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Category Archives: Taxes

Tuesday Top 5: Thinking Ahead to Tax Season

Welcome to this week’s edition of our Tuesday Top 5, Econ4U’s weekly tips post to help you manage your money in five easy steps. You’re probably not thinking about tax season right now, but fall is a great time to revisit your tax planning strategies. Here are a few tips to make the most of your [...]

Tuesday Top 5: Sales Tax Holidays This Month

Welcome to this week’s edition of our Tuesday Top 5, Econ4U’s weekly tips post to help you manage your money in five easy steps. To lure back-to-school shoppers into the mall, many states are offering a sales-tax holiday this weekend, saving consumers money on big-ticket purchases like computers, software, books, apparel, and footwear. Last year, the [...]

Tuesday Top 5: Starting Small

Welcome to this week’s edition of our Tuesday Top 5, Econ4U’s weekly tips post to help you manage your money in five easy steps. The secret to wealth building isn’t necessarily stock-market prescience or a brilliant business idea. Everyone starts somewhere, and it’s often just a small decision that snowballs to big rewards. Take one of [...]

Tuesday Top 5: Planning for a Big Purchase

Welcome to this week’s edition of our Tuesday Top 5, Econ4U’s weekly tips post to help you manage your money in five easy steps. If you have a major purchase on the horizon — be it electronics, home furnishings, or a vehicle — now is the time to start considering your options to keep costs low [...]

Tuesday Top 5: More Famous Financial Flubs

Welcome to this week’s edition of our Tuesday Top 5, Econ4U’s weekly tips post to help you manage your money in five easy steps. Tax Day has come and gone, but for certain members of Hollywood’s elite, April 15 was just another Thursday. Too bad debt collectors and the IRS don’t see it that way. While [...]

Last-Minute Tax Tips

Judging by the number of people scrambling to get their taxes done, you’d think April 15th came on a different day each year. Like it or not, Tax Day is here. Hopefully you’ve followed Econ4U’s advice and filed your taxes months ago. But in case you haven’t, don’t worry, we won’t tell. There’s still time [...]

Famous Financial Flubs: Cooking the Numbers Edition

British celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay, well known for his reality show Hell’s Kitchen, is raising a little hell when it comes to his taxes. Despite success across the pond (he ranks third in Michelin stars) his U.S. company, Gordon Ramsay New York, was forced to hand over his signature New York restaurant last year to [...]

Tax Tips: Advance EITC

Do you qualify for the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) we talked about the other day? Worried about remembering to file for the credit at tax time? Meet the income requirements and have at least one qualifying child? Then you might want to take a look at the Advance EITC (AEITC).  The IRS has made it [...]

Tuesday Top 5: Reasons to File Your Taxes Early

Welcome to this week’s edition of our Tuesday Top 5, Econ4U’s weekly tips post to help you manage your money in five easy steps. We’re now less than two months away from April 15th, the day the tax man gets his due. You may not even be thinking about your 1040 yet, but there are some [...]

Tax Tips: EITC Credits

This year, when completing your tax return, take a closer look at the deductions and credits you qualify for. With the troubled state of the economy, many people may find themselves in a different tax scenario than years past – which could mean a bigger check from the government! A perfect example of this is [...]