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Flexible Spending Account Deadline

Mar 13, 2010 1:11pm

The flexible spending account deadline is one that you don’t want to miss if you still have funds from last year in your FSA. As you’re probably well aware, you lose any money left in your flexible spending account that’s not spent by the FSA deadline. Flexible Spending Account Grace Period A...

H&R Block at Home Software

Mar 11, 2010 8:15am

H&R Block at Home is some of the best tax software available for consumers who want to prepare their own taxes. I was able to ask Julie Markey, a Vice President at H&R Block, some questions about the software via email. Julie’s the managing director of digital tax solutions so she’s very...

Medical Expenses & Income Tax Deductions

Mar 10, 2010 8:26pm

Your medical expenses can be income tax deductions depending on how you file your taxes and how high your medical bills are. We all know that health care costs just keep going up, lets take a look at how you might be able to get tax deductions for these expenses. Tax...

Should You Automate Your Finances?

Mar 9, 2010 4:15am

As you might know I’m all about automating our finances. I make every effort to make our transactions live in the digital realm so they can happen automatically without us having to worry about them: – We pay our bills with online bill pay. I setup exception checkpoints so that if...

QuickBooks Accounting Software = Small Business Relief!

Mar 8, 2010 9:30pm

QuickBooks is the best accounting software for procrastinators like me! I spent part of Sunday working on my business financials for last year (which I should have done sooner) and QuickBooks made it easy for me to get my business accounts up to speed. When I sat down yesterday morning I was dreading...

Money, Money, Money

Mar 6, 2010 1:57pm

We covered money from a few different angles here on Money Smart Life last month. As you’re probably aware, the primary focus was on taxes; however we did touch on some health insurance, retirement, and career topics as well. Here’s a look at some of the articles from last month...

Tax Refund Status

Mar 4, 2010 2:49am

How can you check on your IRS tax refund after you’ve filed your taxes and are waiting to get money back? Below is a tax refund schedule from TaxACT that shows an approximation of when your refund check should be mailed or direct deposit put into your bank account based...

Overtime Exempt Employee vs Non-Exempt Employee

Mar 1, 2010 9:12pm

I’ve been an exempt employee ever since my first job out of college. For a long time I didn’t really know the details about the labor laws behind exempt vs non-exempt; all I knew is that it meant I wasn’t paid overtime wages for all the late nights and long weekends...

Angies List Coupon Code Referral

Feb 27, 2010 2:50pm

Angies List is celebrating their 15th year online and is offering a coupon code that can earn you some cash and save your friends some money as well. If you’ve never heard of the service, a while back I wrote up an Angies List review and also list some angies list coupon...

Online Tax Software Success

Feb 25, 2010 9:00pm

Online tax software is becoming more popular each year for people looking to file their federal income tax returns on their own. Compete, a company that measures website visitors across the Internet, released a report this month that showed 11.5% more consumers visting the category of “Accountancy and Tax Service”...