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1: What you should know about Estate Taxes

There are many different types of taxes in the United States, and at least one comes into play almost every time you buy or sell something. There are tax consequences that must be considered when y...

By: J.Morgan

2: Avoiding the Estate Tax

Benjamin Franklin has been famously quoted as saying: "In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes." In many ways, the federal estate tax is a vivid illustratio...

By: Joseph Devine

3: 10 Ways to Cut Your Property Taxes

Property taxes are decided collectively by school boards, town boards, legislators, and councils. The tax rate is set by collating the amount of funds an area needs. This is then divided that by th...

By: Paul Wilson

10 Things Every Taxpayer Needs to Know About the Pension Law

The Pension Protection Act, signed into law on August 17, 2006, is designed to address the nation-wide problem of under-funded pension plans. The law penalizes noncompliant companies and encourages employee contributions, ...

By: Maggie Beetz

Personal Tax Exemptions

Thanks to the complexity of the United States tax codes, the system itself, and the variations of tax codes from state to state, completing your personal tax return and maximizing your deductions and exemptions to their fu...

By: J.Morgan

Can you Avoid Being Audited?

More than filing taxes, more than tax time itself, people dread getting audited. Both individuals and companies worry about the possibility of undergoing an audit, and the negative impression we all seem to have isn’...

By: J. Morgan

Gov. Mark R. Warner and some Republican legislators are urging the General Assembly to revamp taxes on telecommunications in light of the new phone, cable, wireless and Internet options available to c...

State governments are moving ahead with plans to create the data infrastructure that they and retailers will need to manage the collection of taxes on most e-commerce transactions.

Congress isn't likely to help states collect taxes on Internet sales anytime soon, but some states are laying the groundwork anyway, hoping to convince sellers, lawmakers and the White House that it c...

State policymakers frequently cite a 2002 study by two University of Tennessee economists estimating the amount of revenue the states would fail to realize in absence of a national system for taxing I...

Congress Wednesday cleared the way to keep access to the Internet largely free from taxes for the next three years, breaking a year-long deadlock.