Taxes

To Save Money On Property Tax Don’t Update Your City Property Records

If you want to save money on property tax, please don’t call the assessors office to update your city property records. Instead, let the inefficient, bureaucratic machine take its sweet time! The property assessor’s goal is to try and extract as much money from homeowners as possible. Your goal as a homeowner is to save […]

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The Main Reasons To File A Tax Extension Beyond Late K-1s

For the past several years I’ve filed a tax extension. A tax extension allows taxpayers to file for a six-month extension if they need more time to prepare their tax returns. The neat thing is that you can obtain an extension for any reason, so long as you submit Form 4868 electronically or on paper

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When Should You File A Tax Extension? The IRS Recommends Getting Into Debt To Pay On Time

Some people have asked me whether they should file a tax extension (tax form 4868) if they can’t afford to pay their tax bill. Unfortunately, being unable to pay your taxes isn’t a reason the government accepts to file an extension. Neither is procrastination. The only reason I can think of for filing an extension is

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The Marriage Penalty Tax Has Been Abolished, Hooray!

The marriage penalty tax is discrimination. But given the marriage penalty tax doesn’t hit everybody, there hasn’t been enough uproar to make it go away. Thankfully, the marriage penalty tax has been abolished for 98% of households. In the past, I used to wonder why two individuals with high incomes or two individuals with a

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How To Save More Than $100,000 A Year Pre-Tax: Open A SEP-IRA Or Solo 401k

One big goal on Financial Samurai is to highlight to readers what is financially possible. Once you know what is possible, you minimize your limiting beliefs and tend to strive much farther. You can actually save more than $100,000 in your pre-tax retirement accounts per year! Let me explain with some basics first. The 401k

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How The New Tax Plan Will Ruin Your Life If You’re Not Careful

I firmly believe tax policy changes behavior. The higher your taxes go, the BETTER your life becomes! Why? Because at the margin, the less money you keep, the less motivated you’ll be to work. Since the love of money is the root of all evil, the less time you spend chasing money, the happier you will be. One of

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Tax-Deductible Job Hunting Expenses – Finding Work Is Expensive!

Recently, I discovered that finding work is expensive. Fortunately there are tax-deductible job hunting expenses that make it less painful. Thanks to 33% of you voting that I should go back to work full-time, I decided to rev up the rusty job search engine after 3.5 years of inactivity. And boy, what a waste of time

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