Bloomberg reports that under Obama's health care reform proposal, a new tax would apply to income from interest, dividends, annuities, royalties, capital gains, and rents for individuals who earn more than $200,000 and joint filers reporting more than $250,000. The President had proposed a 2.9% tax for this unearned income (i.e income not directly from a salary), but Congressional leaders ar
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Spring Cleaning for Your Financial House
Posted 1 day 12 hours ago (http://www.mydollarplan.com)
Our snow finally melted and we got our first glimpse of spring this week. It always feels good to open the windows and doors and get some fresh air in the house and do some spring cleaning. It’s also a good time to do some spring cleaning in your financial house. Here’s a few financial spring cleaning tips I’m working on today:Throw away bills, receipts, and papers you don’
How Much Checking Account Cushion Do You Have?
Posted 1 day 14 hours ago (http://frugaldad.com)
How much cushion do you like to leave in your checking account? You know, the money you try to balance down to instead of zero. In the past, I have simply tried to keep a few hundred dollars in my checking account to avoid overdraft fees.I’ve recently discovered the beauty of declaring a specific amount [...]Post by Frugal Dad
How To Write A Check And Other Checkbook Basics
Posted 1 day 15 hours ago (http://www.moolanomy.com)
When someone is first enter the world of finances, they will need to learn some new basic finance skills. Unfortunately, many teenagers and young adults get to college without having a clue about some basic personal finance tasks. You might make a lot of bad money choices, but if you have some basic financial knowledge, [...]
Has Online Savings Accounts Become a Commodity?
Posted 1 day 16 hours ago (http://feedproxy.google.com)
While reviewing Sallie Mae Bank’s online savings account, I realized how little the actual company behind the web interface mattered to me. I know, I know, the importance of choosing the place to store the majority of my liquid savings is critical. But when every company’s offering is just done through “software”, which for the [...]
Working Americans Have Almost No Retirement Savings
Posted 1 day 17 hours ago (http://www.bargaineering.com)
CNN Money reported last week that 43% of Americans have less than $10,000 in retirement savings, which is a statistic provided by the Employee Benefit Research Institute in their Retirement Confidence Survey (2010 results). If that figure isn’t scary enough, it appears that 27% of workers have less than $1,000. Both figures are increases from [...]Working Americans Have Almost No Retirement
The Balance Between Splurger and Miser
Posted 1 day 18 hours ago (http://www.getrichslowly.org)
This post is from GRS staff writer April Dykman.Before I changed my habits, I spent money without much thought. In college, if I had a two-hour break between classes, I’d drive to the mall. Once I started working full time, my coworker and I would bring our lunches to work just so that we’d have the entire hour to shop. If I was bored, I’d wander into the cosmetics superstore Sephora for entertai
Stupidest Tax Mistakes to Avoid
Posted 1 day 19 hours ago (http://feedproxy.google.com)
(Guest Post by Lisa Rowan)All too often, the return of tax season is greeted with the dragging of feet and pulling of hair-and that’s even before the pencils are sharpened. Many of the headaches caused by tax preparation can be avoided with a little research and review.Dodge these seven common tax [...]
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