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Tax Twitter Tuesday 01.26.2010

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Welcome to the first Tax Twitter Tuesday of 2010!

We're into the filing season, the economy is still giving us fits, we've been giving like crazy to Haiti's earthquake victims and, as usual, politics are playing a big part in tax legislation. What a way to get a year going!

And all this means the Twitterverse is abuzz with tax talk. So let's get to it!

@CPALetter_Daily Today's Top Story in #CPALD - Obama to propose aid to middle class, freeze on some federal spending http://ow.ly/10xXX

@CLT_CPA North Carolina is now taxing digital property http://bit.ly/91kiqu

@freefrombroke RT @arohan 5 (plus 1) Tax Moves to Consider for 2010 http://ow.ly/1n3e0e

@taxmegan Dear Tax Clients; Yes, I do need your W-2's to be able to file your tax return. SERIOUSLY?

@frazierpresents Good article on how sales tax exemptions affect real jobs, not just "fat cats." http://bit.ly/cdzORD #salestax #tax

@Stacies_TaxTips Seven Things Your Accountant Should Have Told You – a Good Post From the Past: By Stacie Clifford Kitts, CPA It'... http://bit.ly/7poJaD

@rdftaxpro A Tale of Value - http://wanderingtaxpro.blogspot.com/2010/01/tale-of-value.html

@JoeTaxpayerBlog RT Roth or Traditional IRA: My fiance is in the process of rolling over her old 401k. As such, I introd... http://bit.ly/8M6P1T > comented

@TaxPolicyCenter TaxVox: Gene Steuerle argues that our overleveraged economy requires tax, not just bank, reform http://bit.ly/7ZCro5

@taxgirl Congress Wants You To Give To Haiti. But Just Haiti. http://goo.gl/fb/JsYR

@jfkellyjr @MajoratWH Obama temp Making Work Pay credit expires this year. $40B/yr. Outlived usefulness or permanent $400B program?

@joebwan No room to cut, eh? RT @taxfoundation: Tax Policy Blog: California Public Pension Costs Have Grown 2,000% in a Decade http://bit.ly/bNcPBW

@CPA_Trendlines #CPA #CPA link: Nicolas Cage's Foreclosed Home Sells for $4.95M: Nicolas Cage's former Las Vegas home, which had been... http://bit.ly/9DDDf2 ^w

@moolanomy Answered: help with 401k http://bit.ly/60n9QY >> I did. I hope they find it.

@TheTaxAdviser IRS announces plans for new schedule to disclose uncertain tax positions. http://twurl.nl/nbxyr5

@TaxDebtBlog #Tax Ten Things to Know About 1031 Exchanges - Forbes http://bit.ly/bbveu6

@NCTaxPro Hmmm... More Childless Workers Should Get the Earned Income Credit.: http://bit.ly/58kHc7 via @addthis #tax

And though I generally try not to double-dip on T3, I just cant resist giving @CLT_CPA another shot thanks to this great observation:

Thanks for the chuckle, Chad, and thanks to all my Twittering tax colleagues for keeping me (and you!) up to date on tax happenings.

If you're a Twitterer (Tweeter?) follow them -- and me! I'm @taxtweet -- for daily 140-character doses of good tax medicine.

We'll be back in a month or so with a whole lot more Twitter tax tidbits. See you then -- and in between, too, I hope! -- here at the ol' blog and on Twitter

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Posted on Tuesday, January 26, 2010 at 06:35 PM in Taxes, Twitter, Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (1)

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This is great information and provides access to a lot of on demand information. I specifically like the approach of compiling all this information in the same place.

Posted by: Tax Services South Florida | Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at 05:27 PM

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Weekly Tax Tip

Tax differences of home repair vs. home improvement — Keeping up a house takes a lot of work. In some cases, generally where you improve the property, the effort could help lower or eliminate a possible tax bill. In others, where you simply take care of necessary repairs, you'll make the place better, but without any tax benefit. (Aug. 16, 2019)
Check out all the latest post-Tax Day tax advice in the 2019 edition of Weekly Tax Tips. Many of these once-a-week tips will focus on planning moves to cut your 2020 tax bill. If, however, you're working on a filing extension for your 2018 return, you can get a refresher of the 2019 Filing Season Tax Tips at their respective monthly pages: January, February, March and April.

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Tax Season 2019 continues!
Are you among the almost 15 million taxpayers the IRS estimates are now on extension to file their 2018 tax returns? That new Oct. 15 tax filing deadline will be here before you know it. The countdown clock below will help you track the days until that absolutely final filing due date arrives. Maybe in the next six months, we'll have a better handle on the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act changes!
Note: I'm in the Central Time Zone, so adjust accordingly for where you live.

Time for Tax Tasks

Aug. 1: It's August, the month we experience some of the year's hottest temperatures and the
Dog Days of Summer. This pooch definitely knows how to deal with the warm weather.
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Check out these tips to help keep your pet, yourself and possibly your taxes cool as thermometer readings rise.

You also can chill this month after you make some tax moves over the next 31 days to lower your potential 2019 tax bill.

Aug. 2, 3 & 4: School will be starting soon across much of the United States. That's why the bulk of the annual back-to-school state sales tax holidays are or start this first weekend of August.
This year, that's 9 of 16 tax-free events.

Savvy shoppers who take advantage of these six tax holiday shopping tips can save this weekend at sale-tax-free events in Arkansas (Aug. 3-4), Florida (Aug. 2-6), Iowa (Aug. 2-3) and from Aug. 2-4 in Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Virginia.

Aug. 7: School supplies shopping notwithstanding, until classes actually start you'll need to keep the kiddos occupied for these final few weeks of summer. Day camp is a great option. Even better, the costs for these camp costs can count toward claiming the child and dependent care tax credit, so hang onto those day camp receipts.

Aug. 9, 10 & 11: Two more states keep the sales tax holiday ball rolling starting this weekend. Certain items are tax free in Texas from Aug. 9-11. Maryland's sales tax holiday also starts on Aug. 9 and runs through Aug. 17.

Aug. 12: Does your job include tips?
If so and you received $20 in tips in July, use Form 4070 to report your tips today to your employer. Note that if you participate in a tip-splitting arrangement, like the tip-pooling option recently approved by the Department of Labor, you only have to report the tips you receive and retain.

Aug. 17 & 18: The final two sales tax holidays are this weekend, with Massachusetts' set for Aug. 17-18 and Connecticut's week-long event starting Aug. 18 and ending Aug. 24.

Aug. 22: The wrapping up of the final back-to-school tax holiday sales are a sure sign summer is winding down. That means in addition to getting binders and backpacks and myriad other school materials, it's time for parents to do their homework on ways to pay for educational costs at from K-12 level through college. The tax code offers a variety of educational tax breaks that can help cover educational costs.

Aug. 28: If you didn't file your 2018 tax return by April 15 and instead delayed the inevitable by getting an extension, now's a good time to finish filling out that Form 1040 well before the final Oct. 15 deadline. Free File can help. It's available through that final October filing deadline.

The IRS-tax software industry's no-cost return prep and e-filing option is open for business through the Oct. 15 extension deadline for taxpayers whose income is $66,000 or less.

Aug. 31: August is over, but not the Atlantic Ocean/Gulf of Mexico hurricane season, which runs through Nov. 30.

We've been lucky so far, with only one storm, fsdafda, making landfall back in July. But as temperatures het up, so does hurricane formation. The countdown clock below can help you keep track of how many more days we have to worry about tracking any tropical depressions, storms or 'canes.

You can find more on getting ready, physically and financially, for hurricanes, as well as tax help for recovery efforts and tax deductions for donations to those who are hit by natural disasters at the ol' blog's Storm Warnings page.

Small Business Tax Calendar: Important filing, deposit and record keeping dates throughout the year that your company needs to know. You can get more tax calendar information at the IRS' online calendar page and view the full year's important business and individual tax dates in IRS Pub. 509.

State Tax Help

Don't forget your state taxes!
Forty-three states and D.C. collect personal income taxes. But even if you live in of the seven states without an income levy, you still face other state (and local) taxes.

State Tax Departments provides links to your state's Web page. The companion page, Tax Tidbits, is the compilation of blurbs about each state's tax laws. And for more state tax news, check out all our state tax bloggings.

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