From the category archives:

Taxes

Tips for a Smaller Headache This Tax Season

February 15, 2010 4 comments
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Today, I share my top four tax tips that we’ve used for many years. What are your favorite tax strategies? Feel free to share them here!

6 Important Tasks After a New Baby's Birth

January 6, 2010 34 comments
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We have a date set for the birth of our baby boy! Here are 6 things we’ll take care of immediately after that are often overlooked.

Death and Taxes

Where is My Tax Money Spent? A Visual Guide

April 26, 2009 1 comment

Today, I’d like to introduce my readers to a wonderful resource I found a few weeks ago that can tell you exactly where your tax money is going. Produced by Jess Backman at WallStats.com, this 6-square-foot poster of goodness describes, in painstakingly articulate detail, each branch and department of government and how much of the [...]

Lessons Learned From My 2008 Taxes

March 14, 2009 1 comment
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I finally got around to completing my taxes for 2008 today (thanks to the craziness of moving a few weeks ago, and not being able to figure out if I had accounted for all my information in the process). The middle of March is pretty late for tax filing for me, as I usually try [...]

Why Tax Refunds are Bad

February 1, 2009 2 comments
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Fiscal Fizzle’s debut post–why tax refunds are not good to receive, and my own pursuit of the ever-elusive $0 refund.