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Is Washington a high tax state?

1 day ago ago from HorsesAss.Org

So, is Washington a high tax state, as folks like Tim Eyman so often imply? Well it all depends on who you are . The Ten States with the Highest Taxes on the Poor The table above represents the effective rate of state and local taxes on the bottom twenty percent of households in each state. (In Washington, those earning under $20,000 a year.) As you can see, if your goal is to soak the poor, we kick ass. Nationally, the ...

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Please, Please, Please Read What You Claim Supports Your Opinions!

13 hours ago ago from Liberty Reborn

Everyone that reads me on a regular basis knows that I support replacing the federal income tax with a national sales tax. I have even expressed more than lukewarm support for The FairTax which is, as a whole, a very good proposal but not without its flaws. The biggest flaw it has is that it is still a progressive tax that creates two levels of tax payers in America – those that pay taxes and those that do not pay taxes. This is all thanks to ...

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Tax Return Outsourcing: Reduce your Burden of Taxation

1 day ago ago from Personal Finance, Student Loan, Credit Card and Debt Consolidation.

Everyone wants to file his or her tax on time; therefore, he or she keeps on preparing his or her income statements throughout the financial year. In fact, timely payment of tax is a task that everyone wants to complete before due date, as proper tax filing gives a person great relief from unnecessary financial penalties that emerge due to the delay in tax filing process. Be it an individual or any business organization, every entity that ...

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New Years Economic Resolution

12 hours ago ago from The Unbroken Window

Do NOT take financial advice from Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine . Are there economics editors over there? The brief article is talking about how zero inflation is bad for you. Ignore the larger economic question about how inflation is bad for you, this article is arguing that from a pure dollars and sense perspective, inflation makes people better off, and zero inflation makes people worse off! Here is why: Government benefits ...

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Will He Get Caught And Charged For Tax Fraud?

18 hours ago ago from The Sacramento 10 - Top Ten Lists of the Best Restaurants, Businesses, Services, and Everything Else You Can Imagine in Sacramento, CA

How come there are some people who are claiming kids on their tax returns that are not even their own are getting paid big time money on their tax refunds? I was told someone from Sacramento claimed two kid that aren't even his own and the last names are even the same, in Fresno and got paid like 5,000 in EIC. Don't ask me how I don't know. Now There was a dude that claimed my little brother and sister on his Federal Income tax and he lives ...

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Zero inflation impacts tax rates, government benefits and tax breaks

15 hours ago ago from Washington Post - U.S.

Tax rates, government benefits and tax breaks designed to keep pace with inflation through annual cost-of-living adjustments and indexing won't budge in 2010. You won't earn much on your savings, either. Welcome to the year of the un-COLA. -- No payroll tax boost. High-income workers, rejoice: The maximum amount of wages subject to Social Security taxes will remain at $106,800, the first time the index hasn't changed since 1971. The tax ...

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2009 year-end tax tips

16 hours ago ago from Washington Post - Business

The days of 2009 may be dwindling to a precious few, but there is still time for taxpayers to check over this year's finances and possibly save themselves some money when they file their tax returns in the spring. This year, though, figuring out the best strategy is even more complicated than usual. First, Congress has fiddled with the law. Lawmakers almost always do this, but this year they have been adding, subtracting and sunsetting ...

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Federal estate tax remains in flux

23 hours ago ago from Washington Post - Politics

The federal estate tax is on course to be repealed for one year beginning in January, allowing heirs of large inheritances to temporarily escape the so-called death tax although a little-noted provision in the law would expose many smaller estates to higher tax liabilities. Senate Republicans blocked a Democratic attempt to temporarily extend the estate tax earlier this week, meaning that barring any unforeseen action the levy will ...

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