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Best Tax Software: TurboTax vs. H&R Block vs. TaxACT
We’ll take a look at the software that can make this year’s taxes a breeze — or, if not a breeze, at least as easy and straightforward as taxes can be.
Apps and Sites That Make Filing Taxes Easier
A slew of helpful websites and mobile apps make paying or getting a refund from Uncle Sam easier than ever.
Facebook Co-Founder Gives Up U.S. Citizenship — Is He Ungrateful, or Heroic?
Last Friday, we learned that Eduardo Saverin, one of the co-founders of Facebook, had renounced his American citizenship in what seemed to be a transparent ploy to escape a hefty bill from the IRS in the wake of Facebook’s …
Apple’s Tax Avoidance: Evil Scheming, Good Business, or Both?
The elaborate — and legal — ways that Apple, and other tech companies, minimize their tax bills.
via Apple’s Tax Avoidance: Evil Scheming, Good Business, or Both? | Business | TIME.com.
Oklahoma Bill to Tax Violent Video Games Is Clueless and Inconsistent
Once more into the land of moral foolishness: An Oklahoma lawmaker just introduced a bill that would impose a tax on games deemed “violent,” with the money from said tax going to battle bullying and childhood obesity.
Bullying …
IRS Investigating Google over Foreign Subsidiaries
If you think being audited by the IRS is scary, imagine how Google is feeling. According to Bloomberg, the company is undergoing a private audit over its offshore subsidiaries and their use in avoiding federal income taxes.
The agency has requested information from the company about offshore deals following three large acquisitions, …
California to Collect Sales Tax on Web Purchases, Amazon Miffed
California will become the latest state to collect sales tax for online purchases made from out-of-state retailers. The law goes into effect tomorrow and coincides with a 1% reduction in the state’s basic sales tax rate as a result of the end-date of a two-year-old temporary tax increase.
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Data Visualization Technology: Where Do Your Tax Dollars Go?
If you’re grumbling your way through a mountain of tax forms at the last minute today (or if you forgot today was tax day—hurry!), you may be wondering where all your hard-earned money is going.
Google wondered the same thing, and sought to answer that question with what it calls the Data Viz Challenge. Per a company blog post:
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Two Minute Video: File Taxes from Your Smartphone or Tablet
Tax prep? There’s an app for that. Several, actually.
The folks at Intuit recently gave me a demo of their TurboTax apps: SnapTax for iPhone and Android lets you take a photo of your W2 form and fills in all the necessary blanks automatically, while TurboTax for iPad features everything you’d find with the web-based version of …
Intuit Glitch Results in Tax Return of Your Dreams
Ever get a tax return that seemed a little too good to be true? Imagine how Huron, Ohio resident Denise Bossetti felt when the state promised her $200 million.
Bossetti was reportedly one of 9,700 Ohio residents to receive outrageously inflated tax returns, thanks to an incorrectly-formatted data field in Intuit’s ProSeries and …
TurboTax Unveils New Mobile App To Help You File Taxes
We apologize: We’re betting that you don’t want to be reminded of tax season this early in the year, nor did you really wish for filing tax app. But Turbo Tax’s new app hopes to make the tedious act of filing taxes a whole lot easier, and since all of us have to embark on this terrible journey of showing Uncle Sam what is due to us (or …