Archive for the 'Taxes' Category

Taxes: The Good News or the Bad News?

Monday, March 26th, 2007

That is what my wife asked me when she paged me at work today. I already feel a little like a slug for pawning our taxes off on a professional. The last thing I want to hear is that we really dropped the ball in some other way.
Luckily for us, it wasn’t [...]

Are There Any Benifits to Filing Joint Taxes?

Sunday, March 18th, 2007

Since the deadline for taxes in now less than a month away my wife and I have finally gotten our tax documents in order. For the past two years I have done my taxes myself. For the 2004 tax year I used Turbo Tax and it worked quiet well. The only [...]

A Real Tax Rate of 40%

Monday, March 12th, 2007

I don’t know how I missed this article on MSN Money in late February. It is really an eye opener about the way we are taxed. Unfortunately the article doesn’t really go into the details of how they calculated all these tax rates for each age group.
As I skimmed the article [...]