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Charles M Cooper

10 Things You Should Know About Amended Tax Returns

Tax Day is tomorrow and hopefully you have already filed, but filed or not, there is always a chance you will have to make a change to your return. That is called an amended return and here is what the IRS has to say about it.

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Posted: 4/14/2009 | Comments (0)

Charles M Cooper

IRS Payments—Things You Need to Know

Unless you are sure that you are going to get a nice refund this year, there are some things you need to know about paying your tax bill.

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Posted: 4/8/2009 | Comments (0)

Kim Fenolio

Small Biz Tip: Taxes: Finding a Tax Professional

These Small Business tips will help you to find the right tax preparer for your specific needs.

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Posted: 4/3/2009 | Comments (0)

Kim Fenolio

Small Biz Tip: Taxes: Home-Based Businesses

Small Business tips that will benefit specifically those who run home-based businesses.

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Posted: 4/2/2009 | Comments (0)

Kim Fenolio

Small Biz Tip: Taxes: Avoiding the Tax Audit

These Small Business tips show you what you need to know to avoid a tax audit by the IRS.

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Posted: 3/31/2009 | Comments (0)

Kim Fenolio

Small Biz Tip: Taxes: Deductions

These Small Business tips will cover tax deductions you don't want to miss.

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Posted: 3/30/2009 | Comments (0)

Charles M Cooper

Is the AIG Bonus Tax Going Too Far?

While it is true that the people are up in arms over executive bonuses, bailouts and all the other fiscal shenanigans going on these days; when it comes to government interference in contracts and private industry, shouldn’t there has to be a line where we say this far and no farther and shouldn’t passing a special tax on a small group of people because the Congress doesn’t like what they were paid well past that line?

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Posted: 3/19/2009 | Comments (1)

Charles M Cooper

The Home Office Tax Deduction and You

One of the most vexing issues among home-based business owners involves the tax deduction you can take for your home office. Here is what you need to know.

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Posted: 3/18/2009 | Comments (0)

Charles M Cooper

Small Business Tax Changes You Need to Remember

As a small business owner you need to have a good handle on your company's taxes. Here are a trio of changes you need to know about. Two are good, one...not so good.

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Posted: 3/16/2009 | Comments (0)

Charles M Cooper

Escaping the Tax Hikes: When Businesses Go Overseas

One of the arguments against tax hikes is that those with the money will leave the location being taxed. We have seen it happen on a municipal level, even a state level, and now, we are seeing it clearly on the national level as the president’s tax policies crystallize and companies relocate overseas to escape them.

Tags: business flight, taxes, obama, switzerland

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Posted: 3/12/2009 | Comments (1)

Charles M Cooper

How Cap and Trade Affects Your Small Business

As a small business owner, you know well enough that your taxes are going to be rising—possibly dramatically—over the next year or so. It is in the stimulus, and the budget, but have you paid attention to what is going to happen as soon as Obama passes his cap and trade legislation. It is supposed to lower carbon emissions, and it might. It will also be a massive tax on energy, one that you won’t be able to escape.

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Posted: 3/9/2009 | Comments (2)

Charles M Cooper

The Taxman Cometh

What with all the talk of the stimulus bill, another phase of Obama’s economic plan has had barely a mention—until now. We are talking about the President’s goal of cutting the federal deficit in half while, at the same time, raising federal spending and federal control to record heights.

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Posted: 2/23/2009 | Comments (0)

Charles M Cooper

Singing the Tax Code Simplification Blues

With the inauguration of President Obama and the coming of the change he’s promised, can we add one more change to the list? Can we create a tax code you don’t need Deep Blue to figure out?

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Posted: 1/20/2009 | Comments (5)

Charles M Cooper

$350 Billion in the Hole and Record Unemployment: Time for Something Different

When we were being sold on bailing out the financial sector, we were told that it was necessary to save jobs, homes, investments, businesses. Well, the first half of the initial $700 billion has been spent, stocks have been trending down and the unemployment rate is higher now than it has been in decades. Now a congressman from Texas has a radical idea: Take the other $350 billion and use it to finance a two-month tax holiday for all Americans. Now that’s what I call progressive!

Tags: small business, taxes, tax holiday, congress, reid, pelosi, gohmert, bailout, paulson, bernanke

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Posted: 12/5/2008 | Comments (1)

Charles M Cooper

The Holy Trinity of Economic Ruin: High Taxes, High Energy, High Labor

Tomorrow Americans go to the polls and by their vote, we will see if we will be going the way of Socialist Europe. Obama has promised us high energy bills, high labor costs and high taxes in the name of fairness. Is that what we really want? We find out tomorrow.

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Posted: 11/3/2008 | Comments (0)