If you are a business owner, you could be paying more taxes than you should if you do not take advantage of the healthcare tax credit. This tax credit is granted to employers who provide health insurance coverage to their employees under certain conditions stipulated in the recently-revamped Small Business Health Care Tax Credit page on the IRS website (www.irs.gov). At this page, you will find all the information you need about this credit – whether your business qualifies to claim it, examples of how you can save on taxes under various scenarios, FAQs, a YouTube video and a webinar.
Two years ago, the healthcare credit was introduced for the first time under the Affordable Care Act. If you are a small business owner that pays at least half of your employees’ health insurance premiums under a qualifying arrangement, you may be eligible for this credit. The
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Updated and a reminder that you can now activate your rewards for the second quarter of 2012. 5% back on grocery stores, restaurants, and all Home Depot purchases are the highlights.
Who doesnt like cash back? These credit cards offer a hefty 5% cash back on rewards on certain categories that rotate each quarter. Even though this may not seem like much, by keeping track of their promotions and using different cards smartly, I can easily rack up hundreds of dollars in additional rewards per year without otherwise changing my spending habits. None of these have an annual fee.
- Grocery stores
- Movie theaters
You must enroll each quarter at ChaseBonus.com, but its very quick. All other purchases earn 1% back, with no tiers or expiration of rewards.
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Years ago, I found myself sitting in law school in Moot Court wearing an oversized itchy blue suit. It was a horrible experience. In a desperate attempt to avoid anything like that in the future I enrolled in a tax course. I loved it. I signed up for another. Before I knew it, in addition to my JD, I had a LL.M Taxation. I needed only to don my cape…. taxgirl® was born. Today, I live and work in Philadelphia, PA, one of the best cities in the world . I landed in the City of Brotherly Love by way of Temple University School of Law. While at law school, I interned at the estates attorney division of the IRS. At IRS, I participated in the review and audit of federal estate tax returns. I even took the lead on a successful audit. At
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The other night while watching TV with my daughter she started to sing along with the FreeCreditReport.com song. Pretty catchy, I thought. Smart marketing, too. Unlike many ads which are creative but leave you with no way to remember which company or product they are promoting (just watch TV for 30 minutes and count how many ads actually connect directly with the product), this one uses the name right in the song. So youll always remember the website while you are singing. Kind of like the Aflac duck quacking the name of the company.
Okay, so the marketing is well donethe song is easy to rememberand so is the website.
But what about the product?
Is their free credit report really free?
Sadly, free doesnt always mean free these days. Sometimes it does mean free.
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Texas legislators have been busy in the past year enacting new surety laws. This particular law affects public warehouse grain operators. The new law is titled SB 248 and boosts the required surety bond for public warehouse grain operators from $20,000 to $35,000. SB 248 also caps the maximum bond at $500,000. The bond acts as a guarantee that the warehouse grain operators will follow State regulations. The new bill became in effect in September.
Did you find your accounting job boring? Don’t like your boss? If yes, then it’s time that you do something about it. Obviously you can’t stuck with a job you don’t like and spend times with a martinet administrator. Have you believed of forensic accounting? You might not be acquainted with of FAs but forensic accounting is the profession to look out for nowadays. Forensic accountants are very much in need in investigator bookkeeping and litigation support and with enhancing economical fraudsters forensic accounting has become a very well-known place of analysis. So get set to place your old job and become the reasonable sector’s lawful crime dog. Some of the locations such organization look into are tax evasion, money cleansing, accidents claims, insurance claims and bribery.
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