Use These Services to File Your Taxes, Even If You’re on a Small Income
If your taxes are simple or you have a commercial tax-filing service, then you can file using the instructions in the back of the 1040...
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Practice Keeping Track of Your Personal Expenses
Try to keep track of your personal expenses for a few days. You'll probably find it surprisingly hard. Here are some reasons why: We don't...
Understand Your Finances: Make Good Decisions About How to Spend Your Money
Personal financial planning is not necessarily about managing money effectively. It's also about understanding how you are managing, or mismanaging, your money. This is because...
Find Out If You Need to File at All
The first thing to understand is that most people don't need to file, ever. The only people who have to file are those with earnings...
Put Together Your Net Income
Put together your net income for the year. If you had some big expenses, like a car or a home, be sure to include them.Now...
The Easiest Way to Do Your Taxes Is to Have a Simple Individual Tax Return
A simple individual tax return is one that lists all your income and expenses, but where you don't have to calculate anything. Instead the government...
Manage Your Money Better by Keeping Track of Where It Goes
Keeping track of where your money goes is a useful discipline. Sometimes it will reveal ways to save money; sometimes it will alert you to ways...
Liquidation of a Business Under Common Accounting Methods
Liquidation of a business under common accounting methods involves many arbitrary estimates, judgements and assumptions. If the business is being liquidated by a receiver, an...
Interview Your Accountant
Your accountant is the person most likely to know your business backward and forward. He is also the person least likely to tell you what...
Discuss Outsourcing Vs. In-House Bookkeeping.
I think it is clear that outsourcing bookkeeping is more efficient than doing it in-house. The people who would do the accounting in-house are probably...