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  • Figuring out the home-buyer tax credit


    L.A. LandAuthority Authority: 568
    Is there a home-buying tax credit in your future? Columnist Kathy M. Kristof details the changes that will allow millions of additional people to take advantage of the $8,000 tax credit for first-time home purchasers, under legislation signed Friday by President Obama. The new law raises the income restrictions for ...
    2 hours ago
  • Killing Jobs with Tax Increases


    Cascade Policy Institute - Oregon Public PolicyAuthority Authority: 112
    Click here to read the full report in PDF formatSummary: The looming campaign to approve or reject two new legislative tax increases will be spirited and probably heated. What voters believe these new taxes will do to jobs very well could be the deciding factor in the January 26, 2010 special election, where both ...
    3 hours ago
  • TUC backs Tobin tax to pay for bank bailouts


    The Guardian - guardian.co.ukAuthority Authority: 982
    • Unions back Brown plan that could raise £30bn a year • PM undeterred by bank chiefs and US opposition The TUC is today throwing its weight behind Gordon Browns plans for a levy on financial institutions , proposing a tax on UK banks to spare the country from tax increases and public spending cuts. With ...
    3 hours ago
  • Breaking: Ambac may file for bankruptcy


    InvestmentWatchAuthority Authority: 449
    OMG: Ambac warns it may file for bankruptcy a week after it reported $2.2B quarterly profit. Market surely can turn upside-down in one week or a day. Bond insurer says it may not have enough money to meet payment due in 2011 Link: http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2009/11/10/82546/ambac-warns-of-bankruptcy-risk/ ...
    4 hours ago
  • 5 Ways to Protect Yourself From Coming Tax Hikes


    The Daily ReckoningAuthority Authority: 645
    “The tax man cometh,” says Jim Jubak at MSN Money. According to the IMF, we’re looking at 10 years of government tax increases. So it’s time to buckle in and prepare for it… because “tax increases from the federal government lag tax increases from the states. But that doesn’t mean they aren’t ...
    4 hours ago
  • HomeBuyer Tax Credit Plan - Los Angeles


    San Fernando Valley Real EstateAuthority Authority: 112
    HomeBuyer Tax credit plan The homebuyer tax credit expansion measure includes these provisions: • Extends the $8,000 first time Homebuyers Tax Credit and creates a new $6,500 tax credit for homeowners buying a new home by July 1, 2010. • Homebuyers with contracts as of April 30 qualify for the credit so ...
    4 hours ago
  • U.S. Home Sales Rise to Two-Year High on Tax Credit


    Roni Deutch: The Tax Lady BlogAuthority Authority: 434
    After struggling for the better part of the last two years, it looks like the real estate industry is finally rebounding as the third quarter of this year represented the largest increase of home sales in two years. Much of this increase can likely be attributed to the homebuyer’s credit, which was due to expire ...
    5 hours ago
  • Ways to Resolve Your IRS Tax Debt


    Roni Deutch: The Tax Lady BlogAuthority Authority: 434
    Just before the weekend, my YouTube team shot another new episode for our YouTube tax tips video series. In this episode, host Edward Lester discusses the different approaches to settling IRS back tax debts. You can watch the embedded video below but be check out my YouTube channel to subscribe to my ...
    5 hours ago
  • Jerks In Congress need a tax on the wealthy. That’s all they need.


    I Hate the Media Article FeedAuthority Authority: 621
    Congress prepares to Jerk everyone around Remember Steve Martin’s movie The Jerk? Navin R. Johnson said all he needed was the ashtray, the remote control, the paddle game, this magazine and the chair. And that’s all he needed. Now the jerks in Congress say that in order to pay for health care, they need is a ...
    5 hours ago
  • Pawlenty Acts; Berglin Whines, Refuses to Enact Important Reforms


    Let Freedom RingAuthority Authority: 139
    This morning, DHS Commissioner Cal Ludeman announced that people currently on GAMC will be automatically transferred to MinnesotaCare . In transitioning people from GAMC to MinnesotaCare, Gov. Pawlenty’s administration has laid to rest one of the DFL’s accusations, that his unallotments would create thousands ...
    5 hours ago
  • Why is Timothy Geithner Rejecting Legislative Policy?


    FiredoglakeAuthority Authority: 768
    Treasury Secretary Geithner has the presidents ear (photo from Downing Street) Over the weekend, the G-20 held a summit on the financial crisis, and several nations put forward the idea of a “Tobin tax,” a fractional tax on international financial transactions, to help pay for economic recovery and future bank ...
    5 hours ago
  • Gordon Brown warned: axing childcare vouchers will cost Labour seats


    The Guardian - guardian.co.ukAuthority Authority: 982
    Former ministers say plan would undo one of partys landmark achievements Nine former cabinet ministers today rounded on Gordon Browns plans to cut childcare, warning the prime minister that he is threatening marginal Labour seats in the runup to the election by axing popular support for hard-working parents. The ...
    6 hours ago
  • Kerik Is Ordered Released on Bail


    NYT > TheaterAuthority Authority: 915
    Bernard B. Kerik, the former head of the New York Police Department, will be sentenced in February after pleading guilty to tax fraud and of lying to White House officials.
    6 hours ago
  • Governance of tax issues for directors


    Lance WiggsAuthority Authority: 490
    I’ve just run across this nice cheat sheet by the ATO – a tax governance guide for directors of large companies. It’s got some handy hints for directors of smaller companies as well. I maintain that at least one person on each board needs to understand this stuff well, and that everyone on the board should be ...
    6 hours ago
  • Nightly Ramble Tuesday


    BitsBlogAuthority Authority: 140
    Welcome, one and all to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the sphere… The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble SCOZZAFAVA AND THE LEFT: I guess it should not be surprising at all, to see leftists still trying to control the GOP by means of mislabeling such as Dede Scozzafava as a ‘moderate’.  Certainly, ...
    6 hours ago
  • And now for the other side of the coin on the home-buyer tax credit


    Real Estate Consumer NewsAuthority Authority: 127
    Publishers note: If you have been reading our blog for a while you are probably aware we have been supporters and advocates of the home-buyer tax credit as well as the extension and expansion of the credit, which happened last week.  We realize however, there are people that do not support the credits for a ...
    6 hours ago
  • VITA-a vital service


    ataxingmatterAuthority Authority: 113
    The IRS provides about $8 million to assist programs that provide free tax preparation services to low-income taxpayers.  This year, the IRS announced that it had applications from 360 organizations seeking $30 million in matching funds--obviously much more than was available.  The funds are intended to enable the ...
    7 hours ago
  • IFA International Tax Student Writing Competition


    TaxProf BlogAuthority Authority: 672
    The International Fiscal Association is sponsoring an DInternational Tax Student Writing Competition: Subject: Any topic relating to U.S. taxation of income from international activities, including taxation under U.S. tax treaties. Open to: All students during the 2008-09 academic year pursuing a graduate degree with ...
    7 hours ago
  • Over 90 Percent Of Daleys Property Taxes Go Towards TIF


    Progress Illinois -Authority Authority: 652
    Each fall, Cook County Clerk David Orr releases an annual tally of how much public money has been absorbed into Chicagos massive tax increment financing (TIF) system. Like clockwork, each new reportreveals that hundreds of millions are whisked away fromschools, parks, libraries, and other taxing bodies. The exact ...
    7 hours ago
  • I agree with what Lawrence says but not what he means…..


    Straight Talk About Mortgages and Real EstateAuthority Authority: 543
    In a report issued by the National Association of Realtors, they talk about how housing prices are still falling compared to last year (year over year).   I don’t think that really surprises anyone, so I’m not going to talk about that. What I’m going to pick on is what Lawrence Yun, the  choir boy for NAR ...
    7 hours ago

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