Archive for the ‘Taxes’ Category

Do Your Taxes!

January 30th, 2009 by Will Crowthers   waiting for comments...

As promised in my previous post regarding tax documentation, I wanted to review several options for doing your taxes and hopefully some helpful tips along the way.

By this time, you should have received most of your basic documentation like W-2’s (income) and 1098’s (mortgage interest). You may have received some 1099’s for bank account interest and/or investments sold, but these will continue to come into early February. Make sure you are armed with all of your documents before you get…

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Goodbye Holiday Season, Hello Tax Season

January 12th, 2009 by Will Crowthers   waiting for comments...

Unfortunately the tax season will be upon us before we know it. I will not dive deep into the specifics of filing taxes at this time, but wanted to provide a handy checklist of documents that you need in order to be prepared to file your taxes (regardless of if someone is doing it for you).

This is not an exhaustive list, but should cover the vast majority:

Employment and income
Gather W-2 forms (this will be mailed to you by January 31st) or…
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Welcome

January 1st, 2009 by Will Crowthers   waiting for comments...

Friends, Family and Colleagues,

It is with great excitement, passion and hope that today - January 1st, 2009 - we launch this blog to help everyone in their personal finance needs.

As all or most of you know, we (Brad and Will) share a passion for personal finance and have learned many lessons along the way. With that, it is our turn to share the lessons we have learned.

We will be blogging every 2 - 4 days to start out and will…

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