Time to prepare my tax returns
My income tax is due in a few weeks! I’m pretty good at math, but I no longer prepare my own taxes. The form alone scares me. I feel I have to hire an accountant, because Congress, endlessly sucking up to various interest groups, keeps adding to a tax code. Now even accountants and tax nerds…#steveforbes #bostonharbor #megan (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 4, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Reform Drives Progress At the IRS
For the first two decades of this century, the IRS was the subject of congressional neglect, if not outright enmity. Even as returns processed and dollars collected grew substantially, its staff size was reduced by 25 percent. Taxpayer services and enforcement activities suffered, and dysfunction…#republicans #kevinmccarthy #democrats #israel #hamas #mikejohnson #jamesalm #tulaneuniversity #richardschmalbeck #simpsonthacher (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 4, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Gambled in 2023? Here ’s how it will impact your taxes
Tax season is back, which means it’s once again time to report your income for the previous year. That includes all your income, whether it’s from a W-2, a side gig, illegal activity (yes, you have to report that), and potentially a new source of income for some: gambling winnings. Gamblers new…#w2 #gamblers #billmiller #marksteber #nexstar #aw2g #jacksonhewitt (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 3, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

The Hidden Way Congress Shrinks Your Tax Breaks
Plenty of taxpayers are left scratching their heads when Uncle Sam takes more of their income than they expected. Most Read from The Wall Street Journal • None A Warren Buffett Protégée Is on the Hunt for Small Companies. She Now Has Millions More to Spend. • None Lawyers Who Got Musk Pay Struck…#unclesam #teslastock #socialsecurity #medicare #magi #ericbronnenkant #betterment #line11 #hsa #agi (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 3, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Roth IRA Tax Guide For 2024
A popular and efficient way to stretch your retirement dollars is to take advantage of the tax benefits offered by Roth individual retirement accounts (IRAs). However, to maximize these advantages, you need to know how Roth IRAs are taxed. Here’s a breakdown of taxation for Roth IRA contributions,…#internalrevenuecode #irc #nonecontributions #nonetaxfree #nonequalified #nonenon #smartreads (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 3, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Mega Millions Jackpot Hits $650 Million: Here ’s What The Winner Would Take Home After Taxes
The Mega Millions jackpot has grown to an estimated $650 million after no winning tickets were drawn Friday night, making it the seventh-largest prize in its history, though a lucky winner—facing one-in-302-million odds—would take home just over one-third that amount after paying required taxes. A…#arizona #megamillions (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 3, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Indonesia contemplating changes in crypto taxes?
The post Indonesia contemplating changes in crypto taxes? appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News Indonesia’s Commodity Futures Trading Regulatory Agency has reportedly asked the government to reconsider its take on cryptocurrency taxation owing to its significant role played in Indonesia’s…#indonesia #vat #ojk (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 2, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Why millionaires may have already hit their Social Security payroll tax limit for 2024
Most Americans can expect to pay Social Security payroll taxes throughout 2024. But for top earners with gross annual wage income of $1 million, March 2 marks the date at which they will stop paying into the program, according to the Center for Economic and Policy Research. The reason why those…#socialsecurity #democrats #republicans #capitolhill #johnlarson #democrat #elizabethwarren #mass #berniesanders #larson (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 2, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Indonesia mulling changes to dual taxation on crypto: Report
The Commodity Futures Trading Regulatory Agency of Indonesia has urged a reevaluation of the country's 0.1% capital gains tax and 0.11% VAT on crypto transactions.#indonesia #vat (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 2, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Want the IRS to do your taxes for free? The Direct File program will be available soon in these 12 states
The Internal Revenue Service’s free tax-prep platform will soon be open for business. After slowly increasing capacity on its Direct File platform, the IRS will make the platform available to a wider audience on Monday, the agency said. The platform is expected to be fully up and running on March…#directfile #arizona #florida #massachusetts #nevada #newhampshire #southdakota #tennessee #wyoming #turbotaxintu (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 1, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Terrence Howard Ordered to Pay Nearly $1M in Federal Tax Evasion Case
A federal judge in Philadelphia has ordered Terrence Howard to pay a penalty-heavy $1 million in back taxes — a skirting of payment that the actor justified in a voicemail to an official where he asserted that it’s “immoral” for the government to tax the descendants of slaves. The Academy…#philadelphia #terrencehoward #justicedepartment #easterndistrict #pennsylvania #hollywoodreporter #empire #howard #mariaelizabethruwe #hollywood (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 1, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Question of whether Nebraska public money can go to private schools still set for November ballot
Nebraska’s top election official has ruled voters will get to decide whether to repeal a law that pays for private school tuition scholarships with taxpayer money.#nebraska (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 1, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

The Hidden Health Costs of Climate Change
Climate change kills. Since 2000, nearly four million people worldwide have lost their lives due to floods, wildfires, heat waves, droughts, and other extreme weather events that have been linked to a steadily warming planet, according to a recent estimate in the journal Nature. That sweeping number can make it hard for any of us to grasp how the problem is touching health in our own small part of the world. Now, a new study in Nature Medicine provides some of that granular insight for people living in the U.S., exploring how climate-linked disasters affect visits to hospital emergency departments in counties nationwide, a...
Source: TIME: Health - March 1, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized climate change healthscienceclimate Source Type: news

Leaving'hotel California': Business owners torn over exodus share stories of'how bad' things really are
California's businesses share the same "headache," being personally torn between closing their doors or moving to other states over high crime and taxes. "I have considered moving to a different state," attorney and law firm founder in the San Francisco Bay area, Flavio Carvalho, told Fox News…#sanfranciscobay #flaviocarvalho #foxnewsdigital #cfo #cheriefalwell #trishaquino #frisco #goldenstate #redballoon #andrewcrapuchettes (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 1, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

More than $1 billion is up for grabs as California Lottery jackpots soar heading into the weekend
More than $1 billion is up for grabs as jackpots for three California Lottery draw games soar heading into the weekend, the California Lottery office confirmed to KTLA. The jackpots for the Mega Millions, Powerball and Super Lotto Plus equal to about $1.064 billion without accounting for taxes.…#californialottery #ktla #megamillions #superlotto #californians #statelottery #luckynumbers (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 1, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news