Image by ozgurmulazimoglu via Flickr Recently, a software reviewer named David Matthew of Software Advice alerted me to a review he has prepared, comparing the most recent versions of Quickbooks and Peachtree accounting software packages. (Matthew’s review of the products is located at the links above.) I think he does a pretty good job of looking over the options available between the two packages, but the unfortunate part is that, even with this comparison review it’s a tough decision between the two. If all you have to go on is this review and you have not specifically developed a list of requirements, you might not know for sure if one product will work better for you over the other. If you’re starting out from scratch, you must consider your experience and background, as well as whether or not you’ll be sharing the information with other business partners. In that case, […]
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Date Set for Processing Delayed Returns
The IRS announced on January 20, 2011, that the delayed returns – those that have itemized deductions on Schedule A, include higher education tuition and fees deductions on Form 8917, and/or that include the educator expenses deduction, can begin processing on February 14. Many processors (commercial software) will accept these returns now and send them to the IRS beginning on February 14, so there is no reason to delay. And if your processor (or tax guy or gal) doesn’t allow for the early acceptance, you can still get your information in to them and they’ll submit it when the time is right. This delay was explained in the article that I wrote earlier about how some returns would be delayed this year due to the late passage of the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010. Photo by hillary h
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Review of 2009 Stats
Ed. Note: taking a breather from our normal business of posting retirement, tax and other personal financial planning topics to report on the blog itself and the statistics we’ve seen in this, the 6th year of publication for the blog. We’ll be back to our regular programming with the next entry. – jb Over the past year, this blog has undergone a few major changes… I upgraded the format to WordPress; then added the IRA Owner’s Manual, reorganizing all those IRA posts into a coherent manual; a summary, chapter by chapter, of the seminal book “The Richest Man In Babylon”; plus I started writing more – generally adding a new post every other day. Planned for 2010: more of all the yummy income tax, IRA, and other retirement-related and investment/financial planning articles that you’ve come to expect; likely a Social Security Owner’s Manual and a 401(k) Owner’s Manual (along the […]
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