Archive for the 'Taxes' Category

Taxes - Time’s Almost Up, Lessons of the Year

Monday, April 16th, 2007

Tuesday, April 17th is the big day.   Are you ready? 
Unfortunately, I had some delays in getting a form signed so that we could claim my step-daughter on our taxes so ours is off tonight.  Yeah, I’m a procrastinator, huh?
Actually, I learned a lot this year and I think it would be good to document it [...]

Sallie Mae Customer Service Review

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

My husband and I did a spousal consolidated of our student loans with Sallie Mae a couple of years ago.  He had a loan there and I wanted to simplify our life by consolidating loans so we did. This was a good plan and seemed to work out well. 
Early in 2006, we paid off the [...]

Tax Talk - My 2006 Taxes

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

I know it’s only the second week in January, but I am always so anxious about my taxes that I feel the need to talk about them.  A lot. 
For years, my husband and I always owed the IRS.  We had no kids, no property, both worked and didn’t contribute to any pre-tax retirement accounts.  We [...]

Tax Talk - Refunds for Federal Telephone Excise Tax Paid

Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007

The new year is finally upon us and my first thought is, “Darnit, when can I start my tax return?”  I downloaded TaxAct 2006 and was reading about the tax changes for this year when I noticed the refund for Federal Excise Tax charges on our long-distance telephone service.  I remembered reading about this six months ago and promptly [...]

Tax Extensions

Sunday, April 16th, 2006

With the impending tax deadline coming up on Monday at midnight for most of us, I figured our normal Tuesday article schedule on Money Stuffed might be a bit late to mention tax extensions so I’m bumping up this article a couple of days.
If you don’t think you can have your taxes completed by the [...]

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