks. If not, the first quarter of 2008 is going to be showing some disturbing numbers. I thought it was bad enough back in January when our fourth quarter statements were mailed and people were concerned […]