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	<title>Bankrate.com &#187; Taxes</title>
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		<title>E-file fears grow</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/e-file-fears-grow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:48:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than 112 million taxpayers filed their returns electronically last year. If the 2012 filing season follows the trend of recent tax years, even more will e-file their taxes this year.
But that doesn't mean everyone is happy about the prospect or process.
A survey conducted by late last month by Ipsos for online tax filing company]]></description>
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		<title>IRS eyes foreign accounts</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/irs-eyes-foreign-accounts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/irs-eyes-foreign-accounts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Internal Revenue Service's main job is to collect our tax money. And some of that tax money comes from, or is supposed to come from, accounts that U.S. taxpayers have in foreign locations.
This filing season, a new reporting requirement, Form 8938, should help the IRS reel in taxes on foreign-held funds. It's the latest]]></description>
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		<title>Zuckerberg&#8217;s IPO tax break?</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/zuckerbergs-ipo-tax-break/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/zuckerbergs-ipo-tax-break/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chances are you're a Facebook fan. And I'm sure you like Bankrate on that social network.
Now with Facebook's initial public offering, or IPO, announcement, even tax geeks are finding new things to love, or at least discuss, when it comes to the social media giant.
Thanks to details in the Facebook S-1 filed with the Securities]]></description>
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		<title>Frequent flier tax confusion</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/frequent-flier-tax-confusion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/frequent-flier-tax-confusion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you're a Citibank customer, especially one who opened an account last year as part of a promotion that included frequent flier miles as a bonus, you are in for a tax surprise.
One of the tax statements you just received is a Form 1099-MISC from the financial institution informing you that you owe taxes on]]></description>
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		<title>New York Giants face tax foe</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/new-york-giants-face-tax-foe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/new-york-giants-face-tax-foe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Giants players are focused on Sunday's Super Bowl rematch with the New England Patriots, but the team's financial personnel are facing an off-field foe: the tax man.
East Rutherford, N.J., officials contend that the Giants owe $1.5 million in property taxes on their training facility in the Garden State.
The Giants say they are]]></description>
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		<title>Some tax refunds delayed</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/some-tax-refunds-delayed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/some-tax-refunds-delayed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=10986</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What's a tax filing season without a glitch?
This year the problem is tax fraud. But it's not what you might think.
The Internal Revenue Service has implemented a new tax refund fraud detection system. Basically, the agency has added screening mechanisms to make sure that the refunds go to rightful owners.
But the fine-tuning of the safeguards]]></description>
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		<title>Romney not aggressive tax filer</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/romney-not-agressive-tax-filer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/romney-not-agressive-tax-filer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:39:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's been two days since presidential candidate Mitt Romney released an avalanche of tax returns. That same night, President Barack Obama emphasized in his State of the Union address that every American needs to pay his or her fair share of taxes.
No one disagrees with the president about that. But it didn't take a political]]></description>
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		<title>Marginal vs. effective tax rates</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/marginal-vs-effective-tax-rates/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/marginal-vs-effective-tax-rates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:22:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We now all know what the Internal Revenue Service knows about Mitt Romney. He's rich -- earnings of $21.7 million in 2010 and an estimated $20.9 million last year -- and he pays a relatively low tax rate because most of his earnings in 2010 and 2011 were from investments.
Most of Romney's money, known as]]></description>
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		<title>Is the capital gains rate right?</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/is-the-capital-gains-rate-right/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/is-the-capital-gains-rate-right/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here's the latest big non-news item: Mitt Romney is very, very rich. Like a quarter of a billion dollars rich.
Usually when the topic of wealth comes up, folks are interested in how a person made his or her money. But in Romney's case, at least for us tax geeks, the focus is on how much]]></description>
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		<title>Free File as economic barometer</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/free-file-as-economic-barometer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/free-file-as-economic-barometer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:23:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year is the 10th anniversary of the Free File program allowing millions of taxpayers to prepare their taxes online and file them at, as the name says, no cost.
Although you can only get to the free tax filing option via the Internal Revenue Service website, it's a partnership of the tax software industry and]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t fall for tax scams</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/dont-fall-for-tax-scams/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/dont-fall-for-tax-scams/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:48:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=10621</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It's tax filing time. That means it's tax scam time.
Every year people make money off taxes, and I'm not talking about Uncle Sam. Con artists and identity thieves long ago realized that our fear of making a tax mistake coupled with basic human greed create the perfect breeding ground for their schemes.
And some people are]]></description>
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		<title>Rich are tax audit targets</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/rich-are-tax-audit-targets/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/rich-are-tax-audit-targets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=10589</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The 2012 tax filing season has just begun, but a perennial concern is on the minds of many filers: audits.
The good news is that if you make less than $200,000, your chances of the Internal Revenue Service taking a closer look at your return is negligible.
The latest IRS data on examinations – that's what the IRS]]></description>
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		<title>Tax filing day falls on April 17</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/tax-filing-day-falls-on-april-17/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/tax-filing-day-falls-on-april-17/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=10496</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you ready for tax season?
Yeah, you're right. It doesn't have the same pizazz as the football query, but whether you're ready or not, tax filing season is upon us.
You can start sending in your 1040 (or 1040A or 1040EZ) as soon as you have your W-2. Folks expecting a tax refund will lead this]]></description>
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		<title>Beware tax refund loan cousins</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/beware-tax-refund-loan-cousins/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/beware-tax-refund-loan-cousins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=10441</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Quick cash based on expected federal tax refund amounts, known as a tax refund anticipation loan, or RAL, isn't quite the big business it used to be.
But since this is America where ingenuity is rewarded, similar products have taken the place of these potentially costly refund loans.
First, a quick obituary for the strict refund loans.]]></description>
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		<title>Rich don&#8217;t pay enough taxes</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/rich-dont-pay-enough-taxes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/rich-dont-pay-enough-taxes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=10364</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It's no surprise Americans aren't happy with their federal tax system.
But a new poll finds the problem isn't necessarily the taxes they're paying. Instead, folks are concerned the wealthy aren't paying their fair tax share.
In a survey conducted Dec. 7 to Dec. 11, the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press found that]]></description>
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		<title>6 easy year-end tax moves</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/6-easy-year-end-tax-moves/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/6-easy-year-end-tax-moves/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:12:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regular readers of Bankrate tax stories this month have already received a lot of good advice on what they can do now to cut their 2011 tax bill.
But because I'm still in a festive, giving holiday mood, I thought it would be a nice post-Christmas gift to list some quick and easy moves you can]]></description>
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		<title>Lower payroll tax rate safe</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/lower-payroll-tax-rate-safe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/lower-payroll-tax-rate-safe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 4.2 percent payroll tax rate, two percentage points lower than the usual rate collected from workers to pay for Social Security, will remain in place through Feb. 29, 2012.
Now the House and Senate must work on a way to keep the lower payroll tax rate effective through all of 2012.
The two-month extension was officially]]></description>
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		<title>Payroll tax cut in limbo</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/payroll-tax-cut-in-limbo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/payroll-tax-cut-in-limbo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK. Extension of the payroll tax cut probably is not just in limbo, but dead for at least a while.
In a largely party-line vote today, the House voted to go to conference with the Senate to work out a deal to keep the 4.2 percent payroll tax rate in place.
As everyone knows by now, the]]></description>
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		<title>Payroll tax uncertainty</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/payroll-tax-uncertainty/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/payroll-tax-uncertainty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:46:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you ever had any doubt that things in Washington, D.C., work -- or don't work -- differently from the rest of the world, the latest turn in the payroll tax cut extension makes that very clear.
The payroll tax collected from workers to finance Social Security is usually a 6.2 percent rate. In 2011, it's]]></description>
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		<title>Kick the congressional bums out!</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/kick-the-congressional-bums-out/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/kick-the-congressional-bums-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:19:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congress is dilly-dallying as year-end deadlines approach for various measures, including continuation of the 4.2 percent payroll tax rate.
Such down-to-the-wire legislative antics aren't unusual. I worked for a representative, senator and finally the House Ways and Means Committee in a previous professional life and I remember several holiday breaks being delayed so Congress could complete]]></description>
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		<title>IRA charity rollover running out</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/ira-charity-rollover-running-out/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/ira-charity-rollover-running-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:58:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congress is caught up right now with the payroll tax issue. That is important. Unless the temporary 4.2 percent tax rate is extended, workers will get smaller paychecks in 2012.
But this legislative single-mindedness means that some other tax laws that also expire on Dec. 31 are falling by the wayside.
One of those tax breaks is]]></description>
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		<title>Big companies avoid state taxes</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/big-companies-avoid-state-taxes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/big-companies-avoid-state-taxes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 20:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember when General Electric stiffed Uncle Sam on federal taxes? Then we found out that more than two dozen big companies also found ways to avoid paying the IRS and some even got back tax refunds?
Now comes word that 265 of the most consistently profitable U.S. corporations cost states $42.7 billion in taxes over three]]></description>
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		<title>FSAs encourage medical spending</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/fsas-encourage-medical-spending/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/fsas-encourage-medical-spending/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After 10 days of sneezing, coughing and sniffling, not to mention dealing with sore, scratchy throats (I almost lost my voice; to the hubby's dismay, I didn't) and itchy eyes, my better half and I are finally over our colds.
We each get one every time we fly. Usually that means one of us gets sick]]></description>
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		<title>Millions in undeliverable refunds</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/millions-in-undeliverable-refunds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/millions-in-undeliverable-refunds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many Christmas presents could you buy with $1,547?
That's the average amount of tax refund checks returned this year to the Internal Revenue Service because the U.S. Postal Service couldn't deliver them.
Now Uncle Sam wants to get the cash, which totals more than $153 million, to its rightful owners, all 99,123 of them.
Yep, more than]]></description>
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		<title>Employees, contractors and taxes</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/employees-contractors-and-taxes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/employees-contractors-and-taxes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:20:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You got a job for the holidays. That extra cash certainly will come in handy. But be careful, or you could end up paying more than you expected to the IRS.
Many businesses nowadays are hiring folks as independent contractors rather than as employees. The distinction makes a big difference in who's responsible for income tax]]></description>
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		<title>Congress&#8217; year-end tax tasks</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/congress-year-end-tax-tasks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/congress-year-end-tax-tasks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:48:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You think your holiday to-do list is long? Look at what Congress must deal with now that its special bipartisan committee failed to reach a deficit reduction deal.
In case you haven't heard, the Joint Select Committee on Deficit reduction, popularly known as the supercommittee, was supposed to find at least $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction.
But]]></description>
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		<title>Remember your Roth taxes</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/remember-your-roth-taxes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/remember-your-roth-taxes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=9675</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The end of the year gets so crazy. But you can make it crazy good for your taxes by checking out my slideshow of 10 tax moves to make by Dec. 31.
Oh, you already did? Thanks! Then I've got a bonus 11th tax move tip just for all you loyal blog readers: Make sure you]]></description>
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		<title>Couple bonding via withholding</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/couple-bonding-via-withholding/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/couple-bonding-via-withholding/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 20:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=9541</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Since Kim Kardashian's marriage only lasted 72 days before she decided to call it quits, I doubt she and Kris Humphries ever got around to talking taxes.
But for the rest of us who have been married longer or plan to be, marriage means tax sharing, including payroll withholding responsibilities.
When both spouses work, it generally is]]></description>
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		<title>A Christmas tree tax tale</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/a-christmas-tree-tax-tale/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/a-christmas-tree-tax-tale/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Gather 'round, kiddies. It's time to hear the Great Christmas Tree Tax Tale of 2011, a new and short-lived holiday classic.
It's a not-so-heartwarming tax story that, in true American fashion, is dramatically overblown and got us thinking about Christmas before our next regularly scheduled holiday of Thanksgiving.
Once upon a time (actually in 2009) the National]]></description>
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		<title>Inflation change, higher taxes?</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/inflation-change-higher-taxes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/inflation-change-higher-taxes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 21:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Inflation has been low for the last few years. If you're a buyer, that's good because prices have been low.
But if you depend on Social Security benefits, that's not been too good because those recipients haven't seen a cost-of-living bump in their monthly checks for two years.
That will change in 2012. But another change that's]]></description>
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		<title>Profitable business tax breaks</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/profitable-business-tax-breaks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/profitable-business-tax-breaks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corporate income tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corporate taxes]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=9305</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There's renewed hope that the special bipartisan committee charged with finding a way to cut the federal deficit can reach an agreement now that some Republicans have  softened their no-tax stance.
And the most optimistic among us, which varies depending on the latest reports from Capitol Hill, still cling to the dream that Congress ]]></description>
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		<title>Failing education credit claims</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/failing-education-credit-claims/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/failing-education-credit-claims/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:46:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=9239</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Uncle Sam is happy to help you pay for your continuing education. But just like your parents, he'd really appreciate it if you'd attend class.
Such truancy has produced a billion dollar tax problem for the federal government, according to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, or TIGTA, the office charged with keeping an eye]]></description>
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		<title>Paying for IRS budget cuts</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/paying-for-irs-budget-cuts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/paying-for-irs-budget-cuts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:56:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=9163</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[During the recession, most of us have learned to live on less. That situation soon might apply to the Internal Revenue Service, too.
Both the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, the panels that propose how much money federal operations get, want to cut the IRS budget. The House plan calls for the IRS to get $525]]></description>
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		<title>Robin Hood tax rides again</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/robin-hood-tax-rides-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/robin-hood-tax-rides-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There is no dress code for Occupy Wall Street. But at the gathering in Chicago this month you could have caught a glimpse of several protesters in green tights.
The group was calling for a Robin Hood tax. And they dressed to make their point, including the legendary bandit's vest and green conical hat, complete with]]></description>
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		<title>Flat tax? Not so fast</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/flat-tax-not-so-fast/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/flat-tax-not-so-fast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:33:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flat tax rate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=9061</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[No one likes paying taxes. But would a flat tax make more of us tolerate the task more?
Republican presidential hopefuls Herman Cain and Rick Perry are betting their path to the White House is along a flat tax route.
A tax system in which all taxpayers pay the same percentage rate obviously would be simple. And]]></description>
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		<title>ND property taxes may be axed</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/nd-property-taxes-may-be-axed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/nd-property-taxes-may-be-axed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Dakota]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[property taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=8987</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nobody likes paying taxes, even when we acknowledge that we must do so to get services. But which tax do we hate the most?
It's a close race, but last year property taxes edged out income taxes as the most-hated tax. Yes, even though this levy can offer some tax benefits to homeowners who are allowed to deduct]]></description>
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		<title>Does Cain&#8217;s 9-9-9 tax plan add up?</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/does-cains-9-9-9-tax-plan-add-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/does-cains-9-9-9-tax-plan-add-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who here ordered a new U.S. tax system? You? Great. Here you go. That'll be 9-9-9. And don't worry about tipping your delivery blogger.
Actually, 9-9-9 isn't the price of the tax reform plan offered by Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain. It's the name of his proposed solution to our convoluted tax system.
Cain wants to scrap]]></description>
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		<title>Tax scams occur year-round</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/tax-scams-occur-year-round/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/tax-scams-occur-year-round/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[phishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax scams]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While it's easier for criminals to exploit tax themes around the April filing deadline, tax scams crop up 365 days a year.
But despite the time of year, the most popular tax con remains the same: phishing.
Identity thieves send out emails purporting to be from the Internal Revenue Service and request personal and tax information from the]]></description>
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		<title>The real reason for a fat tax</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/the-real-reason-for-a-fat-tax/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/the-real-reason-for-a-fat-tax/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 19:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Denmark]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fat tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sin tax]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Colorado is home to the skinniest Americans, although there are reports they've been loosening their belts of late.   
Colorado also imposes a soda tax and a candy tax.
Coincidence? Or cause and effect?
If you're a fan of the taxes, you say that the extra pennies tacked onto fattening food and drinks supplement willpower and help people keep off the weight.
That's]]></description>
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		<title>1099 or no, report your income</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/1099-or-no-report-your-income/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/1099-or-no-report-your-income/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 18:46:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-employed taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=8739</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You know that old saying about the cobbler's kids going barefoot, right? Well, I'm the tax geek version.
A lot of years I file for an extension. And when I do, I also tend to wait until the drop-dead October filing deadline (it's Monday, Oct. 17, this year) is upon me before I complete my 1040.
Why]]></description>
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		<title>IRS payment plan problems</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/irs-payment-plan-problems/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/irs-payment-plan-problems/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 18:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax payment plan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In these tough times a lot of folks have to scrimp to pay their bills. That includes what they owe the IRS.
The IRS understands this. And the agency long ago discovered what private businesses have known all along. If you let people pay off their bills over time, you get the money, and you get]]></description>
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		<title>7 small biz tax-filing tips</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/7-small-biz-tax-filing-tips/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/7-small-biz-tax-filing-tips/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Bakke</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[audit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IRS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[small business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax audit]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=8567</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While most small business owners are honest citizens doing their best to pay their fair share in taxes, there are a few who try to dupe the system. As a result, the IRS has created a formula called the Discriminate Function that looks for certain tax audit red flags in returns to catch those individuals.]]></description>
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		<title>Workers ignore tax-saving FSAs</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/workers-ignore-tax-saving-fsas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/workers-ignore-tax-saving-fsas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 20:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flexible spending account]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FSA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Employer-provided benefits that can save workers tax dollars are one of the biggest costs to the U.S. Treasury.
But apparently Uncle Sam's costs could be higher if more employees took advantage of additional workplace offerings.
Take flexible spending accounts, or FSAs, for example. These are a great way to stash money before taxes are taken out. That]]></description>
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		<title>Tax cuts, tax hikes, tax talk</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/tax-cuts-tax-hikes-tax-talk/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/tax-cuts-tax-hikes-tax-talk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 21:28:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama has come up with ways to get more Americans working and reduce the federal deficit. His plan to reduce the deficit by about $3 trillion over 10 years also would pay for his previously announced $447 billion jobs package.
Cynics might say that the person Obama is most interested in employing is himself, since]]></description>
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		<title>Innocent tax spouses gain time</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/innocent-tax-spouses-gain-time/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/innocent-tax-spouses-gain-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spouse]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've been married almost 30 years. Yes, I was a child bride. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
So, what does my wedded bliss have to do with taxes? Well, I've done our married filing jointly tax returns for each filing season since the hubby and I said "I do."
Statistically, we're the aberration when it comes]]></description>
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		<title>Tax deduction reductions?</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/tax-deduction-reductions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/tax-deduction-reductions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:19:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax deductions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you make more than $200,000 (or $250,000 and you and your spouse file a joint return) and you itemize deductions, you might want to pay attention to the jobs bill President Barack Obama is trying to get through Congress.
To pay for his proposal, the president is suggesting limits on the items claimed on Schedule]]></description>
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		<title>Estimated taxes due Sept. 15</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/estimated-taxes-due-sept-15/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/estimated-taxes-due-sept-15/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:57:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[estimated taxes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being the boss is fun, except when you have to juggle accounts to pay bills, or deal with an irked customer or make sure your taxes are paid.
OK, maybe being the boss isn't everything it's cracked up to be. But lots of folks still opt for self-employment, either by choice or because they've been nudged into]]></description>
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		<title>Tax relief for disaster victims</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/tax-relief-for-disaster-victims/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/tax-relief-for-disaster-victims/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 21:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disaster relief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[natural disasters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Labor Day weekend in Texas was horrible. In case you missed it, much of my home state is on fire.
The largest wildfire is southeast of Austin in Bastrop County. It was a lovely area, with small communities sprinkled among the Central Texas hills and forests. I say "was" because much of the area has]]></description>
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		<title>Time for clergy tax break to go?</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/time-for-clergy-tax-break-to-go/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/time-for-clergy-tax-break-to-go/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 21:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Religion and politics are two of the three things you should never discuss at a polite dinner party. They occasionally come up, however, when you talk about taxes.
There are many popular tax breaks that cost the U.S. Treasury billions of dollars. Expect them to get at least a cursory look by the new special committee]]></description>
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		<title>CEOs win, IRS loses</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/ceos-win-irs-loses/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/ceos-win-irs-loses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:51:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to tax reform, the consensus on Capitol Hill is that our corporate taxation system should be dealt with first. And most lawmakers seem to think that the 35 percent top business tax rate is too high.
Relatively high American corporate taxes, however, don't appear to be getting in the way of executive compensation.
The]]></description>
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		<title>Deductible hurricane help</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/deductible-hurricane-help/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/deductible-hurricane-help/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:44:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Rep. Ron Paul, officially a Texas Republican, says the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, "is not a good friend." Paul, who's trying (again) to get the GOP presidential nomination, thinks Uncle Sam should just get out of disaster relief and management.
Paul's colleague, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, stopped short of calling for an end]]></description>
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		<title>Foreign tax amnesty extended</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/foreign-tax-amnesty-extended/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/foreign-tax-amnesty-extended/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 21:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Holders of foreign bank accounts can thank Hurricane Irene for one thing.
Due to the potential impact of Hurricane Irene, the Internal Revenue Service has extended the due date for Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Initiative, or OVDI, requests until Sept. 9.
This is the IRS's latest effort to find out about and collect on offshore accounts. While it's]]></description>
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		<title>Foreign tax amnesty ends Aug. 31</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/foreign-tax-amnesty-ends-aug-31/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/foreign-tax-amnesty-ends-aug-31/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It's no secret that there are few boundaries in the financial world. European banks have branches in the United States. China is America's largest creditor. U.S. taxpayers owe the Internal Revenue Service on all their global income.
What? You say that last one, about your income being taxed regardless of where in the world it comes]]></description>
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		<title>Everyone avoids taxes</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/everyone-avoids-taxes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/everyone-avoids-taxes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When I was a kid, the big government bugaboo was welfare. President Bill Clinton and a Republican Congress revised that system 15 years ago. Since changes to the program, welfare caseloads have dropped by 57 percent nationwide.
But Americans still need someone to blame for their and the country's troubles.  So now it's all about the]]></description>
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		<title>Educational tax help</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/educational-tax-help/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/educational-tax-help/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 18:52:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coverdell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coverdell Educational Savings Account]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Classes cranked up here in Texas this week. After Labor Day, kids everywhere will be back in school.
Parents of college-age students probably already know they can take advantage of tax credits to help pay those ever-increasing education costs.
But there also is some help from the Internal Revenue Service for younger students.
The most direct tax-favored financial]]></description>
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		<title>Texas, Connecticut tax holidays</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/texas-connecticut-tax-holidays/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/texas-connecticut-tax-holidays/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 19:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sales tax holidays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[School's starting up and back-to-school sales tax holidays are winding down.
Texas today kicked off its three-day sales tax event. From Friday, Aug. 19, through Sunday, Aug. 21, Lone Star State shoppers don't have to pay state and local sales taxes on clothing and shoes costing less than $100; backpacks priced at less than $100; and]]></description>
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		<title>Gas tax battle averted?</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/gas-tax-battle-averted/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/gas-tax-battle-averted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FAA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Highway Trust Fund]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We watched last month as Congress brought America to the brink of default in its fighting over the federal debt ceiling extension.
We saw the Federal Aviation Administration temporarily hamstrung and federal airline taxes halted, messing up not only Uncle Sam's budget but causing tax confusion for the IRS and individual fliers, too.
Is the next Congressional]]></description>
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		<title>Energy-efficient mortgages</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/energy-efficient-mortgages/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/energy-efficient-mortgages/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:06:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy-efficient mortgage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mortgages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hot enough for you? If not, come on down to Texas, where we're on pace to have our hottest summer on record.
The only people enjoying this weather are air-conditioning repair firms and utility company billing offices. Meanwhile, we sweltering residents just push the thermostats up as high as we can bear. It's a choice between]]></description>
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		<title>More tax holidays!</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/more-tax-holidays/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/more-tax-holidays/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 19:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[back to school]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sales tax holidays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Shoppers in three states this weekend won't have to worry about some sales taxes, both online and in the store. Their states are holding sales tax holidays.
Florida, Massachusetts and Maryland are the latest states to hold back-to-school sales tax savings events.
Florida's tax holiday began Friday, Aug. 12, and runs through Sunday, Aug. 14. Shoppers will get a]]></description>
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		<title>Time for Amazon to pay up</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/time-for-amazon-to-pay-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/time-for-amazon-to-pay-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 18:29:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Amazon.com Inc is leading an effort to put California's recently enacted online sales tax law to the voters next year. If you're one of the few who didn't think the online giant was ballsy enough in its sheer opposition to collecting sales taxes from customers and its threats to pull projects from states to obtain tax]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Downgrading Capitol Hill</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/downgrading-capitol-hill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/downgrading-capitol-hill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 14:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It's only Tuesday, but for those of us hoping to retire sooner rather than later, it's probably going to be a very long week. Actually, thanks to Standard and Poor's decision to drop the United States' creditworthiness from triple-A to AA-plus, it's probably going to be a stretch of very long months.
The rating agency's decision,]]></description>
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		<title>Ticket tax refunds grounded</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/ticket-tax-refunds-grounded/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/ticket-tax-refunds-grounded/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 19:28:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[airlines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax refund]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you were counting on an airline ticket tax refund, you're out of luck.
When Congress was unable to agree last month on a bill to continue funding the Federal Aviation Administration, not only did around 74,000 people lose their jobs, but taxes tacked onto airline tickets also lapsed.
Thanks to that legislative oversight, it looked like]]></description>
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		<title>Airline ticket tax refund for some</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/airline-ticket-tax-refund-for-some/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/airline-ticket-tax-refund-for-some/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 20:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[airlines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IRS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[refund]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you buy an airline ticket before July 23 but didn't fly until that day or later? Then you paid a federal aviation tax that has since expired. And that means you're eligible for a tax refund of your ticket tax money.
The good news is that the Internal Revenue Service and some airlines are refunding]]></description>
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		<title>16 more tax holidays</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/16-more-tax-holidays/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/16-more-tax-holidays/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 15:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sales tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[state taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summer is almost over. That means back-to-school sales tax holidays.
This August, 17 states are trying to encourage shoppers by exempting certain products from state and in some cases local sales taxes. Mississippi kicked off tax holiday season last weekend. Eleven more states hold their tax-free shopping days this coming weekend. Five more state events are]]></description>
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		<title>Miss. sales tax holiday on tap</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/mis-sales-tax-holiday-on-tap/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/mis-sales-tax-holiday-on-tap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:16:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[sales tax holidays]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With folks pinching their pennies ever tighter, 17 states are hoping to encourage shopping by offering sales tax breaks.
This time of year the events are usually characterized as back-to-school tax holidays. But it's not just classroom supplies that are exempt from sales taxes.
In fact, in Mississippi, which kicks off the 2011 round of late summer]]></description>
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		<title>IRS tightens tax pro regs</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/irs-tightens-tax-pro-regs-4/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/irs-tightens-tax-pro-regs-4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:14:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax preparers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[tax professionals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Electricians are licensed. So are plumbers. Even my hairdresser has to get an official piece of paper from the State of Texas before she can cut hair for a living.
But in most states, it doesn't take any formal OK for folks to hang out a shingle declaring they are tax professionals.
The Internal Revenue Service is]]></description>
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		<title>Homebuyer credit&#8217;s value? Not much</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/homebuyer-credits-value-not-much/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/homebuyer-credits-value-not-much/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 20:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[first-time homebuyer tax credit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Northwestern]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How much did the first-time homebuyer credit help the U.S. housing market? Not much.
The much ballyhooed tax break was touted as the best way to shore up the sagging housing industry following the bursting of the real estate bubble.
But a new paper by Jonathan Brogaard and Kevin Roshak, doctoral candidates at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School]]></description>
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		<title>Stock options, tax complications</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/stock-options-tax-complications/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/stock-options-tax-complications/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stock options]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For most folks looking for a job, especially in these tough employment times, the key factor is salary.
But benefits also are nice. The usual workplace offerings are medical insurance and a retirement plan.
And some companies even offer their employees added compensation via stock options.
Employee stock plans that allow workers to get a share of the]]></description>
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		<title>Tightening offshore tax rules</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/tightening-offshore-tax-rules/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/tightening-offshore-tax-rules/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 19:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=7172</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Attention lawmakers looking for ways to bring down the country's budget deficit.
Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., says he knows an easy way to get $100 billion into the U.S. Treasury each year: close offshore tax loopholes and strengthen offshore tax enforcement.
Levin has introduced a bill that contains a variety of measure to end what he calls "offshore]]></description>
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		<title>Homebuyers still waiting on refunds</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/homebuyers-still-waiting-on-refunds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/homebuyers-still-waiting-on-refunds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homebuyer tax credit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=7120</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Jane Chrissy Smith is one of the lucky ones. She claimed the first-time homebuyer credit on her 2010 tax return, was entitled to a refund and finally got her money last week.
"Got my money today with $30 interest attached and a reminder that I will have to claim the interest on next year's taxes! Thanks.....For]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Tax chat on Monday</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/tax-chat-on-monday/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/tax-chat-on-monday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 13:27:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=7038</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ How's your year gone so far? Any big changes in your life? Did you get married? Buy a house? Have a kid? Start paying for a child's college?
 Congratulations on all of those.
 Remember, though, that those momentous events are likely to affect your taxes.
Find out how and what you can do about it at Bankrate's live tax]]></description>
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		<title>Preview of US budget battle?</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/preview-of-us-budget-battle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/preview-of-us-budget-battle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Minnesota]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=7028</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Want a preview of what might happen in the federal debt ceiling and budget deficit battle? Visit Minnesota.
Actually, don't visit Minnesota. That state is still shut down after the governor, a Democrat, and the state legislature, controlled by Republicans, couldn't agree on a state budget.
It was a decidedly uncelebratory Fourth of July for residents of]]></description>
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		<title>Housing tax breaks and the deficit</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/housing-tax-breaks-and-the-deficit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/housing-tax-breaks-and-the-deficit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 16:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homeowner tax benefits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=6988</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Are the tax benefits that homeowners get worth their costs to the U.S. government? That's a question that's being asked more often as Congress continues to struggle with ways to deal with the deficit and devise the fiscal year 2012 budget.
Homeownership tax breaks are not in the mix right now, but once we get past]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Is the tax man a tax cheat?</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/is-the-tax-man-a-tax-cheat/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/is-the-tax-man-a-tax-cheat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Internal Revenue Service isn't doing enough to ensure that its own employees are filing and paying their proper taxes.
That's the word from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, or TIGTA, the federal oversight office that keeps tabs on the IRS.
Although the IRS does find employees who mess up their taxes and even fire]]></description>
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		<title>IRS hikes mileage deduction rates</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/irs-hikes-mileage-deduction-rates/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/irs-hikes-mileage-deduction-rates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:34:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[auto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=6848</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Drivers who deduct mileage on their tax returns, rejoice! The Internal Revenue Service has increased the optional standard deduction amounts by 4.5 cents per mile.
These are the rates that are available for business travel, as well as trips for medical treatments and moving. When you have qualified expenses -- that is, costs approved by the]]></description>
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		<title>Banks sued for foreclosure taxes</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/banks-sued-for-foreclosure-taxes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/banks-sued-for-foreclosure-taxes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:36:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bank of America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wells Fargo]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=6772</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Homeownership offers lots of tax breaks. But the crash of the housing market produced a new tax problem for some homeowners. When their homes went into foreclosure, many ended up owing tax on the amount of their debt that was forgiven by the lender who took over the property.
Those folks got tax relief from those]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Tax pro error is no excuse</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/tax-pro-error-is-no-excuse/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/tax-pro-error-is-no-excuse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 19:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax pro]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=6722</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[More taxpayers than ever rely on professional help to fill out their tax returns. Such expertise, however, does not let individual filers off the hook.
That's the costly lesson Stephen Woodsum and Anne Lovett learned.
In 2006 the married couple got $3.4 million from the termination of a swap transaction. I don't know exactly what a swap]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>High earners escaping tax</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/high-earners-escaping-tax/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/high-earners-escaping-tax/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 18:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=6644</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm feeling a bit left out when it comes to taxes. The problem is that I seem to pay them. Apparently, I'm doing something wrong.
In the last few months, there's been a lot of attention on the reported 51 percent of folks who've figured out how to avoid paying income taxes. A good portion of]]></description>
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		<title>IRS deletes some charities</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/irs-deletes-some-charities/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/irs-deletes-some-charities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[charitable giving]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[charities]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did your favorite charity lose its tax-exempt status? Maybe. 
The Internal Revenue Service has announced that around 275,000 nonprofit organizations automatically have lost their tax-exempt status because they did not file required annual reports for three consecutive years.
This finding is critical not only for the groups, but also for taxpayers. Remember, one of the key rules for]]></description>
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		<title>Payroll tax cut for employers?</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/payroll-tax-cut-for-employers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/payroll-tax-cut-for-employers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 19:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=6490</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. economy has stalled. Concern is growing that we could be in for a double-dip recession. American workers, millions of whom have already given up looking for jobs, are more depressed and angry. Politicians are about to panic.
So what happens when folks in Washington, D.C., start worrying about keeping their jobs? They dole out]]></description>
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		<title>Tax cuts turn 10</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/tax-cuts-turn-10/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/tax-cuts-turn-10/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 21:15:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bush tax cuts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=6438</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ten years ago today the Bush tax cuts became law. 
They were part of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001, and the key tax provisions were:

Creation of the 10 percent tax rate for the first few thousand dollars of earnings.
Cuts in the existing top four income tax rates, topping out at 35 percent]]></description>
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		<title>Added adoption credit scrutiny</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/added-adoption-credit-scrutiny/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/added-adoption-credit-scrutiny/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 19:57:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adoption tax credit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=6354</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Raising kids is expensive, so lawmakers have provided a variety of tax breaks for parents.
One of the best tax benefits applies to families that adopt children, especially thanks to recent changes to the adoption tax credit. Not only has the dollar amount of the tax benefit been increased, the credit is now refundable. That means]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>401(k)s and the federal deficit</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/401ks-and-the-federal-deficit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/401ks-and-the-federal-deficit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 18:49:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[retirement planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=6296</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Retirement plans have been getting a lot of scrutiny as Congress fights over ways to reduce the deficit and come up with a new federal budget. This attention isn't new. Remember a few years ago when then-President George W. Bush talked about the cost savings of privatizing Social Security and how quickly that idea was]]></description>
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		<title>Taxes add to gas prices</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/taxes-add-to-gas-prices/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/taxes-add-to-gas-prices/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 18:17:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cheap gas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gas costs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gas prices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[high gas prices]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=6222</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you're planning a driving trip this holiday weekend, I hope you budgeted enough for gasoline. Gas prices continue to be near $4 a gallon around the nation and are likely to hold there throughout the summer vacation season.
Taxes contribute to what we pay at the pump. There's the federal gasoline excise tax, which has]]></description>
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		<title>Sales tax holidays on tap</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/sales-tax-holidays-on-tap/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/sales-tax-holidays-on-tap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 17:53:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=6166</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you plan to spend the Memorial Day weekend hitting holiday sales, then you're in for some added savings if you live in Louisiana, Texas or Virginia.
These three states are holding sales tax holidays this month.
The Louisiana event, which runs May 28 and May 29, is designed to help folks get ready for the upcoming]]></description>
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		<title>IRS &#8216;rich auditors&#8217; under fire</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/irs-rich-auditors-under-fire/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/irs-rich-auditors-under-fire/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 18:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bankrate.com/financing/?p=6070</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Is the Internal Revenue Service spending too much of its time and our tax money tracking down wealthy tax cheats?
That's the charge from one watchdog group.
Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, or TRAC, a data gathering, research and distribution organization at Syracuse University, contends that the IRS's Global High Wealth Industry group is not doing its job.
The special]]></description>
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		<title>Track down your tax refund</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/track-down-your-tax-refund/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/track-down-your-tax-refund/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 18:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A month ago, most of us were staring down tax day by finishing up our 1040s. OK, I'm taking some liberties by using "us," since I'm one of the 9 million or so taxpayers who got an extension, but you know what I mean.
And most of us (OK, most prompter-than-I) filers also got or will get]]></description>
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		<title>US taxes compare favorably</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/us-taxes-compare-favorably/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/us-taxes-compare-favorably/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 18:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OECD]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most American taxpayers believe they are overtaxed. Guess what? We're actually in better shape than taxpayers worldwide.
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, or OECD, reports that the overall tax burden on Western workers' earnings climbed in 2010 for the first time since the OECD started analyzing such data a decade ago.
The OECD's most recent annual Taxing]]></description>
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		<title>Worst tax season ever</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/worst-tax-season-ever/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/worst-tax-season-ever/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 20:35:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[first-time homebuyer tax credit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[first-time homebuyer tax credit refund]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Did you find filing your 2010 tax returns particularly troublesome? You're not alone.
National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson, speaking to a recent session of the American Bar Association Section of Taxation meeting in Washington, D.C., thinks so, too.
What made it so bad for the woman in charge of making sure the Internal Revenue Service is more]]></description>
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		<title>States stand up to Amazon</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/states-stand-up-to-amazon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/states-stand-up-to-amazon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 18:25:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cash-hungry states are beginning to stand up to Amazon.com Inc., the online bookseller-turned-general-merchandiser, when it comes to taxes. And things are starting to get nasty.
At issue is whether Amazon and other online retailers are legally required to collect sales taxes on purchases made in various states. The general rule, thanks to a 1992 Supreme Court decision, is]]></description>
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		<title>Who should be taxed?</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/who-should-be-taxed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/who-should-be-taxed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 17:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal debt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal deficit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A recent New York Times/CBS News telephone poll on the deficit and taxes indicates that when it comes to dealing with the federal deficit, America's feelings are as mixed -- and as politically partisan -- as those of folks on Capitol Hill who will have to make the country's ultimate fiscal decisions. 
In general, though, we appear]]></description>
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		<title>Reasons for tax refund glut</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/reasons-for-tax-refund-glut/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/reasons-for-tax-refund-glut/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 18:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The average tax refund last year was $3,003.
Filing data complied by the Internal Revenue Service through April 8 show that refunds issued so far in 2011 are close to that amount. For returns processed by early April, the average refund was $2,895. Taxpayers who had refunds directly deposited to a bank account got a bit]]></description>
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		<title>Same-sex marriage filing issues</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/same-sex-marriage-filing-issues/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/same-sex-marriage-filing-issues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 17:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[same-sex marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[same-sex marriage and taxes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Married couples usually have two choices when deciding which tax-filing status to use, married filing jointly or separately.
But it's a bit more complicated for spouses in same-sex marriages.
In the states where such marriages are legal, gay and lesbian married couples typically are afforded the same filing status options as their heterosexual counterparts.
On Internal Revenue Service forms, however,]]></description>
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		<title>N.C. residents get break from IRS</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/n-c-residents-get-break-from-irs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/n-c-residents-get-break-from-irs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 14:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's official. President Barack Obama has declared portions of North Carolina that were hit by severe storms, flooding and tornadoes last weekend a major disaster area.
And that has prompted the Internal Revenue Service to announce taxpayer relief for the disaster area residents. North Carolina state tax officials had already given affected taxpayers special treatment for their state filings.
On]]></description>
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		<title>N.C. storm victims get tax relief</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/nc-storm-victims-get-tax-relief/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/nc-storm-victims-get-tax-relief/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 20:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While millions of us were struggling to finish up our tax returns on Monday, April 18, folks in the Southeast had much more difficult and devastating battles on their hands. They were digging out of three days of deadly storms and tornadoes. 
In times like that, nothing matters but finding your loved ones. And taxes definitely were]]></description>
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		<title>Other April 18 tax tasks</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/other-april-18-tax-tasks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/other-april-18-tax-tasks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 18:39:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IRA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax extension]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With the April 18 filing deadline bearing down, I know you're focused on your 2010 tax return. But some of us have a couple of extra tax tasks to take care of by Monday, too.
Are you looking to reduce your tax bill by deducting a traditional IRA contribution? You need to get that money into]]></description>
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		<title>Dreading, delaying tax filing</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/dreading-delaying-tax-filing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/dreading-delaying-tax-filing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[missing tax deadline]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Haven't done your taxes yet? Maybe it's because you've been working on your hairdo.
OfficeMax's 2011 Tax it to Me survey found that around 40 percent of respondents said they'd feel more confident taking a pair of scissors to their own locks than filling out their tax returns on their own.
Before you go gender stereotyping, that percentage is]]></description>
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		<title>Dirty dozen tax scams</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/dirty-dozen-tax-scams/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/dirty-dozen-tax-scams/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 18:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IRS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax scams]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, the tax filing deadline is close. But don't get in such a panic that you fall victim to a tax scam.
To make sure we all avoid this season's most prevalent cons, the Internal Revenue Service has released its annual "Dirty Dozen" tax scam list.
These 12 scams could cost you more than you expect. Not only could you]]></description>
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		<title>File even if the IRS is closed</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/file-even-if-the-irs-is-closed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/file-even-if-the-irs-is-closed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 17:47:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government shutdown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paper tax returns]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's looking like neither side is willing to blink in the government shutdown game of chicken.
So what does that mean to taxpayers who haven't filed their tax returns yet? Nothing.
Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Doug Shulman has made it clear that while his agency will be short-staffed if the federal government runs out of money, the April 18]]></description>
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		<title>Most audits are by mail</title>
		<link>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/most-audits-are-by-mail/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bankrate.com/financing/taxes/most-audits-are-by-mail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 19:46:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Bell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[correspondence audits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax audit]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of folks fear tax filing time because they're afraid they'll end up answering questions from the Internal Revenue Service.
Yes, tax audits -- or examinations as the IRS likes to call them, are real. But they're not a problem for most of us.
The IRS 2010 Data Book says that in the last fiscal year it]]></description>
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