10 Things You Definitely Should Not Do on Your Taxes
So, you think you’re ready to file your taxes, huh? Well, not so fast.
So, you think you’re ready to file your taxes, huh? Well, not so fast.
In ‘Titanic,’ Leonardo DiCaprio famously declared, “I’m king of the world!” And while it may not be quite as grand, two Vietnamese buyers are now kings — or at least owners — of the smallest town in the US after buying it this week for $900,000.
Tax season isn’t fun for anyone. While filing your taxes means digging through shoeboxes of receipts, guessing at what number goes on which line and and pounding your head against real or imaginary walls, it can be even worse.
Luckily there are a few great apps that can help ease the frustration of tax time. This year, let your phone save you some irritation — and maybe even some money.
Officials at the US Mint have spotted a sign they say is indicative of an improving economy — coin shipments are increasing.
As consumers, we’re all used to being nickel-and-dimed to death with fees — from charges for checking a bag when we fly to charges to pay a bill online, we see them every day. They may be small, but they add up. And some were even more egregious than others in 2011.
Traditionally, people think the perfect gift is the one you’ve spent months thinking about and searching for, or the one you spent a month’s salary on, but new research shows that gift recipients are just as happy, if not more, with less expensive gifts, or the ones they picked out themselves.
Ready for something scarier than your checking account balance? Folks who tried to make a withdrawal from this ATM machine got more than they bargained for in the form of a snake who lived in the device. As if the hidden charges most banks try to pull aren’t bad enough. Now we have to dodge snakes at the ATM? Back to hiding our cash under the mattress for us.
Actually, “Snakes in the ATM” would be a great Samuel L. Jackson movie. Watch a particularly scary ATM visit below.
In response to Bank of America’s recently announced $5 monthly fee for debit card usage, Florida-based Community Bank is doing the reverse — it’s paying customers to bank with them.
Baggage fees, parking fees, credit card fees, banking fees...big business found lots of new ways to get into our pockets in 2010. Most of these new fees were courtesy of the airline industry, while wall street also needed to find ways to pick pocket us
This is an unfortunate but necessary ending to a long road for funnyman Dane Cook. Back in October the comedian's half-brother and former manager, Darryl McCauley, was sentenced to five to six years in prison for stealing millions of dollars from Cook. I guess the saying is true. Mo' money mo' problems!
Much like the day before thanksgiving you spend a ton of money and wake up the next day with a headache.