My New Choice

Some of us are lucky - or foolish depending on how you look at it - in that we will be receiving a check in the mail from Uncle Sam bringing the glad tidings of a tax refund!
Forbes estimates that on average, tax payers will be receiving approximately $2,480 by way of a tax refund.
So […]

With the days before we should all have filed our income taxes dwindling away, I am about to undertake something rather ambitious: discuss some tax breaks and exemptions.
The reason I say “ambitious” is because the income tax code is a whopping 1.3 million words long, and that makes it twice as long as Tolstoy’s massive […]

Shopping online presents a great opportunity for good deals and comparison shopping, but it can often be time consuming and confusing.
Fortunately, there are simple Firefox add-ons that can make your online shopping experience a little easier.
Whether you want to know where to get the best deals on electronics, compare prices, or limit the amount of […]

After the emergency rate cut from the Federal Reserve just days ago, there is news of additional efforts to stimulate the economy with an announcement of a new deal that will give most tax filers a refund of $600 to $1,200, and more for those with children.
The $150 billion package would provide a rebate up […]

As the year 2007 came to a close, I took a day to close my financial books and prepare for the upcoming year.
This involved the process of archiving the paperwork from 2007 and preparing my filing system for the new documents.
As I prepared my filing system, I came across a list of tax tips in […]

While I was in Las Vegas on business, I received an email from a service that I use that indicated they were unable to reach this blog and it was simply returning a blank page.
With limited time to debug things while traveling, I noticed that a call to the WordPress hook for “wp_head” seemed to […]

What is the largest denomination of money that you have ever seen?
How about a $1 million dollar bill?
I’m sure we would all love to have one or two of those, unfortunately there is no such thing as a $1 million dollar bill. But that didn’t stop a Georgia man from trying to open a […]

Stephen Bis is a senior debt analyst with the USCA/Roll Law Firm which specializes primarily in credit card debt settlement.
Every year more and more Americans wake up one day to find that their financial position is becoming impossible to handle. The tell tale sign of a major problem on the horizon is when they open […]